boehner s plan has now checked harry reed s. today those same bean counters are saying, yep, reed s numbers are wrong as well. but they also say that when it s all said and done, reed s deficit cutting trumps boehner s by, listen to this, more a trillion dollars. reed s plan, ten years, $2.2 trillion in net debt reduction. meantime boehner s plan $850 billion. again, six days until default. so what about the white house here? no debt meetings, not today, at least not publicly on the president s schedule. so let s go to washington, to jane small she s a congressional correspondent of time magaz e magazine, friend of the show. glad to have you back on. help me understand this, we ll call it odd, this very odd moment between some house republicans that happened yesterday. some are vastly underwhelmed of the debt cutting plan of speaker john boehner. to get them together to rally around this, house leaders showed this clip from a gangster movie, jay newton-small, it s called t
he cited statistics appealing to bipartisanship and invoked the words of ronald reagan and also acknowledged how sharply divided washington is while trying to channel a bipartisan frustration among americans for what goes on in washington. take a look. i realize that a lot of the new members of congress and i don t see eye to eye on many issues. but we were each elected by some of the same americans for some of the same reasons. yes, many want government to start living within its means, and many are fed up with a system in which the debt seems stacked against middle class americans in favor of the wealthiest few. but do you know what people are fed up with most of all? they re fed up with a town where compromise has become a dirty word. they work all day long, many of them scraping by, just to put the american people might have voted that they didn t vote for a dysfunctional government. i am asking you to make your voice heard. if you want a balanced approach to reduci
explosives the size of a grapefruit. the surgeon would open the abdominal cavity and literally implant the explosive device in and amongst the internal organs. right in there? right in between the intestines, the liver and the stomach. reporteter: u.s. officials say the implanted belly bombs are the latest design from al qaeda s 28-year-old master bombmaker, ibrahim asiri. he s seen here from the back hugging his own brother who he sent on a suicide mission two years ago against the saudi arabian intelligence chief with a bomb in his large intestine. the bomb exploded prematurely, sparing the saudi prince but killing asiri s brother. asiri is also believed to have been the mastermind of a plot against an american passenger jet with an underwear bomb. and the plot against fed ex cargo planes with bombs hidden in printer cartridges. asiri seems to be fixated on bizarre ways of making bombs that he could slip into the united states. reporter: officials say this latest scheme,
confirmed the queen s visit to ireland will go ahead as planned despite an unexpected bomb being found near dublin. cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson joins us here in our london studio. we ve been talking about the dissident republican groups that might be responsible behind these devices that have been found. what do we know about them? how large of a group are they? reporter: we know they are the remnants of the i.r.a. that went on a cease-fire and then signed up to a peace agreement and politicians are now in government in northern ireland. the remnants were dissatisfied with that deal and they, over the past few years, particularly re-organized themselves, coalesced with other dissident republican groups. and have become much better at making bombs, at placing bombs, targeting and killing policemen and security personnel in northern ireland. and making their threat much bigger than it was right after the peace deal was signed.
there s no bail for dominique strauss-kahn. one of the world s top bankers is behind bars on sex assault charges. targeting tripoli, the area near moammar gadhafi s compound is hit again. in another night of nato air strikes. and thousands of flooded homes, thousands of people evacuated as the mississippi river levels continue to rise. we begin this hour in ireland where authorities say they have intercepted and defused a bomb on a bus headed for dublin, just hours before an historic visit to the capital by britain s queen elizabeth. irish police tell cnn the military found an explosive device not far from dublin late monday after someone phoned in a warning. police are now working to find out who placed it on the bus. a few hours ago officials say they got another call warning about a second device. when they checked it out, it turned out to be a hoax. well, the british government says the queen s visit to ireland will go ahead as planned. cnn s finnuala sweeney joins