![]() the cia is working to make sure this plan nor any others are carried out. the cia is never progressed beyond the planning stages. on the upcoming tenth anniversary on 9/11 when he was killed in may but things never progressed beyond the planning stages. osama bin laden was trying to assemble a team to attack the u.s. matt? > kristen welker at the whiteįor short-term fixes. in the meantime he has given congressional leaders about 36 hours to figure out that path forward with the understanding that they might be meeting again over the weekend. > reporter: president obama's speech in just a few hours we expect him to make a case that a larger deal is still possible with just a little bit of compromise. > we have looked at all available options and we have no may to give congress more time to solve this problem, and we're running out of time. treasury secretary timothy geithner has kept up his own warning saying if the debt ceiling isn't raised by august 22nd, the u.s. standard & poor's is now the second major credit agency to warn it might downgrade the nation's top notch credit rating if a deal isn't reached soon. > reporter: wall street is getting more worried. and any suggestion that the role that eric has played in these meetings has been anything less than helpful is just wrong. > reporter: after democrats suggested that house majority leader eric cantor was undercutting speaker john boehner by dominating the debt talks, the republicans put forward a united front. > we're not going to raise the debt ceiling if we don't have cuts in excess of that amount that we don't want to raise taxes. > my message to the republicans who are stopping us from extending the debt ceiling is that if they bring this economy down they've broken it and they own it. ![]() > reporter: with no deal in sight there's still a lot of partisan wrangling. until we do that we're going to look at other alternatives. ![]() > hopefully we can come up with this big robust deal we've been trying to get. > reporter: fearing the talks might fall apart, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and majority leader harry reid are working on a backup plan based on a proposal mcconnell presented earlier this week which would allow the president to raise the debt ceiling in three increments through the 2012 election. he went on to say that news international is going to print this weekend in british he mentioned the resignation of rebecca brooks, the backing out of the deal as well as the closing of the "news of the world" newspaper. > reporter: james murdoch wrote a letter to staff as well outlining what news international has done so far to try to fix this problem. the britts are going to be the ones who investigate this. is not going to want to be seen as trying to trump the british. but with brooks gone and a full-blown investigation on going in the uk that involves a former prime minister and the royals, among others, some experts believe investigators in the u.s. news international, the subsidiary in the uk, tells nbc news they have seen no evidence to support the claim. the fbi has opened an investigation into an unsourced report in one british tabloid that "news of the world "account attempted to hack the phones of 9/11 victims.
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