that we re going to increase taxes. it s counterintuitive to believe that you increase taxes on those individuals and entities you re expecting to create jobs. a unique opportunity where the entire conference got to convey what they re listening to across america. the president laid out some debt discussion, but from the conference he heard a about jobs. he heard about unshackling the burden of regulation on the small business to get them working again from wisconsin to west virginia to members across the way. what i heard from this president, that he wanted to sit down and find real cuts now. he said there needed to be entitlement reform, and we will work with him towards those ends to direct where we create new jobs, put us on a new path to pay off the budget, on a balanced budget and pay down the debt as well. i want to thank the president and the speaker for bringing us together today for this important discussion. you know, every generation of
what s going on in our city that no one would take the time to help this drowning man. could we have done more when the gentleman became unconscious? certainly there s that opportunity for us to have gone out and do more. we re looking at that. alameda officials say they ll reinstate the water rescue training. 911 what s your emergency? i called a little bit ago. i found out my granddaughter has been taken. she has been missing. her mother finally admitted she s been missing. casey anthony s mother cindy breaks down on the stand in an orlando courtroom. the jury hears cindy anthony s 911 call to report her granddaughter caylee missing. she told the 911 operator her daughter s car smelled like a dead body. prosecutors say casey anthony killed her daughter and buried the body in nearby woods and then pretended that she was missing. sarah palin tops off a meeting with donald trump with a visit to the statue of liberty today. her i m not running for anything bus tour st
poll that came out last night and it shows that at this point, 70% of americans feel that this country is on the wrong track and they blame the people in washington, d.c. and when it comes to the president of the united states, his approval rating now, according to a washington post poll is at 47%. he has lost 4% in the last month. keep in mind that before he went out on the campaign trail this week, he sent out his treasury secretary tim geitner to the sunday talk shows and he said the startling statement that all of the republicans who are involved in this debt discussion, they ve all already told the president they re definitely going to vote to increase the debt ceiling. that was a strategic move, folks, to try and then put the blame back on the republicans when, in fact, some say no, in fact that s wrong. we re not going to vote to increase the debt limit. it will be interesting to see how this unfolds this week. if you have certain members of the tea party and the caucus an
says going to require a shift, it s going to send a message to the economy, to the american people, to the people that are hiring, you know, we ve gotten away from this debt discussion, now the time has come for job growth, economic initiatives, america leading once again, and i think the president has the inspirational ability to do this. jobs, jobs, jobs. all right. governor bill richardson, thank you so much for your time. we appreciate you stopping by. thank you. breaking news out of the afc. a precision air strike killed at least eight taliban militants believed to be responsible for shooting down a u.s. helicopter last weekend. that marked the single deadlys incident in the ten-year afghan war. let s bring in atiyyah who s in kabul. hi, veronica.
the dow down almost 200 points around all the debt discussion in washington. the front page of the wall street journal, markets swoon on debt fear. plus a day after republicans invoked ben affleck movie the town in the debt debate, the white house raises the stakes going with sophie s choice. we ll have the latest on the ongoing imdb fight a bit later. but first let s get to the news, here at 30 rock in new york city. with just five days to go before the august 2nd deadline, the house is expected to vote today on speaker john boehner s plan to raise the debt ceiling. house republican leaders also plan to hold a news conference later today to talk about that vote. it comes after boehner released an amended version of his bill which originally was questioned by the nonpartisan congressional budget office, but now cbo says boehner s revised proposal will cut deficits by $917 billion