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getting the mage? we've got new polling that says all of that. and this is important. recent polling may also explain why we haven't got an deal yet. we'll tell you what we're talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. >> good morning, speaker boehner's office. how may i help you? >> a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er's office reporting as many as 300 people on ho...

boehner's plan has now checked harry reed's. today those same bean counters are saying, yep, reed's numbers are wrong as well. but they also say that when it's all said and done, reed's deficit cutting trumps boehner's by, listen to this, more a trillion dollars. reed's plan, ten years, $2.2 trillion in net debt reduction. meantime boehner's plan $850 billion. again, six days until default. so what about the white house here? no debt meetings, not today, at least not publicly on the president's schedule. so let's go to washington, to jane small she's a congressional correspondent of ...

veterans group there at pennsylvania avenue being briefed on what could happen to their ranks if the debt ceiling is not raised. also cnn is learning some states making contingency plans. california specifically taking out a temporary $5 billion loan just to help pay its bills in case congress fails to act and turmoil in the credit market makes it difficult to borrow money after august 2nd. take a walk with me. i want to look at what exactly is proposed here. we have two different plans, two different bills on the table. one from democratic leader, senate majority leader harry reid, ...

good evening everyone. breaking news, president obama's primetime call for a deal to end the debt crisis and house speaker john boehner's response. the speech is coming with two competing proposals on the table. one from senate democrats and the other from house republicans, neither of which is looking very likely to pass. meantime, seven days until the government runs out of money and rating agencies are threatening to downgrade the nation's credit even if a deal is reached. even if a deal is reached they may downgrade the credit. it's triple-a, that's nearly as good as cash or gold...

he cited statistics appealing to bipartisanship and invoked the words of ronald reagan and also acknowledged how sharply divided washington is while trying to channel a bipartisan frustration among americans for what goes on in washington. take a look. >> i realize that a lot of the new members of congress and i don't see eye to eye on many issues. but we were each elected by some of the same americans for some of the same reasons. yes, many want government to start living within its means, and many are fed up with a system in which the debt seems stacked against middle class america...