chiliian mine? 31 of the 50 miners are asking for a half million dollars each. they say it isn t about money but about safety. the miners say they want to make sure something like this never happens again. and minnesota state government could be back up and running in just a few days. minnesota s democratic governor cut a deal with republicans to end the two-week long government shutdown. the deal involves selling bonds rather than raising taxes and making up the budget deficit. lawmakers still have to vote on it in special session. let s take you to washington now, live pictures of capitol hill, sources tell cnn s jessica yellin that a meeting is going on down the street from the white house about raising the debt ceiling limits. during the president s weekly address today, he again said he wants both tax hikes and cuts in popular entitlement programs on the table. it will take a balanced approach, shared sacrifice and a willingness to make unpopular choices on all our
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
we begin with the resignation of a key executive in the rupert murdoch media empire. rebekah brooks is out. many people were outraged when brooks kept her job after the newspaper was shut down for scandalous reporting tactics. and as brooks steps down, the investigations ramp up. the fbi now investigating the murdoch empire right here in the united states. lawmakers demanding the probe amid reports that murdoch s journalists hacked the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. susan candiotti in new york with the details now. susan? reporter: hi, kyra. good morning to you. yes, this investigation is now 24 hours old. as fbi tries to figure out how they are going to approach this. all of it started, kyra, with a report in a british tabloid that a private investigator here in new york, that there was an attempt to hire him to hack into phone records of 9/11 victims and families, as well as reach out into the voice mails of 9/11 victims and families. the fbi, that appear
opportunity to do something big. we have a chance to stabilize america s finances for a decade, for 15 years or 20 years. if we re willing to seize the moment. what that would require would be some shared sacrifice and a balanced approach that says we re going to make significant cuts in domestic spending. and i have already said i m willing to take down domestic spending to the lowest percentage of our overall economy since dwight eisenhower. it also requires cuts in defense spending. and i ve said that in addition to the $400 billion that we ve already cut from defense spending we re willing to look for hundreds of billions more. it would require us taking on health care spending. and that includes looking at medicare and finding ways that we can stabilize the system so that it is available not just for this generation but for future generations. and it would require revenues. it would require, even as we re asking the person who needs a student loan or the senior citizen o
welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. i m soledad o brien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. thank you. we have a lot to do today. let s get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says it s now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims phones. a report in another british tabloid, the mirror quoting a source who says news of the world, the newspaper which folded under the pressure of the hacking scandal, hired an investigator to try to tap the phones. now lawmakers, law enforcement, and 9/11 families are all demanding the truth. susan candiotti following the latest for us on this and breaking, one casualty of the news international, rebekah brooks has resigned. the question is, does this mean that the walls are crumbling at news corp. it s too early to say, bulls this is a crack in the wall. she was a prot