right here in the united states. and a war of words between two florida lawmakers. democratic party chairwoman debbie wasserman-shultz joins me to respond to a congressman s rant calling her vile, unprofessional and despicable. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. right now, six u.s. senators are giving new momentum to talks aiming at avoiding a national catastrophe in the united states. their bipartisan compromise to slash the deficit. only 12 dpas left, president obama is due to meet this hour with house speaker john boehner and majority leader eric cantor. this just a short while after he met with top congressional democrats over at the white house. ours who correspondent dan lothian is standing by. kate baldwin has the latest. kate? polling show that americans are looking for compromise to get through this debt crisis. senators in the gang of six say that s exactly what they re offering here with their plan, but there are real questions if they can get en
she was not remorseful at all actually. and what is she thinking with these nails? do you frighten children ever? one on one with the nail lady. it s all right here, right now on cnn. good evening, everyone. i m don lemon. we begin with the stunning turn of events and the deepening and embarrassing hacking and bribery scandal infecting fox news channel s parent company news corp. tonight, rebecca brooks who headed up murdoch s newspapers is out on bail after her arrest earlier in the day. another shocker. the head of the same department that arrested brooks, london s metro police commissioner falls victim to the same widening scandal. i have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation with news international at a senior level and in particular to mr. neil wallace who, as you know, was arrested in connection last week. what brought sir paul stevenson, london s top cop down? his dealings with a former police department media consultant, neil wa
gotten is that mubarak s lawyer, the man representing him, said that mubarak fell into a coma at midday egyptian time and the lawyer also saying that mubarak s health deteriorated throughout the day and then he finally fell into a coma. now, conflicting to that, the hospital where mubarak is being treated in the town says he has not fallen into a coma. so there are conflicting reports as to what is going on. some news agency reports are saying that it s not unusual for him to dip in and out of a coma but his situation is still a very stable one and we ve also reached out to the health ministry here in egypt and that basically says that it has no information as to whether or not hosni mubarak is in a coma. what we have to know about the situation is that his health, since he s been ousted from power has been deteriorating. a couple months ago he collapsed during an interrogation. he is, of course, being charged here in egypt with crimes in relation to his rule of 30 years and
opportunity to do something big. we have a chance to stabilize america s finances for a decade, for 15 years or 20 years. if we re willing to seize the moment. what that would require would be some shared sacrifice and a balanced approach that says we re going to make significant cuts in domestic spending. and i have already said i m willing to take down domestic spending to the lowest percentage of our overall economy since dwight eisenhower. it also requires cuts in defense spending. and i ve said that in addition to the $400 billion that we ve already cut from defense spending we re willing to look for hundreds of billions more. it would require us taking on health care spending. and that includes looking at medicare and finding ways that we can stabilize the system so that it is available not just for this generation but for future generations. and it would require revenues. it would require, even as we re asking the person who needs a student loan or the senior citizen o
money and influence. how deep does that run? take a look. the television empire, fox with its news programming is part of his world. 20th century fox was huge, hit films. in publishing, new york post, wall street journal, what he has in print, along with harpercollins publishers limited, books like sarah palins, all part of the empire of rupert murdoch. we will dig much deeper into the rupert scandal and one of the senators calling for an investigation. first, one of the other stories we re following tonight. the other barack obama. a new book reveals astonishing information about the father of the president. it opens a new window into the heart and mind of his son, and who is thaddeus? a conservative who plays an electric guitar, quotes l.e.d. zeppelin on the house floor and running for president in a crowded field. can he rock out? then, think the debt ceiling debate is a joke, so does paul. you re speaking like a conspiracy theorist. it s not conspiracy, reality