understandable to use the offense and turn it into violence. i think he didn t need, at this point, to have 60 bilaterals at a time when most leaders who would be coming here themselves realize that the u.s. is in an election campaign. dennis, while we ve been sitting here, abbas, the palestinian leader, has taken to the podium, after him one other speaker, and then the prime minister of israel. if they keep to the current schedule, what president abbas has been saying is that he has only one conclusion from the failure of talks, talks that you led in several administrations, prior to this, that israel no longer accepts the two-state solution of israel and a neighbor palestine right next door. let s listen to a little bit of what mahmoud abbas is saying to the united nations. military military colonial o packaged under new napes the
love matt damon, love the guy. matt damon said he was disappointed in my performance. well, matt, i just saw the adjustment bureau so right back at you, buddy. oh, no! i m sure matt damon has a sense of humor, he laughed. but the donald, i was see nothing smile. no sense of humor, don? we were cracking up last night because we had it live, fred, as we do every year here on cnn. that s the whole spirit of the white house correspondents dinner. he did laugh a little with the president, but when it came to seth myers he didn t laugh at all. i m glad you led into me with this because we are going to run big chunks of that. we ll run most of the white house correspondents dinner from last night. we ll run seth myers and the president. guess who is coming up at 7:00 p.m.? the donald to talk about that and why he didn t laugh at seth s jokes.
despite some of the decisions made in d.c., we could still see a downgrade. now, the political standoff as we know it is escalating this hour. a senior gop official, a house aide, i should say, telling fox news that house republicans will pass their debt plan today. we thought that yesterday. we ll see if it happens today. a bill that senate democrats say is dead on arrival, though, as they move ahead with their own debt limit bill setting up a showdown vote really for this weekend. ahead of that host of your world, neil cavuto, is live on capitol hill with his observations about what s happening down there in d.c., neil. first of all, let s start off with the economy though. what is the latest news telling us about the state of our economy today? reporter: well, jenna, i m glad you led with that right away. that is the big news here, and for the markets the far bigger worry. you know, a lot of people say the market is what s going on in washington. that is only partly true. the mark
a downgrade. now, the political standoff as we know it is escalating this hour. a senior gop official, a house aide, i should say, telling fox news that house republicans will pass their debt plan today. we thought that yesterday. we ll see if it happens today. a bill that senate democrats say is dead on arrival, though, as they move ahead with their own debt limit bill setting up a showdown vote really for this weekend. ahead of that host of your world, neil cavuto, is live on capitol hill with his observations about what s happening down there in d.c., neil. first of all, let s start off with the economy though. what is the latest news telling us about the state of our economy today? reporter: well, jenna, i m glad you led with that right away. that is the big news here, and for the markets the far bigger worry. you know, a lot of people say the market is what s going on in washington. that is only partly true. the markets have been hiccupping to to the degree they have been precis