spending. and before you go, you know, our lead story is apparently, there are reports out there that they could be close to a deal. from what you have heard about the deal, would the tea party support this? well, as i said. i think we re going to have to wait and see what comes back because the bottom line is, steve. americans don t want to deal, they want a solution. you re exactly right. thank for joining us. it s a pleasure. thanks for having me. straight ahead. airport security is about to change and soon tsa agents will be able to single you out for questioning and profiling works, but what about great big countries like the united states. we examine next. and charlie, charlie, did you really need another controversy? the congressman who didn t pay taxes now tied to even more bad checks? oh spaghettio.
between toenail clippings and hiv. steve: we re talking the rat thing, the toenail thing a organization represents churches, traditional values coalition and they ve looked at the money that our country is wasting and squandering. and come on, let s do an investigation, it s not right sending all of this dough to china. if you re checking and the epa s, 800,000 over to china and air pollution in china. you want to could all of these studies, that s fantastic. knock yourself out. you agree, knock yourself out. do them here in america where you re paying american scientists. create american jocks. create a job or two, what a great idea. not a chinese job. e-mail us, what do you think about that. friends@foxnews.com. in the meantime, early on this sunday morning, there are
steve: we re on the wrong day. gretchen: steve and gretchen and eric bolling ostensibly for brian, but monday through friday. but, an important situation with regard to the debt ceiling deadline that s approaching on tuesday. yesterday, in the afternoon, the republicans came on, john boehner and mitch mcconnell had a stunning press conference in which they said we may have an actual deal. and after last week we had, a lot of people were taken aback. steve: and harry reid said i don t know what they re talking about, i ve been on negotiations and i m here, it does not look good. we re not closer, however, mr. reid changed his tune shortly after ten o clock last night and said that the talks between mitch mcconnell, the minority leader of the senate, and joe biden were progressing to the point where they had made significant progress and harry reid was going to call for a vote to actually start voting on the senate deal.
and steve, back to you. thank you very much. rick, straight ahead. we re really pushing this debt deadline and in fact, we may lose our triple-a credit rating and even if there is a deal and some are pointing the fingers at president obama saying it s a failure of leadership. that is coming up live. and we re surrounded by rebels. how can a mad dictator win back the world support. gaddafi has a plan. gretchen: back to ohio where the ohio state fair band plays us out to break.
check and moved onto the next issue. i m not advised by it. in this morning s new york times maureen dowd referred to tea partiers as political suicide bombers, but when you look at the election last year, it was a clear mandate, it was a landslide with the freshman class, love them or hate them, we start standing on principle. steve, that s the people speak loud of and clear last november and it s all about the spending and that s why we re here and everybody wants to differentiate freshmen versus republican establishment, they would have control of the house if it weren t for the tea party freshman and the movement across the country. and tell us a little the debt debate and it was on the house side and john boehner s bill wasn t passing because a lot of the tea party, the tea party, congress people, when the budget amendment, the balanced budget amendment got enough votes and went over to the the senate and now it s going to come back, if it doesn t come back with the billion