that an individual who voted 95% of the time for every budget that came before you, you ve raised the debt limit nine times in washington, d.c., and to stand here in front of the people in the state of texas and say, trust me, i m going to balance the budget, that s a little tough to understand. up first, though, breaking news tonight in libya. there are missing missiles, thousands of them, and mounting concerns here in washington they could fall into the hands of al qaeda or other terrorist groups. and as we speak tonight, the libyan rebels who forced moammar gadhafi from power claim to have their former dictator surrounded. they won t say where, but they insist he won t escape this time. cnn s ben wedeman live for us in tripoli. ben, the rebels have claimed to be on gadhafi s close trail before. do we view credibly these indications tonight from their spokesman that they have gadhafi surrounded? reporter: i m approaching these claims with a certain amount of skepticism.
last sunday. dozens of families have lost their homes to wildfires. in oklahoma city alone, fires destroyed 25 homes just this week. and in texas, crews are still battling 14 separate wildfires. they have been making some progress, but a weather system is expected to bring high winds to texas to tomorrow. and that could turn the embers back into flames. politics and sarah palin s latest appearance in the critical early voting state of iowa. the former alaska governor and former vp candidate was a keynote speaker at a tea party rally. she didn t use the rally to declare her presidential bid but she definitely sounded like a candidate. watch. candidate obama didn t have a record while he was in office, but president obama sure does and that s why we re here today. candidate obama, he pledged to fundamentally transform america and for all the failures and broken promises, that s the one thing he delivered on. we have transformed from a country of hope, to one of anxiety. t
jessica, what do you know about the president s plans for next month? after labor day he ll reveal a jobs proposal that will have specifics in the way his critics have been calling for. according to my sources it will be actual legislation. that s real detail. i m told the package will be new initiatives and not a rehash of the policies we ve been hearing him promoting recently like patent reform or infrastructure bank. my sources say there will be proposals in three main categories. targeted tax cuts. another big one for the white house is new infrastructure investment and then long-term help for the unemployed. i should point out this is all being worked out right now. it will continue to be hashed out over the president s vacation. the president is meeting with his top economic advisers tomorrow. i m told it will come up there. republican leaders issued warning shots saying this package should not include any new spending. the president says it will. sounds like we shoul
he s going to unveil a jobs proposal that my sources tell me will have specifics in a way his critics have been calling for. so according to my sources it will be actual legislation. that is real detail. until the package will be new initiatives not a rehash of the policies we ve been hearing him promoting recently like patent reform or an infrastructure bank. my sources say there ll be proposals in three main categories, targeted tax cuts, another big one for the white house is new infrastructure investment, and then long-term help for the unemployed. i should point out this is all being worked out right now. it will continue to be hashed out over the president s vacation. the president is meeting with his top economic advisors tomorrow. i ll told it will come up there. already some republican leaders have issued warning shots saying this package should not include any new spending. the president says it will. sounds like we should brace for a fight. so david gather begin,
w. bush s press secretary ari fleischer is here. after labor day he ll reveal a jobs proposal that will have specifics in the way his critics have been calling for. according to my sources it will be actual legislation. that s real detail. i m told the package will be new initiatives and not a rehash of the policies we ve been hearing him promoting recently like patent reform or infrastructure bank. my sources say there will be proposals in three main categories. targeted tax cuts. another big one for the white house is new infrastructure investment and then long-term help for the unemployed. i should point out this is all being worked out right now. it will continue to be hashed out over the president s vacation. the president is meeting with his top economic advisers tomorrow. i m told it will come up there. republican leaders issued warning shots saying this package should not include any new spending. the president says it will. sounds like we should brace for a fight.