democrats want to build a state of their base and chuck schumer said something in dick durbin and number two person in the senate. the democrats that it would be a shame if we close down the government over the wall. what is a victory from the president? they can take a lot of things out of the supplemental. one thing he can say to the people who voted for him, i got this sick during. elizabeth: do think that they take out planned parenthood, defense spending cut defense spending, you think this ll be a sticking point? i pose this question to you in a commercial break yet they don t really have much to lose of a government shutdown. am i right? you re absolutely right. they would almost welcome it. i look at the republican leadership in the house and senate. they don t want another guy on top of the affordable care acting. i think the president coming in now, i am mighty reading here, so by definition i could be 90%
on immigration, regulatory reform. we re now at a dozen congressional review act piece afc legislation that have been signed that have had i think a very, very positive impact and will have a positive impact on job creation. i ve noted before to you that only one had ever been signed in history before. that s a private significant achievement for this president and obviously, when you look at the confirmation of neil gorsuch to the supreme court, it s another significant one. we ll spend time talking about this next week. but i think we re very pleased with what the president s accomplished as he noted yesterday in wisconsin, the amount he s done overall has been significant. zeke? reporter: two different topics. first, on the potential for a government shutdown next week in the cr. the budget supplemental the white house requested a month or so ago included defense spending
popped up. they clearly believe this is a weak point for the president. look, what i think the president talked about is a balanced plan. as he talked about last night, we re going to have to make some tough spending cuts. we re going to need to ask mitt romney and others, including barack obama, to pay their fair share, to pay a little bit more. certainly the president talked about taxpayers and do this in a way to allow us to invest in important things, like education and things that we know will grow our economy. mitt romney wants to start the deficit conversation with $5 trillion new romney tax cut and a defense spending cut that the pentagon doesn t want. higher taxes on the middle class and drastic cut to the important investments. i want to shift to libya here. here was the president on libya. secretary clinton has done an extraordinary job but she works for me.
it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. a deadly past 48 hours in afghanistan. new details of two attacks. an effort to derail the transition of power there. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack wednesday that left four americans dead, including senior members of an army brigade after an in-ssurgent detonated a suice vest. thomas kennedy and kevin griffin and walter gray were killed along with an american aid worker and afghan interpreter. and nato confirms that three u.s. service members were killed when a sgun man wearing an afghan forces uniform opened fire in the southern helmand province this morning. no claim of responsibility there yet. new details are expected and well be live at the pentagon at the bottom of the hour with more information for you. and now let s take you inside the wisconsin temple where six peoe were killed, three others wounded by a gunman on sunday. this video shot exclusively by cnn showing
i ll ask about red hot democrats. stay here and hear how it plays out. i m wolf blitzer here in the situation room. we ve been expecting the house to vote on raising the debt limit. but it has not happened yet. the debt deadline is looming larger than ever. the deal would raise the debt limit $900 billion in the short term and green light spending cuts of roughly the same amount over ten years. offset dollar for dollar by more spending cuts. there s a lot of huge ifs involved in making all of that happen. let s go to capitol hill. kate baldwin is standing by. what are we toll about when it will take place? of. the timing is very fluid, wolf. the question is, will this compromise bill pass the house? speaker john boehner in a press conference wouldn t answer the question when i asked him if he had enough votes. but the paul ryan seemed pretty confident this afternoon. listen to him. some have various concerns, whether it s going to prevail. i think we have a majority o