over at the white house? well, yesterday, savannah, to your point, yesterday, we had barack obama the president of the united states essentially sag th saying we need to go big, and the republicans need to step up to the plate and then john boehner said, we are doing all we can do, and then they had the meeting. i cannot imagine it is terribly productive given what we have seen publicly, and the only hope people can have here is that what you are seeing publicly is positioning to do everything to play to the respective party bases, and that in that room, there s more of a kind of sense of negotiation and that a deal might get done, but if you watch publicly, it seems that we are further apart than in months. and the clock keeps on ticking. chr chris, thank you so much. and coming up tomorrow, we will have robert moreland talking about troop levels in
the united states would have enough money to continue paying its social security checks on august 3rd if a deal isn t reached over the debt ceiling on august 2nd, which is the deadline that s been mapped out by treasury secretary timothy geithner. the president said no. he said if a deal isn t reached by august 2nd there isn t enough money in the coffers of the united states to keep on paying the social security checks. he is ramping up the pressure to try to get a deal done by that deadline that has been set and treasury secretary geithner as well today reiterating calls to get a deal done by august 2nd saying if there isn t a deal it could potentially cause economic calamity. now some republicans have said that s overstated. that s not the case, what you have here today is the president, the treasury secretary trying to ramp up the pressure to get a deal done by that deadline. savannah? kristen welker on the story for us thank you. congresswoman kathny mcmorris rogers is