market seems skeptical this week s eu summit will amount to much. german officials knocking down the idea of eurozone debt as long as individual states decide on government spending. and what was behind the botched facebook ipo? well, overconfidence and arrogance on the part of nasdaq staffers. that s what the nasdaq ceo says. shares of facebook, just about five bucks away from the ipo price. a decision could come as early as today on the health care law. the big consideration is whether congress has the power to require americans to purchase health insurance. the court could strike down to full law, uphold it in its entirety or repeal only portions of law. that comes at a little after 10:00 today. do you have a battle plan? i was telling david, let s say home depot, they said on the conference call, if the law is upheld, it s going to cost us a lot of money. you have a stock at $52, you could buy a call that struck not that deep. it would be it s part of the s&p, i
fail the country. bill: fail the country. pennsylvania senator pat toomy is a member of the supercommittee and sir, good morning to you from the hill. good morning, bill. bill: is ir skin bowles right, will this committee fail snerk. i certainly hope not. look, it s letting late, no question about that, time is getting short, but the clock hasn t run out yet and we are meeting every day, at least in groups, if not the entire committee. and i think most of us really want to accomplish something here, so i think it s too late to count this out. bill: where is the rub, senator? too soon to count this out. well, look, the rub is the same as it s been throughout congress. there are some of us who believe that and frankly, if you listened to the testimony yesterday, the message that came across, very clearly, from each of the witnesses, is that it is the big entitlement programs that are driving this entire problem, and specifically the health care component. we have progra
23%. that is about his number. newt gingrich and rick perry coming in third and fourth, with 10 and 8% respectfully. jon: this poll largely conducted before the sexual harrassment allegations hit the news anyway. one of the victims is trying to cancel the confidentiality agreement so she can cancel her story. jenna: the president also gaining in the polls. his approval numbers rise 6 percentage points from 47% since last month. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in washington. there you are, carl. let s talk about cain first of all as we mentioned, a little bit of disclaimer these polls taken before what has transpired over the last couple days. talk about the progress for his campaign so far. reporter: they re trying to put the whole story about the sexual harrassment allegations behind them. today mr. cain is campaigning in virginia. he had a high-tech meeting earlier this morning. he will talk health care today. he will have meetings on the hill with repu
as you may know, the many has been busy with meetings over this debt ceiling. we re told unless it s raised by august 2nd, all hell will break loose on the economy. at least that s what many people will have you believe. nobody wants us to go without raising that debt ceiling. the president said he wants to make comments. here he is. hello, everybody. i m going to make a brief statement. i completed a meeting with all the congressional leaders from both chambers, from both parties. i have to say that i thought it was a very constructive meeting. people were frank. we discussed the various options available to us, everybody reconfirmed the importance of completing our work and raising the debt limit ceiling so that the full faith and credit of the united states of america is not impaired what we decided is staffsally with his as leadership will work during the weekend. i will reconvene congressional leaders here on sunday, with the expectation that at that point the parties
parts of the park are closed as officials there try to figure why it happened on thursday, officials there try to figure why it happened on thursday, july 7, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. i m david gregory in for matt today. a lot of anticipation this morning. orlando, florida, that s where casey anthony s sentencing hearing is being held this morning. she faces up to four years in prison for lying to investigators. given the nearly three years she been behind bars, some legal experts believe anthony could be sentenced a time already served and could walk free. the latest of a live report straight ahead. and george and cindy anthony s attorney speaks out for a live interview. jaycee dugard lived in con stand fear. she was held by phillip and nancy garrido. now she s opened up in her own words and why she never tried to escape. important health news. why are a growing number of older w