tube baby was born weighing in at 5 pounds 10 ounces, the first baby conceived outside the womb. scientist edwards eventually received the nobel prize pioneering the science of in vitro fertilization and bringing the joy of children to many millions of folks around the world. all right. it s going to be a long week of back and forth with the clock ticking louder on the way to the august 2nd death deadline. who in anyone we ll blame first and where is the line between thrill theater and renegotiation? with us on the panel today, dan ball, and the chief for the washington post. politico senior political reporter jonathan martin and from the center for american progress and former secretary for form e president bill clinton. dan ball, start with you. the chief. i want to get to sort of, you know, sometime wes know there s rhetoric for public consumption and stuff going on behind the scenes. trying to read behind the lines
baby conceived outside the womb. scientist edwards eventually received the nobel prize pioneering the science of in vitro fertilization and bringing the joy of children to many millions of folks around the world. all right. it s going to be a long week of back and forth with the clock ticking louder on the way to the august 2nd death deadline. who in anyone we ll blame first and where is the line between thrill theater and renegotiation? with us on the panel today, dan ball, and the chief for the washington post. politico senior political reporter jonathan martin and from the center for american progress and former secretary for form e president bill clinton. dan ball, start with you. the chief. i want to get to sort of, you know, sometime wes know there s rhetoric for public consumption and stuff going on behind the scenes. trying to read behind the lines yesterday on speaker boehner on fox. here s what he said.
i ve never taken my last offer off the table. and they ve never agreed to my last offer. boehner says house legislation needs to be posted on-line today and voted on on wednesday if they want to raise the debt ceiling by the august 22nd deadline. timothy geithner is the guy who might not have the money to pay the country s bills on time. here s what he told cnn s candy crowley on state of the union. what we cannot do, this is very important, it would be irresponsible, is to leave the threat of default hanging over the american economy for a longer period of time. back in january, more than seven months ago, we started this process of working with the congress to get them to raise the debt limit so we could avoid a default crisis. it s taken us seven months. we re not nowhere, but almost out of runway. geithner says it s okay to do this in stages, raise the debt ceiling with spending cuts now and work out broader tax reform next year. but you heard him say that getting
these are our top stories at this hour. americans in europe being warned to avoid popular tourist destinations. and stay on alert. the concern, terrorist attacks. potential for one, at least. similar to the 2008 attacks on two hotels and a jewish center that happened in mumbai, india. intelligence officials say a group of jihadists in hamburg, germany believed to be behind this plot. the advisory is to encourage precaution, but not to tell americans to avoid travel all together. earlier today, the man known as the father of the test tube baby robert edwards named as the year s recipient of the noble prize for medicine. excuse me, guys. edwards pioneered in vitro fertilization. the panel says his contribution represent a milestone in the development of modern medicine. and verizon wireless is going to refund 15 million customers. the company admits to charging customers for data services they
robert edwards was named for his work in the development of invet row fertilization. his work came to fruition with the birth of the first test tube baby in 1978. since then, his work has led to the births of about 4 million babies. talk about having an impact on lives, wolf. wow. it is amazing. congratulations to him. a fiery new attack on a convoy supplying u.s. and nato forces. it s the fourth attack in four days. the imfact on american troops. we have new information. also, caught on tape. the recording that sharron angle probably doesn t want you to hear. she trashes her own party, tries to cut a deal with a rival for more, all of it caught on tape. plus, a former vice president tells me president obama should lose what he calls the idiot boards. you ll hear it yourself. that s coming up. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah.