republicans already sniping about a democratic choice for the congressional super committee. democrats have named senators patty murray, max baucus, and john kerry to the debt panel. and republicans are complaining that murray shouldn t get a seat because she s too political. she s in charge of fund raising for democratic senate candidates. and 12 lawmakers are supposed to be named to the committee by tuesday. they re there to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by late november. 10,000 extra police officers kept a lid on the violence in london last night. but rioting and looting spread to birmingham, manchester, and liverpool. police will have all tools available to stop what he says are the thugs as he put it. a cnn ireporter describes the scene. you can hear at least ten of them. sounds like i m in beirut or some i don t know, some middle eastern conflict. and i have never witnessed this in the uk. i could have never imagined this. this looks like the gaza stri
than enthusiastic in the rose garden. congress has now approved a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert a default that would have devastated our economy. reporter: who decides what to cut? most of the deficit reduction will be proposed by a so-called super committee. it s an unusual process. a dozen members of congress who in november will present the entire congress with a package of $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. congress will not get to haggle. it will be take it or leave it. an unprecedented way of trying to make tough budget decisions. the normal way we do business was adequate, we wouldn t have a $14 trillion debt. reporter: and there is major incentive for the super committee to come up with these cuts. a sword of damocles hanging over their heads which previous committees have not had. almost 20 years ago, former congressman mike castle worked on a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform. its recommendations went nowhere.
is about to destroy the country. reporter: the bottom line is as a result of the tea party, the days of big spending in washington are over. and if today s vote and the weeks preceding us seem very, very difficult it probably will pale in comparison to the tough budget decisions that lie ahead. alisyn: this is far from over. what does this mean to you? in a moment from the senate budget committee. republican jeff sessions out of alabama. mark warner of virginia will follow him. we ll ask those senators how they plan to vote today. unemployment 9.2%. alisyn: one of the nation s top union lead first warning the
decisions should be made. and this budget allows them to do that. bill: you know, that s the one thing we heard in ohio, when we talked to the governor, john kasich, his whole idea was to return power to the local level so they can make budget decisions there on the local level, and that s pretty much the same thing you re saying, also. we do expect lawsuits. i don t know if that can impede what came down yesterday. but in the ten seconds we have left, when will the state employees in wisconsin be affected? you know, that s up to the secretary of administration, mike kihch, who will make a determination how to implement the changes under collective bargaining. bill: could be days, weeks, months, depending upon the challenges. it could be. bill: scott, thank you, we re going to keep an eye on it, a major decision coming down yesterday. thank you for your time this morning. good to be with you. alisyn: a former militia leader on the run, armed and considered to be very dangerous. w
president obama is urging the senate to confirm his new nominee for chairman of the joints chief of staff as swiftly as possible. it s a big unusual for the general who served as army chief of staff for only about a month. the president stressed that he will have his work cut out for him, filling the job held by admiral mullin. we have much to do, from bringing our troops home from iraq to beginning to reduce our forces in afghanistan this summer and in transitioning to afghan lead, from defeating al qaeda, to defecting the libyan people. all of this as we make difficult budget decisions while we make our military the hardest fighting force in the world. let s bring in dan lothian. dan, everybody expected that the president would pick the vice chair, james cartright, and instead he picked dempsey.