angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. that s why we re here today. because l.a. is not waiting on washington. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. on his way out of town friday, president obama called the two chairs of the super committee from air force one to tell them they needed to make a debt deal soon. that is not breaking news to panel members who have been spinning their wheels for nearly three months. we are not giving up hope until midnight on the 23rd. but wall street may have given up hope. according to cnbc, half of the investors polled by citigroup don t expect the committee to reach a deal in time. co-chair jeb hensarling joins me here in washington on his first sunday interview since being appointed to the committee. i want to show you one more poll here of people, do you expect that the committee will reach its goal? and this is a george washington university battleground poll and politico. yes, 21%. no, 69%. so, you going to get this
assessing the presidential field with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. and america s cities, our first installment today with los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. that s why we re here today. because l.a. is not waiting on washington. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. on his way out of town friday, president obama called the two chairs of the super committee from air force one to tell them they needed to make a debt deal soon. that is not breaking news to panel members who have been spinning their wheels for nearly three months. we are not giving up hope ened i hope my democratic colleagues aren t until midnight on the 23rd. but wall street may have given up hope. according to cnbc, half of the investors polled by citigroup don t expect the committee to reach a deal in time. co-chair jeb hensarling joins me here in washington on his first sunday interview since being appointed to the committee. so we appreciate it. i w
just as it began. will he stay or will he go? that s the big issue in the birth place of democracy as the greek prime minister, george papandreou and his government faces a crucial confidence vote in parliament later today. the outcome of the vote may have seemed a bit predictable just 24 hours ago. now it seems it s far from certain. after mr. papandreou backed away from a referendum on a debt deal he announced days earlier. all of this comes as leaders of the g20 are gathered. it s sure to be dominated with talk about gross s future and the escalating crisis that s gripping the euro zone. relief surrounding that possible aboutturn on the greek referendum is moving stocks but also the bond markets, because ten-year greek bonds are down just a little bit today, still yielding around 2 %. let s go live to athens where we can join jim bolden. the day is young over there in the greek capital. let s have a quick look at what we could see coming out of greece and this confidence v
we re going to look at some of the tax breaks we ve been giving to individuals and use that tool to spare social security, spare medicare and also create the kind of revenue that is going to allow us to have a real jobs program. i think the 67% out there that are saying they don t believe they can do the job, they have been watching and not heard anything different since the inception of the committee. that same poll said 48% of people said the debt solution should include only spending cuts, 39%, a balanced approach cutting cuts and tax increases. half of the country believes we should get there via spending cuts. is that not the public speaking out as well? i think that that s been the tenner that has been set from the beginning. from the very beginning, nine months ago when we had the struggles over the budget resolution, debt ceiling, it has
here it s agony of waiting. a father who is trying to find out whether his two sons are still alive in the rubble. before we talked to him he found out that they had found one of his sons dead and trying to bring him out now. you get a real sense from all the people standing here waiting to find out news about loved ones in these numerous buildings that have collapsed as they see pieces of their lives, furniture, bits and pieces and all they want to know is that their loved ones are safe. they re using sound checks, dogs, hundreds of rescue workers mobilized to van where i am and 200 more than 200 people killed in both. that is the death toll as we know it now. it could well rise, of course, as the search goes on. monita? all right, diana, thank you very much for that. we ll continue to check in with diana for the very latest out of turkey. that is the top story from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning f