democrats or women, pushing more democrats into office in the fall. what do you think about that. that s a concern. i understand that concern and that s why it s challenging to formulate those questions and do it in a careful, thoughtful way. no question that that s a deficit challenge, but at the same time, remember, the democrats have four women on the committee as well. so there are women on the committee as well and clearly, you know, the democrat members are going to have every opportunity to offer their questions as well. neil: do you think that republicans, given the weight and the power of this committee, should err on the side of trying to find as many females to put on it as possible? well, again, you know, look. we want to always have people on there based on their qualifications and their merits and obviously people have to get elected to the senate, but of course you want a mix, but it always comes back to people getting elected to office and being there on a meritorio
supported his proposals were in congress. its what he believes is a fair and balanced approach to the deficit challenge. the white house says the burden of cutting the deficit falls on the backs of the poor and middle class. what is the white house saying. the plan is growing criticism from the right and the left. john boehner says the cuts are needed to save programs and shouldn t be conditioned on tax hikes in a written statement boehner criticized the december deficit proposal the budget was maced on, said the president s last offer was significantly skewed in favor of higher taxes and included only modest entitlement savings. and bernie sanders, who caucus caucuses with democrats, says the budget a break s the president s promise not to reduce social security, he says, quote, millions of working
she s 77 years old and she said time has come. she was okay with it. reporter: she s had quite a long time of being the most decorated olympian ever, hasn t she? upsteps michael phelps and it was widely expected to happen. it had been disappointing to this point but he is now the most successful olympian ever after picking up the silver and gold in the relay. the big question here, does that mean he s the greatest olympian ever because he has the most medals, is he the greatest or should that be measured in terms of long he havety or impact on the sport and legacy he leaves. there hasn t been much time to celebrate, he s been back in the pool this morning for the 200 meter and he got through those fairly easily. we re looking at the tweet sent from the president to michael phelps and it goes like this. con grats to michael phelps tore breaking the all-time olympic record. you made your country proud and signed it b.o. for barack obama. i m so tired because i stayed up to
this pros he united in our belief the nation s fiscal crisis must be addressed and that we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve. that statement, issued in congress. the super committee must not end. the president said if congress tries to get around the automatic cuts, called for in the law that created the super committee, he will veto it. my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. there will be no easy off ramps on this one. we need to keep the pressure up to compromise. not turn off the pressure. the super committee s failure has important consequences. stocks fell sharply as investors added washington s gridlock over america s debt to an already long list of worries about economic growth at home and europe s financial crisis. plus, there are worries of a possible additional downgrade for the u.s. and the legislation that created that super committee calls for across
focusing their attention on mitt romney. paul is standing by. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com as controversy swirls around him, republican front-runner, herman cain, went behind closed doors with republican lawmakers on capitol hill. just a brief respite from the storm that has blown over previously undisclosed sexual allegations. earlier today, cain suggested some sort of conspiracy is at work, but he insisted he will prevail. there are factions trying to destroy me personally as well as this campaign. but there is a force greater, there s a force at work here that is much greater than those that would try to destroy me and destroy this campaign. and this journey to the white house. and that force is called the voice of the people. cain may face a new round of controversy. one of his accusers apparently wants to go public. brian todd has been investigating this part of the story. what are you learn