afghanistan. so to honor him, she joins the marines to finish his mission. let me get you caught up on the headlines, what you might have missed while you were sleeping. first of all, president obama came home, he s back at the white house now after wrapping up a nine-day trip that took him to hawaii, australia, and indonesia. the trip was meant to promote american business and manufacturing in the region. also on capitol hill today, live picture you are seeing. work will be going on. members of the deficit supercommittee promising to keep working to get a deal done. now one member of the so-called supercommittee is openly admitting that a compromise is unlikely. a live report just a couple of minutes away. [ crowd noise ] what you re seeing here, police firing teargas into crowds of protesters in cairo s tahrir square trying to break up demonstrations. the second straight day of protests aimed at the military government that took over for former egyptian president muba
no agreement. nor is there an agreement on a house republican push for a much smaller plan made up of spending cuts alone. if all else fails, we may end up with an idea floated by the top senate republican, mitch mcconnell. we laid it out for you. three separate votes between now and the next elections to raise the nation s debt by $2.5 trillion, and there would be $1 trillion in spending cuts and a special congressional panel to shore up entitlements, and the up side supposedly for republicans is keeping the issue alive for another year and blaming the president, who, by the way, is not ruling it out. it s constructive to say if washington operates as usual and cannot get anything done, let s at least avert armageddon. that s i m glad that people are serious about the consequences of default. i want to bring in my colleagues from the white house. dan, to you first. the president says the negotiations have not been ugly, as some have claimed, and he still has hope for a