border wall in there, right, and the administration decided to take it out because if probably would have blown up the deal at the end of the day. they didn t want to the scuttle this important peeves legislation. my point is there are other vehicles the president could try to attach this to. they will be moving down and moving in the future as well. you talked about president trump being all over the map and giving mixed signals. not clear from speaker ryan s statement whether the president sin sifting the money be spent on a big concrete wall or for broader, quote, border security. neither ryan nor the incoming house minority leader kevin mccarthy used the word wall when he delivered the news. the president, he first tweeted today that the democrats who know steel slats/wall are putting politics over country and 11 minutes later he tweeted with so much talk about the wall people are losing sight of the great job that s being done on the border. the border is tight. you might unders
who may be in need of damage control after irene? plus graphic new evidence of brutality by moammar gadhafi and his inner circle. this just as we re hearing his wife and several children have now escaped libya. the pressure now growing to make sure gadhafi himself doesn t get away. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. raging water in the northeast so powerful it can sweep away cars and swallow up homes. right now vermont is devastated by the worst flooding in decades. cnn s amber lyon joins us from brattleboro in vermont. set the scene a little bit, amber, for what s going on. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, out here, wolf, had i been standing out here earlier yesterday, i would be completely under water. i want to come here and show you this brook right here, this is pretty much representative of what s across this state. this is wet stone brook, flowing more like a river now. it s about four feet wider than usual and look over her
up support for today, and essentially it would raise the debt ceiling and also save some $917 billion in spending over the course of the next decade, so we re keeping an eye on that as always, but first let s get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted police about this suspicious purchase. fbi agents then went on to abdo s hotel room where they found these bomb-making materials, enough apparently to make not just one but two bombs. i ll speak with the gun shop clerk, very astute man who made that crucial call to police in just a minute. definitely stand by for that. also stand by for a news conference. that s expected any minute now in killeen, texas. we ll take you there live as soon as that begins to be briefed and police in killeen and possib