we ll act and do what s necessary to make sure we can maintain that commitment. we lookeddal all available options and we have no way to give congress more time to solve this problem. and we are running out of time. the eyes of the country are on us. and the eyes of the world are on us and we need to make sure we stand together and send a definitive signal. we are going to take the steps necessary to avoid default and also take advantage of this opportunity to make some progress in dealing with our long-term fiscal problems. we don t have much time. it s time we move. thank you very much. alisyn: despite all the rhetoric from republicans within democrats and the whites house. none of the sides appear much closer to a deal than they did a few weeks ago. what does the average joe and jane think about the attack ads? we are 15 months away from the election and still the negative ads are running fast and furious. we showed our vote ears bunch of
repeat. moody s warning yesterday should serve as a wakeup call to anyone who doubts that the consequences we are talking about are real. so it s time for all republicans to put the interests of american families ahead of this small group of ideologues within their party. alisyn: you have been listening to harry reid. here comes secretary tim geithner. thanks for giving me a chance to talk through these problems and how we solve them. there is unanimity in that room that we are a country that meets its obligations and pay our bills and we ll act and do what s necessary to make sure we can maintain that commitment. we looked at all available options and we have no way to give congress more time to solve this problem and we are running out of time. the eyes of the country are on us, and thize of the world are on us and we need to make sure we stand together and send a
care of these big issues in a way that will allow you to work within our physical means, but at the same time provide them with the opportunities that they need for the future. this back and forth, these battling press conferences day to day, the ongoing conversations that they ve been having, folks watching this at home have been terribly frustrated. my hope is we can get to a resolution on this very quickly. alisyn: sure, obviously everybody wants a resolution. americans are frustrated: doesn t it put the democrats in a bit of an untenable position to say, we are actually against a balanced budget? i think we need to clarify, democrats are not against the balanced budget. they are calling for a shared sacrifice. and the challenge is during the entire conversations about the debt ceiling, the debt and the deficit, what you ve seen are democrats putting things on the line, willing to deal things away that are politically challenging, but we haven t seen the same from the other side.
jail. got to have an arrest. call to order. reporter: you heard the guy in the back saying the lady has the floor, the lady has the floor. that wasn t the crowd, that was the mayor of quarter sited foster. he says look this is my meeting she has a right to speak. that went viral, a hundred thousand hits on youtube, people are outraged saying that they violated her 1st amendment right. they brought her out, they said they hurt her arm. the mayor by the way, he s out. the police chief is now running the town. the mayor says the reason he took over in the first place is because the town is corrupt, money was disappearing and he was trying to correct that, and the city council meeting was packed, people trying to get some answers, and instead they get hauled away. so this is not over yet. alisyn: what a mess. let st seep an eye on that. thanks, trace. meanwhile a lot of people still talking about the stunning verdict in the casey anthony trial, so what was it like to be
alisyn: what you are saying, it s all demagoguery. its even groalsd the entire country and all of capitol hill. clearly moody s and the a & p don t think it s demagoguery. they are losing confidence in america s ability to tackle the budget problems. you think nothing will happen if we don t raise the debt ceiling? i m not saying nothing will happen. i m saying we ll not default on the people that have loaned us money. we ll have to cut back on spending on these programs. barack obama is going have some to say, high speed rail on the table, student loans on the table, my green jobs, on the table. we are spending too much money. this is not a ref knew of problem, it s a spending problem. like barack obama s tax on these