i montessa brewer back in the saddle covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news. the judge in the roger clemens perjury trial has just declared a mistrial. nbc s pete williams is in washington, d.c. what s the judge saying about this trial, pete? reporter: well, the judge has said he ll decide at a hearing on september 2nd, almost two months from now, where we go from here. this trial had just started yesterday with opening statements from both sides and the prosecutors had begun calling witnesses, but the judge had told the prosecutors in advance that certain evidence was off-limits and one of the things that was off-limits was related to testimony by a friend and former teammate of roger clemens named andy pettitte who had played with him on two major league teams. andy pettitte has said that roger clemens told him he used human growth hormone. clemens says that pettitte is mistaken. what s at issue here is a legal document, sort of sworn statement
here is senator republican mitch mcconnell on president obama. he really gave us three bad choices. higher taxes, smoke and mirrors, or default. and we refused to accept any of them. republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the obama economy. we won t be see duesed into calling a bad deal a good deal. and we won t let the white house full around with the full faith and credit after the yo united states. reporter: clearly mitch mcconnell is concerned whether a deal with be struck. one hopes behind closed doors in these meetings as they are trying to find common ground that perhaps the tone is a little better. in public it certainly does not sound like they are close to a deal. alisyn: it really doesn t. mike, there were a couple of different stories about what happened yesterday when the president walked out of the meetings. what have you been able to find out about that? reporter: that s right, it depends on who you ask. after almosafter two hours
bare bones bargain. if not, payments to critters, bill payments, you name it, there is not enough income to cover all that. every month we come up $125 billion short. if we cannot borrow to bridge the cap, 40% of the monthly obligations could not be paid, and that could include social security checks due to go out on august 3rd. the stakes we just laid out are monumental, so both sides have to give ground and risk their jobs for the good of the country. what is so hard about that, right? joining me with their insights on conflict resolution are cnn contributor, pete dominic, and family law attorney, mrs. winestein. what does it take for two entrenched parties to agree on a deal that both need? well, you know, the obvious is that you take the emotion out of the room and you try to deal with the practical. what we deal with is the practical and not the legal when we re trying to negotiate this. they re trying to take the politics out of the room and get to a solution that can
correspondent. here we are unveiling the cover as we do every week of the national journal. let s talk about these negotiations. we ve got he said/he said, basically. you have two sides accusing each other of storming out. it clearly got a little bit testy. it got testy we re told cantor interrupted the president several times. eric cantor was persistent, i m sure. eric cantor believes earlier this week when the president invited him to bring to the group what he interpreted the biden talks produced as far as medicare cuts and he did so, the next morning he was attacked by senator charles schumer of new york, who is not a participant in these talks, as being amoral. eric cantor s staff and the majority leader interpreted that as being set up, invited him to talk about the cuts. next day s attack by a prominent democrat on the senate floor. that did not create a good atmosphere as far as eric cantor was concerned. he was persistent yesterday with the president on spe
it s the first major attack in mumbai since 2008, m me than 160 people were killed in 60 hours of terror. blamed on militants based in pakistan. these latest bombs have been describe as relatively crude and possibly the work of local militants. whoever s behind them, they ve shown that india s largest city is still vulnerable. caroline hawley, bbc news. the president and congressional negotiators return to the debt negotiations table today after yesterday s meeting ended in confrontation. those in the meeting said that president obama announced enough is enough, we have to be willing to compromise, before walking out of the room. the moody s rating service is threatening to downgrade the nation s credit rating because of this crisis. both sides really locking horns. new light is being shed on the problem of american kids and obesity. and two harvard doctors are weighing in. what they re saying about overweight children has just about everybody taking sides on this. ab