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  • Boehner, Obama Debt Talks Fall Apart

    August 2nd deadline nears

    Boehner, Obama Debt Talks Fall Apart
    Associated Press / J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE

    House Speaker John Boehner called President Obama Friday evening to tell him he is dropping out of the debt talks. He said President Obama "moved the goal post" on taxes.  In a letter to his Republican colleagues that says, "we couldn’t connect,"  Speaker Boehner said a deal must "implement the principles" of "Cut, Cap and Balance," not increase taxes, and make “fundamental changes” to entitlements. “For these reasons, I have decided to end discussions with the White House,” Boehner wrote his colleagues.  

    In a hastily arranged news conference, President Obama said, "It is hard to understand why Speaker Boehner would walk away from this deal." He said the package consisted of $1 trillion of tax revenue but it mostly was made up of spending cuts in defense and domestic spending as well as $650 billion of savings in entitlements. "This was an extraordinarily fair deal," President Obama said.

    President Obama called Congressional leaders to the White House tomorrow morning at 11 am ET. He said they are supposed to come with ideas how to move forward and that his only demand is that the debt ceiling be lifted to last through 2012. More »

  • 2011 Harlem Book Fair

    2011 Harlem Book Fair

    Book TV is LIVE today from the 13th annual Harlem Book Fair from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 

    Today's all-day fair features filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, culture critic  Nelson George, actress-author Cherie Johnson and Kola Boof.   More »

    • 2011 Harlem Book Fair: Live at 11am (ET) on C-SPAN Networks

  • British Parliament Looks into Phone Hacking Scandal

    U.S. Government investigating

    British Parliament Looks into Phone Hacking Scandal

    On Tuesday, two British Parliamentary Committees questioned News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch along with other News Corp. executives and police officials about their knowledge regarding the phone hacking and police bribery scandal which took place at the News of the World.

    On Wednesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron appeared before a special session of the House of Commons to discuss the situation and answer questions about the investigation and his hiring of Andy Coulson, who was an editor at News of the World before he was hired by Cameron. In his remarks, the Prime Minister stated that his staff was not trying to stop any investigation into the scandal. More »

  • NRC Discusses Nuclear Plant Safety

    NRC Discusses Nuclear Plant Safety
    Associated Press / Mary Ann Chastain

    On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), heard the results of a task force report prompted by the meltdown of the Fukushima reactor in Japan.  The report looked at what lessons can be learned from that accident and how the U.S. nuclear power industry should react to prevent a similar incident here.

    On Monday in a speech at the National Press Club, NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko said that while the NRC believes there is "no imminent threat (of an incident)...no one believes that what happened in Japan would be acceptable in this country." More »