to impose that today and spending at 24% and spending cuts at $1 trillion in one year, the super committee is having trouble getting it over ten years. be specific about the trillions of dollars in cuts. what we are talking about doing is having a balanced budget by 2020. this plan does that. we will release a report on thou get that done. it s not that we will do it all in one year. we will do it over a period of the next years and 2020 is the target that we are focused in on. i don t have a problem in the world by saying that we will have the budget balanced by 2020 and we will travel across the country and pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. i will give you one example of how i lay out $100 billion that
into chaos. barbie, what is is it like right now? what s happening? barbie, can you hear me? all right. okay. barbie, i think i ve got you now. tell me, explain to me what s happening tonight. reporter: right now i m standing in the epicenter of all of the violence we saw earlier. and really right now the protesters are gone, they ve been carted away. but it s really a waste land. right in front of me is a burnt out police vehicle. there are cobblestones all over the place. there s so much broken class it s like walking on frozen snow. there s so much debris on the ground. the smell of tear gas in the air. many other protesters have been carted a eed away. lots of them have started trouble in new parts of rome. we have 70 confirmed injuries, 40 of which are police officers. 30 which are protesters that are confirmed injuries. there were a lot of other people who didn t seek hospitalization that were injured either by, you know, flying glass from these broken bottles and thi
good friend and colleague, alina cho. and i must say, t.j., that s a spectacular back drop. i m jealous you re out there. good morning, everybody. i m alina cho at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. i know you, t.j., and there s a lot to talk about there. there is a lot to talk about. and many in the republican gop are giving us even more to talk about. now, of course, you think nevada and you re sthig about fabulous nevada, you re thinking about fabulous las vegas and the las vegas strip and what happens in vegas stays in veg crass. you know what they re thinking about here, know? they re thinking about the unmroit rate, one of the highest in the country. 147 of 2% unemployment. we are hearing from a lot of people here who are hurting. they have a message for you. annoy, i can give you statistices and tell you a lot of that, but a lot of them, they can tell you bet just by looking at the strip. also, something happening right now on the other side of the country we want to
and now, this is the man who allegedly strapped that thing in place in hopes of prying money out her parents. paul doug peters, age 51, an australian finance executive. paul doug peters arrested yesterday outside of louisville, kentucky, by a local fbi swat team in connect with the case that has gripped australia for nearly two weeks. let me take you back to august 3rd. this was the scene in a wealthy enclave outside of sidney where this sl-year-old spent a heldish ten hours. she was fearing this mechanism would explode. it turned out to be a hoax. but the assailant s demands were very real. he wanted money from madeline parents. the demands were that it was financial, demands made. again, i can t go into too much detail on exactly what they were and that they needed to be some follow-up contact. and further instructions would be given. like i said, a truly bizarre story. let s go to susan candiotti outside o the federal court in lieu louisville. i know you want to talk a
spending problem and deal with the fact we have made promises to the american people that our kids and grandchild cannot afford. in addition we worked with our members and listened to the american people who have a real interest making sure that we don t get into the spot again and we ought to have a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. i think if you look at the structure of the balanced budget issues in the agreement it gives us the best shot we have had in the 20 years i ve been here to build support for a balanced budget amendment to the constitution to put the kind of fiscal handcuffs on this congress that are needed. we have been operating under a balanced budget amendment we never would have gotten ourselves into the mess we re in. but this is important for our fiscal future and also important for the fact that our economy needs to get going.