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aren t statistics they are people in pain. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . we begin this hour with what s happening in iowa. right now the state that holds the lead off presidential contest is gauging early support for the republican candidates. we re standing by for the results of the iowa straw poll. the winner could get an important boost heading in to the 2012 primary season. cnn don lemon is joining us from ames, iowa. don? all right. thank you very much for that, wolf. joining me here is cnn candy crowley to talk about all of this. are you hearing anything? back there at thtabulating. i mention we ll hear in the next 15, 20 minutes. we were talking about ron paul, herman cain, rick santorum, michelle bachmann. he said if he didn t place high enough he s is going to get out. the problem isn t so much oh, my gosh this person placed fifth it s that donors look at i ....
who will have to get out of the race for the republican presidential nomination. also, dozens of people arrested in philadelphia last night, but we ll explain to you why they were all between the ages of 14 and 17. at the top of the hour, we start with the breaking news out of pakistan. the u.s. embassy is saying an american was abducted from his home in lahore. we have the latest from pakistan. reporter: t.j., this is the third time an american has been kidnapped in pakistan. they are rare, but the way it happened is unprecedented. i don t think we have ever seen kidnappers ever break in to take someone. according to the embassy, an american citizen by the name of warren weinstein, around 3:15 a.m. this morning, in the city of lahore, an sassailants brokeo his home and others scaled the walls. police say this house was being guarded by three very well trained security guards. they are saying they are retired military commandos. that is why police are considered t ....
really aren t too terribly far apart and the deal can be done by the august 2nd, tuesday deadline. let s listen to the president, this is when he spoke around 10:30 this morning. let s listen. good morning, everybody. i want to speak about the ongoing and increasingly urgent efforts to avoid default and reduce our deficit. right now, the house of representatives is still trying to pass a bill that the majority of republicans and democrats in the senate have already said they won t vote for. it s a plan that would force us to relive this crisis in just a few short months, holding our economy captive to washington politics once again. in other words, it does not solve the problem, and it has no chance of becoming law. what s clear now is that any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan, it must have the support of both parties that were sent here to represent the american people. not just one faction. it will have to have the support of both the house and the senat ....
meeting of young people killing ten there. police say the attacks are definitely linked. 19 people are hospitalized with injuries in oslo. no word yet on a motive for the attacks. the other huge story in washington, debt talks have broken down. late this afternoon, house speaker john boehner walked out of negotiations with president obama saying the two could not connect because of their different visions for the country. president obama was the first to respond. my expectation was that speaker boehner was going to be willing to go to his caucus and ask them to do the tough thing but the right thing. i think it has proven difficult for speaker baine for do that. i ve been left at the altar now a cult of times. a short time later, speaker boehner hit back with this. let me just say that the white house moved the goal post. there was an agreement on some additional revenues. until yesterday when president demanded $400 billion more, which was going to be nothing m ....
british parliament hearing today in london but they were upstaged momentarily by an intruder who somehow managed to get very, very close to the murdochs, too close as you re about to see. watch. so no official word yet as to who exactly that guy in the plaid shirt was. we know he was shouting you greedy billionaire, but he pushed a plateful of shaving cream into rupert murdoch s face before he was grabbed, first by his wife, if you watch it, not in this shot but you can see she was wearing that bright pink jacket, and then by authorities. they did take a quick break. he then continued jacket off to answer questions before parliament s committee on media, culture and sports. so the members wanted to know this, how much did rupert murdoch and his top executives know about the phone hacking by reporters on his payroll, how closely he followed day-to-day operations. the newspaper closed because of this whole thing. and how responsible he feels about this entire affair. do ....