i m christine romans. house speaker john boehner says no way to the president s plan. he has another solution and it s simply says, spend less. i m ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this american morning. thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to american morning. we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this debt ceiling showdown as well as from the house speaker. and still divided this morning. they are still divided with different plans, different ideas how to get us out of the mess. didn t you both think maybe they got something, something happened. i didn t think there was a deal. i m always the optimist. lots of ideas, plans, but no agreement. start there with the debt crisis looming, president obama, house speaker john boehner took their cases for getting a deal done directly to the
while raising the debt by 274 trillion. reid s plan would not include tax increases which republicans refuse to consider nor would it touch entitlements. my colleague, dan lothian is watching it all from his post at the white house. dan, what is the president s position first on raising the debt in installments? reporter: he want it is to go through 2012 and there is a sense at the white house and treasury department in particular even if you had some sort of short-term fix that raises the debt ceiling through the rest of this year, that it still may not be enough to cam the jilters of the financial markets, still may not be enough to security aaa credit rating that the u.s. currently has. tt markets, still may not be enough to security aaa credit rating that the u.s. currently has. that is the first concern. secondly, it has been so difficult to get a deal now the white house points out how much more difficult will this be to get it do for 2012 when you are in the midst of
cheaper? and jackpot. a tulsa man discovers these old cups are worth more than $1 million. an antiques road show r rord. wow. good evening. good monday to you. and tonight we begin with the face you haven t seen. the voice you haven t heard. the hotel maid who told the story that rocketed around the world. the story of the alleged assault that derailed a powerful titan. and she sayss tonight she will not sit silently while he might go free. it s an abc news exclusive interview with good morning america anchor robin roberts who s here with us now. that woman is nafissatou diallo. a 32-year-old immigrant from guinea, west africa. in her first television interview, she painstakingly recounts the day she says she was sexually assaulted by dominique strauss-kahn the powerful man who at the time, was the head of the international monetary fund. he comes to me, and grab my breasts. no! you don t have to be sorry, i said. i said, stop! stop, i don t want to lose my