America’s Collision Course With The Debt Ceiling
As the nation counts down to default, Diane talks to longtime Congress watcher Norm Ornstein about the debt limit negotiations, what's at stake and whether he sees a way forward.
In response to a Hezbollah raid and the capture of two Israeli soldiers, Israel bombed Beirut’s international airport and warned that no place in Lebanon is off limits. We’ll talk about the escalating Mideast violence.
Guests
- David Makovsky Senior fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and co-author with Dennis Ross of "Myths, Illusions and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East"
- Hisham Melhem Washington bureau chief for Al-Arabiya TV, and Washington correspondent for "An-Nahar"
- Anthony Shadid Reporter for The Washington Post, author of "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War" (Picador) and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for International Reporting
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