president obama just signed the 2011 budget deal and kept the government running but vowing to get serious about america s fiscal crisis, house republicans today pushed through a blueprint that would slash spending by trillions and trillions of dollars in the next decade and and vowing to dig in and defend what they are calling the sake kret contract with the american people. let s go straight to capitol hill, our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, is standing by. this all promises, dana, based on the early rhetoric, to get pretty ugly. reporter: it already is. republicans are saying that they should be rewarded for offering bold ideas to tackle some issues like the deficit that congress has let spiral for years but dealing with medicare, trying to overhaul that, that is rough political terrain for republicans.
i think it s time now to any dictator who is killing his own people should accountable. you know, there should be sanctions put on his regime, there should be very strong moves towards preventing them from doing that. imt not saying change the government. it s the syrian government s problem to solve, but don t kill the people. there are videos of army people stepping on the normal people. it s a horrible situation, and i m grateful to you for speaking out on it across the board. thanks for the work that you ve done. thanks. thanks for coming into the situation room as well. you can find out his take on egypt s future is more specifically on the economic future of egypt. right now go to facebook.com/krfacebook.com/cn
revolution in egypt. is he happy with where the country is now my internet with wyle gonan. the mother of one victim says the killer taunted her using her daughter s own cell phone. breaking news and political headlines all straight ahead. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. they re weapons so brutal they ve been banned by much of the world, but now there s a disturbing new charges by human rights watch that moammar gadhafi s forces are firing cluster munitions in misrata. they call the alleged use appalling. a libyan government spokesman reached by cnn calls the charge completely untrue. nevertheless, misrata has been under brutal attacks for weeks in what some western leaders
now. otherwise, it s over. and then and he s got certain points he s going to make to them as well. this is one of those speeches that all of us know as they cover presidents, they work for hours and days. every sentence is carely, carefully weighed for what it could mean, the symbolism and direct point and i m sure those will have the knew wants as well. every problem of the world comes into your inbox. the middle east is on fire right now. i think we have to understand that this does set a precedent. does it set a precedent? the government of bahrain has fired on its people. the government of syria has
of this. we do know it s one of the most densely populated countries on the planet. it is. at the same time, japan is educati educationally advanced. disaster preparedness is part of japanese culture more than any other credit in the world, i would estimate. if there was a society prepared for something like this, it would be japan at the same time, we see despite all the preparations they ve made, they ve reached out for help as shay should. the world has responded. china has responded very constructively, i would say. the japanese political culture before the earthquake very bickering and not making progress on key issues has unified from the national to local level. that s been very important to see. in the words of the american president saying the america will be with japan until this is dealt with was very reassuring for the japanese people. what s the short and long term impact. you had a very weak government