reconsiders laying on the table. that s the house tonight passing h.r. 2560, better known as cut, cap and balance. now it s a republican and tea party sponsored measure calling for massive spending cuts, a spending cap, and congress passing a balanced budget amendment. only then would the debt limit be allowed to go up, ending the current crisis. the measure was passed with just five democratic votes. senate democrats say they ll defeat it. if somehow they fail, president obama says he ll veto it. in other words, it s doa which is why a lot of democrats are calling it a stunt and a waste of time. earlier today a bipartisan group of senators called the gang of six came out with a proposal of their own that is being taken seriously, including at the white house. and so for us today, democratic fors acknowledge that we ve got to deal with our long-term debt problems that arise out of our various entitlement programs. and for republican senators to acknowledge that, revenues
murdoch s protege rebekah brooks to show up tomorrow to answer questions. despite her arrest over the weekend, her spokesman says she will be there. she s denying she knew her reporters hacked phones for scoops while she was the newspaper s editor. rupert murdoch, chairman of news corp, and his son james are expected to testify alongside brooks tomorrow. they will appear before parliament s media committee. a heatwave hitting the middle of u.s. extremely high humidity makes it feel as hot as 117 degrees in some places. that heat is creeping east. brutal. i probably lost 10 pounds today. it s crazy. we are sweltering, and we re just asking for some relief here. houston is hot as blazes. stay put. stay cool. there s been a change of u.s. command in afghanistan today as well. general david petraeus leaving to become the cia director handed command of the afghan war to marine general john allen. allen served as a deputy at u.s. central command in tampa before getting that
captions by vitac www.vitac.com billy ray, how are you? i m doing great. how you doing, piers? my first question, did you ever have this terrible nagging feeling if you suddenly keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, the headlines would be, miley cyrus dad dies of an achey breaky heart? if that were the case, that s what it s going to read. there s no doubt about it. as ironic as my life is at times, that will probably be the way i go. you have had an extraordinarily checkered life. i was reading all about it the other day. just researching you. you ve had great highs. great lows. fair liberal dose of scandal and drama and everything else. how would you as you approach your 50th birthday. by the way, you have weathered much better than i have. as you approach it, how would you sum up your life? i would sum it up as for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. for me, there s never been anything in the middle. it s always been white hot or i
it s not evil. what on earth will bill maher say tonight? i want them to think i broke into the studio and made them mad. if i m not doing that, i m not doing my job. that s his show. this is my show everything from the president to the government going bust. morgan freeman and extraordinary 40 year career and work honoring nelson mandela, a man that hollywood calls the voice of god. i had to ask him to do this. this is piers morgan tonight. welcome. i feel like you re such an institutional guest for larry before that i the first time i had the pleasure of you here. great to be back in the time slot. i thought about the way we could start this. i think there s probably nothing more pertinent, i would say, than the state of america s debt. i want to play you a sexy topic. a sexy topic. probably, everyone talks about everything else at the moment. and the drama. the key issue, if north america goes bust, that s it. it s astounding to me we re actuall
somewhere chairman mao is smiling. president obama went on record of his account of how last night s turbulent meeting ended. you ll recall house majority leader eric cantor said the president sharply warned him not to call his bluff said i ll see you tomorrow and walked out of the cabinet room. no. look. at the end of the meeting after we d already met for a couple of hours, what i said to the group was what i think the american people feel, which is we have a responsibility to do the right thing. we shouldn t be overly partisan. we shouldn t be posturing. we should solve problems. well, whichever account rings true to you, today s meeting was the first to deal largely with revenue. we got late insight in a moment from jessica yellin and dploer yeah borger. but keeping them honest tonight, there s in polling you should know about that may surprise you showing what americans really think about raising taxes to close the budget gap. here s what republicans have been sayi