the end of next year, beyond the election, with cuts and spending caps also on the table, house speaker john boehner wants all house members to weigh in. so he plans to hold a conference call with many of them sometime today. so we ve got up to the minute coverage of what s happening in washington. cnn s kate bolduan is on capitol hill. dan lothian is at the white house. first to you, kate, senate leaders in both parties keep saying that they are, quote, very close to a deal. what more do we know? reporter: we don t have specifics of a final deal quite yet because as far as we know, the final deal has not yet been struck. but we are getting some details are emerging of the tentative framework of really where the conversation is focusing at this point. and noteworthy is the is the change in tone and the change of mood up here from yesterday. many people many senators that we re talking to now saying that they re very close to a deal, getting very close to a deal, even
quite bizarre. people like breivik are trying to resurrect the idea of a modern day crusade, a real clash of civilizations against what they see as islamic invasion of europe. in fact, muslims make up only 3% of europe s population and that s likely to rise to between 5 and 8% by 2025 and level out at that point. but that doesn t change the reality of the anger, hatred and the violence. ironically, in breivik s nostalgic view of the medieval world, it resembles nothing so much as al qaeda, another terrorist organization fundamentally opposed to the modern world. we still don t know if breivik s boast that there are more knights waiting to act are true. but if it s depiction of the knight sounds familiar, it is because it too is mirrored in islamist terror, what a suicide bomb every, is a lone fighter acting in the so-called interest of a larger movement and willing to kill innocence to draw attention to the cause. while we ve all focused on the dangers of radical islam, the a
could it still fall apart? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . it s been a day of dramatic changes in washington s debt crisis. within the past few hours capitol hill s angry partisanship gave way to serious negotiations, and then to predictions of an agreement within the very near future, one top republican, the senator minority leader mitch mcconnell declared and i m quoting, he s confident and optimistic. moments ago harry reid seemed to throw some cold water on the new found optimism. rets go to capitol hill. our congressal correspondent kate bolduan is following this. what do we know? reporter: it s changing minute by minute. we did see what could be a significant step in the negotiations just a short time ago when the top republican in the senate, he said, who is a key negotiator in whatever the end game s-he said that those stalled debt talks that were happening that have been sta
read the wall street if you go see fox movies, harper collins, if you watch american idol, you re a rupert murdoch customer. the murdochs both father and son have their work cut out for them. they have two different things in their testimony tomorrow. they got acknowledge responsibility. they have to say that what is completely obvious is that this wasn t abe ration, it was apparently thousands of people who were hacked and the idea they didn t know is propest rous. at the some time, they can t con fes to crimes. another twist a former news of the world reporter a man who blew the whistle has been found dead in his home. one of the first to go on the record saying that his colleagues were encouraged to hack. the death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. the hacker group hit the sun, a murdoch paper, it posted fake articles and now some hackers saying they re sitting on news of the world e-mails. two weeks until america runs out of money to pay its bill.
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