a lot to get to. we start with our political headlines. the house and senate released their budgets. this week, it s the president s turn. planning to unveil it wednesday. dan pfeiffer talked about it this morning. seen y senior white house adviser. based on my bracket, i shouldn t be in the predictions business. a good chance if the republicans particularly in the house take a my way or the highway, we won t get a deal. simple as that. the chinese government expressed today grave outrage, a rising grave concern, rising tensions between north and south korea. china is north korea s biggest ally. south korea is expecting a possible missile launch from the north by this wednesday. senator lindy grahsey graham tat on meet the press this morning. a provocation, it won t be business as usual by south korea. i could see a major war happenings in the north koreans overplay their hand this time because the republicans, and south korea, the united states and whole region is
individuals to risk starting enterprises here in hiring people if they think america will become greece. we will have to get serious about cutting the federal spending, encouraging growth, and finally, balance our budget in this country. we have to champion small business. we will help small business keep their taxes competitive. get regulators to see their job is to encourage business cannot crush it and take off that big cloud that is scaring away hiring from small business. we need to repeal it and replace it with something that helps bring down the cost of health care. i want to go deeper for a moment as i talk about that number one objective which is energy. if i am the president of the united states in a few months here, i will set a national goal of america and north america, north american energy independence by 20/20. north american energy independence by 20/20. we produce all the energy we use in north america and there are a number of things i will do to make that
that would be a significant tightening of fiscal policy. it would probably lead to a recession early next here. specifically the baseline forecast showed continued modest growth in the economy during the rest of 2012. a drop in output during the first half of next year at an annual rate of nearly 3%. following that drop we anticipate the outlook will expand again in the second half of next year and beyond. the unemployment rate will rise to about 9% in the second half of next year and remain above 8% through 2014 through current law. host: the lead story deferring on the budget no longer an option. congress s scorekeeper warned they cannot continue to put off big decisions about the economy much longer and said i their path will be painful to congressional budget office, which released the annual august updates for the deficit in 2012 is pretty much set at $1.10 trillion. that is a little bit from this article and the washington times. we want to get your reaction. the fisc
right now. welcome, everybody, our starting point, todd akin says he will no go down without a fight. he is facing tremendous pressure from republican leaders to quit his senate race against democratic incumbent claire mccaskill. he says he s staying in. akin s support has all but disappeared as a result of these comments about rape and abortion. if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try that shut that whole thing down. let s assume that maybe that didn t work or somebody. i think there should be some punishment but it ought to be in the rapist and not attacking the child. congressman akin is fighting to salvage his senate campaign. the website politico obtains this new ad this morning from the republicans. the fact is rape could lead from pregnancy. the truth is, rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the words i said, not in the heart i hold. well, congressman akin has under 11 hours to get his name off the ballot if he decides to change
with a green jacket. augusta national finally letting women into the club for the percent time in its 80-year history. woef a live report from the home of the masters for you. that is a long time coming. good morning, welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. up first the pressure is mount ring for todd akin to drop out of the race. akin is refusing to go. before yesterday, much of the country didn t know who he was. but republicans were counting on him to defeat incumbent claire mccaskill and help them regain control of the senate. but this morning, his remarks have both parties united in their condemnation. the views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. his comments about rape were deeply offensive. and i can t defend what he said. i can t defend him. cnn political editor paul steinhauser live in our washington bureau. this is a long list of people, house speaker john boehner, senate leader, mitch mcconnell urged him to withdraw. the editor