program. keep in mind the august 2nd august debt ceiling deadline is less than four weeks away. mike viqueira is live on the lawn of the white house. what if anything was accomplished? reporter: remember last week the president criticized house republicans, congress in generally, for pulling all-nighters like his 13 and 10-year-old girl. they nerve doer that. criticized congress for putting everything off to the last minute. they ll be cramming all weekend. the president telling negotiators go back, meeting at the staff level over the next couple of day, working out their bottom lines at the president phrased it today in a surprise appearance in the press conference and come back here sunday. there s a feeling here, matt, they are in the final stages of this negotiation. that was exquisitely said by house republican number two eric cantor today. john boehner, speaker of it s house, telling colleague bees hind closed doors today there is a 50/50 deal. they ll have a deal with the nex
now is the unwillingness of some, or maybe all, of the republicans to put any revenue increases on the table. if they are unwilling to do that, and they continue to be unwilling to do that, there can be no deal. i cannot see a deal. if they are willing to do that, there can be a deal. then the question is, what are they willing to put on the table? so listen to the words about anything related to loopholes, tax rates. that s going to be the clue about whether there s any give on the revenue side of this equation. laura tyson, former chief economic adviser to president clinton. thank you for decoding the coming conversation for us and for those great ideas. all right. thank you very much, matt. coming up, casey anthony let s her hair down. america s most famous accused killer since o.j. simpson is about to be sprung. we ll ask the mega panel what her acquittal says about our trite a fair trial. and the president getting it from all sides on everything
program. keep in mind the august 2nd august debt ceiling deadline is less than four weeks away. mike viqueira is live on the lawn of the white house. what if anything was accomplished? reporter: remember last week the president criticized house republicans, congress in generally, for pulling all-nighters like his 13 and 10-year-old girl. they nerve doer that. criticized congress for putting everything off to the last minute. they ll be cramming all weekend. the president telling negotiators go back, meeting at the staff level over the next couple of day, working out their bottom lines at the president phrased it today in a surprise appearance in the press conference and come back here sunday. there s a feeling here, matt, they are in the final stages of this negotiation. that was exquisitely said by house republican number two eric cantor today. john boehner, speaker of it s house, telling colleague bees hind closed doors today there is a 50/50 deal. they ll have a deal wi
lindsey of new york, mcnichols of denver, blanding of chicago, all learn what happens when the snow piles up and the traffic snarls. today it is mayor mike bloomberg of new york. why isn t my street cleared? why isn t it plowed? governor christie of new jersey what in the world are you doing disney world in the political bad guys of the blizzard of 010, that is our top story tonight on hardball. plus, the execution squads are out to kill obama s a health care bill. and mike huckabee is cheering on the execution. the health care bill is not only a bad product but it was conc t concocted by a bad process energy locked rooms, in the middle of the night with people having never read over 2300 pages of the most massive policy that has ever been concocted and pushed on the american people. could this be anymore predictable? every time a new layer of the social safety net is proposed, where it is social security, income tax, medicare, medicaid, just to name a few concerns, ar
constructive talks but the two sides are very far apart and you heard in that sound bite there s the president was talking about pain. there s going to be a lot of pain felt on the democratic side if they go through with these social security, these adjustments to social xushly. loathed to call it anything more than that. certainly not a restructuring. you mention the fact they re talking about adjusting possibly, at least reportedly, the cost of living adjustments. also talking about changing the retirement age and social security. the white house says none of this should be any surprise, at least as far as having social security on the table. meanwhile, the top democrat in the house leaving no doubt today at a press conference, nancy pelosi after meet wig her caucus says that social security and medicare cannot be touched, not be on this table. they should be on a completely different table. matt? mike viqueira, thanks, as always, for giving us at least the shape of the table or th