[Baldwin:] Now to Washington we go to my colleague Wolf Blitzer with the latest news hot off the CNN Political Ticker. Good to see you.
[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn Host, "the Situation Room":] Brooke, did you see Bruno Mars on the "Today Show" this morning?
[Baldwin:] I missed it. Sorry. Was it great?
[Blitzer:] He did little James brown moves if you like that kind of stuff.
[Baldwin:] I do like that stuff.
[Blitzer:] At the BET Soul Train awards last year. We'll talk about that if you get the video for my next hit in an hour, we'll show it to our viewers.
[Baldwin:] Look at you, making our team scramble right now.
[Blitzer:] It was very good. I think your viewers, my viewers will like to see Bruno Mars do a little James brown. It's very, very cool. Let's talk politics right now. A lot of political stuff happening in Washington. The House of Representatives, the Republican majority in the House, they did pass a resolution today opposing what the Obama administration is doing in Libya, but then they rejected a resolution that would have cut off U.S. military funding restricting the U.S. military options in Libya. As you know, the speaker, John Boehner, a lot of other Republicans and a bunch of Democrats as well are not happy the president has gone beyond 90 days with the U.S. NATO military operation in Libya without getting formal congressional authorization. They'd like to see the war powers resolution used in this particular case. The U.S. has spent by the end of September, will have spent about $1.1 billion launching bombs, missiles and other weapons at targets in Libya. They say the war powers resolution applies. The White House says these are not, quote, "hostilities," as defined in the war powers resolution. So that debate goes on, but sort of an embarrassing setback to a certain degree for the White House today. On another issue, the White House did announce that the president, starting Monday, will take charge of the negotiations with the Republicans and the Democrats in the House and Senate to deal with this debt ceiling. As you know, and all of our viewers by now know, the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, the treasury secretary, says there's an August 2 deadline to increase the debt ceiling. It's right now about $14.3 trillion. So they have got a month or so to do something. Otherwise, the Treasury Department says there will be economic catastrophe if U.S. creditworthiness is undermined. The value of the dollar, interest rates, all sort of calamities could occur. So, the president will get involved personally. Biden will be involved, but it's now going to be at the presidential level with John Boehner, with Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi. We will see if they can reach a deal over the next month Brooke.
[Baldwin:] Good deal. You say this all the time to me, Wolf Blitzer. I'm saying it to you. I have got a pretty good interview coming up. I hope you watch it in a couple of minutes.
[Blitzer:] Who do you have?
[Baldwin:] Wait for it.
[Blitzer:] All right.
[Baldwin:] A former mobster. It's pretty good. I'm excited for him.
[Blitzer:] Wow.
[Baldwin:] Thank you, Wolf.
[Blitzer:] All right.
[Baldwin:] And we will get another political update for you in half-an-hour.