year, to keep the government runningment now comes the debt ceiling vote. euplt has a loose deadline. it would be undesirable if the debt ceiling was breached because the government would have to reorder spending. that urgency and deadline is what is forcing action. republicans i think have leverage here, they don't want to be blamed if the debt ceiling is breached or struck, if you will, but the president really can't afford to have this not be done, and he has said that some spending reductions will have to be made. the question is which ones and how much, and there is going to be an awesome battle over that in the weeks ahead, jenna. jenna: we'll see if they can actually get that battle into a confined time period. there seems there are an infinite amount of things to introduce in this debate. always nice to have you, brit hume on "happening now" johnston brand-new video into the fox newsroom showing the devastation left behind by severe storms that slammed the midwest leveling homes and all kinds of