after piece of red meat to the right-wing lion that seems to dominate his caucus. we re not going to divulge. we re going to solve this problem, one way or another. countdown to crisis. your financial future hanging in the balance. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, an extraordinary day on capitol hill today. the house passes the boehner bill and the senate properly slaps it down. senate majority leader harry reid held a news conference speaking on tonight s vote. senator murray asked to be excused cause of a family situation. all good. her husband s here. tonight a bipartisan majority in the senate rejected boehner s short-term plan. clearly, we re seeing something we ve seen a lot here in the senate. this time the country s attention is focused on it, a filibuster. a filibuster to from william ford on this legislation. a proposal that i put forward is a compromise. we changed it even more today. we would have changed it more, but as i indicated on the fl
i don t see that. we have to remember this has been ginned up by the advocates for this kind of a policy. laura: i think the markets dropping that s just self-fulfilling prove. that s some indicator that people that didn t sell didn t lose any money. a week from now we will see how that actually looks. the language about default has been false language from the beginning. default now means in the minds of american people because all this debate that s gone on at the president level at tim geithner s level, at the leadership level has been about default being the first day that we run out of borrowing authority. default is if the united states doesn t service its debt. that just requires the first dime on each dollar coming in to service american debt. that s all it is. laura: steve, you and i have been warring together on the same side for how many years on so many issues from life to, you know, economy. we have people like charles krauthammer, george will, mike pence, colonel
for this kind of a policy. laura: i think the markets dropping that s just self-fulfilling prove. that s some indicator that people that didn t sell didn t lose any money. a week from now we will see how that actually looks. the language about default has been false language from the beginning. default now means in the minds of american people because all this debate that s gone on at the president level at tim geithner s level, at the leadership level has been about default being the first day that we run out of borrowing authority. default is if the united states doesn t service its debt. that just requires the first dime on each dollar coming in to service american debt. that s all it is. laura: steve, you and i have been warring together on the same side for how many years on so many issues from life to, you know, economy. we have people like charles krauthammer, george will, mike pence, colonel allen west, paul ryan, bill crystal, all these guys who i think they are conserva
is there any real reason to believe here, ed, that one of the reasons congress will not vote to put the economy in the black because the economy is in the hands of the black. that seems extraordinarily harsh. but the reality is, there seems to be no logical or reasonable answer or response to the notion other than they want to deny this democrat and this particular president the victory of having the ability to forth consensus here around the reality of american debt. are you suggesting that there s no way the president can get any kind of a victory out of this working with republicans for the good of the country? they just won t give it to him? they just will not. they refuse to see the legitimacy and authority of the president, even when he agrees with some things he agrees with, they take it off the table. what about joe walsh circulating a petition to get 100 signatures, they re not going to get anything passed in the house. think about what the
raise that debt ceiling under george w. bush. is there any real reason to believe here, ed, that one of the reasons congress will not vote to put the economy in the black because the economy is in the hands of the black. that seems extraordinarily harsh. but the reality is, there seems to be no logical or reasonable answer or response to the notion other than they want to deny this democrat and this particular president the victory of having the ability to forth consensus here around the reality of american debt. are you suggesting that there s no way the president can get any kind of a victory out of this working with republicans for the good of the country? they just won t give it to him? they just will not. they refuse to see the legitimacy and authority of the president, even when he agrees with some things he agrees with, they take it off the table. what about joe walsh circulating a petition to get 100 signatures, they re not going to get anything passed in the house. thi