i m drew griffin. happy to be here. thank goodness it s friday, right. talks on the verge of collapse this morning. with weeks to go before the nation supposedly can no longer pay off its debt a key republican walked away from the talks hosted by the vice president biden. dan lothian following the president live in pittsburgh this morning, dan? yes, that key republican eric cantor walking out of those talks. you know, this is, obviously, a critical moment in the 7 week old talks and republicans are blaming democrats for talking about tax hikes. speaker boehner saying tax hikes are completely off the table. you heard the president while on the road last night several fund-raisers bring up the point that there needs to be a balanced approach in order to reach a solution here. the president also pointing out that over the next several weeks, this whole situation was really going to start heating up and those were the words that the president used. but, what the administrat