the dow down almost 200 points around all the debt discussion in washington. the front page of the wall street journal, markets swoon on debt fear. plus a day after republicans invoked ben affleck movie the town in the debt debate, the white house raises the stakes going with sophie s choice. we ll have the latest on the ongoing imdb fight a bit later. but first let s get to the news, here at 30 rock in new york city. with just five days to go before the august 2nd deadline, the house is expected to vote today on speaker john boehner s plan to raise the debt ceiling. house republican leaders also plan to hold a news conference later today to talk about that vote. it comes after boehner released an amended version of his bill which originally was questioned by the nonpartisan congressional budget office, but now cbo says boehner s revised proposal will cut deficits by $917 billion
the dow down almost 200 points around all the debt discussion in washington. the front page of the wall street journal, markets swoon on debt fear. plus a day after republicans invoked ben affleck movie the town in the debt debate, the white house raises the stakes going with sophie s choice. we ll have the latest on the ongoing imdb fight a bit later. but first let s get to the news, here at 30 rock in new york city. with just five days to go before the august 2nd deadline, the house is expected to vote today on speaker john boehner s plan to raise the debt ceiling. house republican leaders also plan to hold a news conference later today to talk about that vote. it comes after boehner released an amended version of his bill which originally was questioned by the nonpartisan congressional budget office, but now cbo says boehner s revised proposal will cut deficits by $917 billion