economically and he wants to draw a line in the sand and say we're in trouble. >> how does the tea party come out of all of this? >> enormous winners. i have to say, i'm scratching my head in amazement they don't seem to think they won. but senator paul seems to kind of think they did. in the last eight months since they won the november election in the house of representatives, here's what's happened. a massive tax cut. i think way too targeted towards the rich but massive, $858 billion. bigger than the t.a.r.p. bailout and bigger than the obama stimulus package but cutting taxes is clearly a tea party priori priority. in april, the deal to keep the government functioning cut 35 to $38 billion from this year's budget. now this massive $2 trillion spending cut plan, i think it's a route. i don't support their agenda. but if it's cutting taxes and spending, good, lord, this thing say route.

we haven't seen the democrats get a penny of taxes even from oil companies. >> eric, you gae with that? >> not necessarily. paul makes a very good case to enrage the democratic base and maybe make the republicans feel good but i'd point out the tax cuts paul is talking about they were extended by a fully democratic congress with a democratic president with a republican minority in the house and senate. but at the same time these tea party activists don't feel like they've won because they see this picture and they'll really believe we're headed down the wrong road and say if this plan goes according to design, anderson, and that's the frustrating part "by design" we'll add $12 trillion. they don't view that as a victory. >> eric erikkson and paul begala, appreciate it. all the bitterness on the house floor stopped by an inspiring moment to welcome gabby giffords. she returned for the first time since she was shot in the head seven months ago. i spoke with her friend and

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inspiring moment and really touching on the house floor. had nothing to do with the vote happening and put the whole vote in perspective or the debate that's been so contentious. not about politics but a person. when representative gabby giffords returns to the house floor for the first time since she was shot on that dark day back in january. she was welcomed back and applause, a lot of applause, listen! [ cheers and applause ] >> she looked great. nancy pelosi calls giffords the person per sonification of courage. she was fighting for her life in intensive care. she wasn't moving the right side of her body and still has trouble standing and speaking more than short phrases. this is a triumph for her family and her and her friends. her friend and colleague, debbie wasserman schultz helps her into the house, you see her on the

left, that's her husband on the right, mark kelly. i spoke with congresswoman wasserman schultz a short time ago. just a remarkable moment today. among all this bickering to have a moment like this and see congresswoman giffords there. incredibly close friend of yours, obviously, what was it like for you to have her on the floor? >> absolutely incredible. when i got the call from mark that gabby had been following the negotiations and wanted to be able to be in the chamber to cast her vote, if it was pivotal, she wanted to make sure that she could help stave country from default and make sure that she was there on the most important vote that we'll are probably cast this congress for her constituents. it was the most overwhelming. it would be hard -- my heart -- all of our hearts were so full. you've had some grizled hardened members with very hardened hearts that everybody just melted when she walked in the

chamber. it was so incredible. >> so you found out, what, yesterday, last night? >> yeah. mark called me last night and told megaby had been following the debate and really important for her to be will and she wanted to be sure, especially she was a deciding vote and then she decided that it was important for her to cast her vote and make sure her district had a voice in the chamber. >> how is she doing? she looks good, she looks strong. she looked, you know -- i mean, she looked like she belonged there. >> exactly. she's doing incredibly well. this is the most determined, focused, hard-working person we've said for months. months ago i said that she would make a triumphant return to the chamber and today she did. and, you know, she has a long way to go in her recovery. she still has to work and repable expectation so she's not ready to come back fulltime but this was an incredible step for

her and a fantastic day. in an otherwise tough few weeks. so gabby giffords is the consummate public service and her district is forge as she set the example today for having her represent them. >> you answered my final question which is -- this is not for good. she's not back for good. >> no. she has a lot of work left to do to continue on the road to recovery but she's making remarkable progress. she's very determined to come back and i've been able to visit with her a whole bunch since the shooting. she's made more and more progress each time. it's amazing that america and her colleagues and constituents got to see how much progress she's made. it was something that after such a tough debate, after so much was at stake for us to have gabby melt our hearts a little bit so we can move on and hopefully, start to work together a little bit better.

>> it was certainly one of those moments in the newsroom where everyone just stopped and i'm sure the same thing on the floor of the house and kind of puts things in perspective. >> really, it does. you should have seen -- i was watching the members faces as i was helping to walk gabby into the chamber and it was just jaws dropping and smiles and tears and just -- it was -- i think it was a shot in the arm that the congress and the house needed. the shot in the arm that the country needed after a very tough time. we got a lot in front of us and a lot of work ahead of us, hopefully gabby's return today, even if it's just brief, will help us all come together. that's the civility that i know is so important to her and hopefully, her return sets the tone. >> i hope she got a sense of the outporing and i hope it gave her a shot in the arm as it did everyone else. >> she did. she thought it was incredible.

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in syria, a bloody 48 hours as president assad escalates his crackdown. the city of hama, a major target. take a look. video reporting to show hama under fire. at least 52 people including four children were killed. dozens more reportedly died in other attacks across the country. hospitals are said to be overwhelmed. video, it was people outside one

of them with foreign journalist barr from syria. we can't independently confirm the reports. another video reportedly shot of a group of man trying to recover a wounded man on the street and appear to come under gunfire. watch this. keep in mind, this is the holy month of ramadan. there were reports of machine guns firing from tanks and at least six more people were killed. the video of the tank was purportedly shot on the outskirts of the city of what may. the president called the attacks on demonstrators horrifying. a lot more happening tonight. isha joins us with the 3620 "news and bulletin." it looks like the casey anthony saga is not over yet. a judge says anthony has to come back to orlando to a year of probation on her check fraud conviction. apparently there's confusion

about whether the judge intended for anthony to serve her probation while she was in jail waiting for her murder trial. her attorneys may challenge the. prosecutors in california say they'll go for the death penalty in the so-called "grim reaper serial killings." there was a long gap in between his alleged crimes. frankly charged with murdering ten women between 1985 and 2007. ford is rauling more than a million pickup trucks because of a fuel tank problem. the struts can rust. which can loosen the tank and let it drag on the ground. this covers the f-150 model from 1997 to 2003 and some f-2 dasf-. >>and imagine this. driving on the highway and suddenly, a snake slit they ares out from under the hood.

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we're to have the behind the scene story of gabby giffords appearance today. we'll talk to debbie wasserman schultz who helped her. the breaking news on the debt deal, no vote until tomorrow in the senate and a breathtaking moment as the house was voting to pass it looked and sounded like business as usual and then as we pointed out, everything changed, listen. [ cheers and applause ] for that moment or two, nobody watching knew quite what to make of it and then word got out it was wounded congresswoman gabby giffords entering the chamber to cast her vote since her shooting in mid january. that's later on in the program. she returned and said her vote was needed. turns out it was not that close. take a look. >> yay, 269. nays, 161. the bill is passed without objection. a motion to reconsider is laid

on the table. >> of that 161, 95 democrats and majority voted no. so did 66 republicans. liberal democrats and tea party republicans joining in opposition. a democratic congresswoman who voted no and called it a sugar coated satan sandwich." before air time, kate baldwin spoke briefly with house speaker boehner. >> how do you feel, sir? >> i feel great. >> what do you think of the vote this evening? >> i thought it was a strong vote but the first step in many steps yet to go. >> what you hope the american people take? what do you think the message is for the american people tonight? >> the process works. it may not be pretty but it works. >> definitely not pretty. president obama said nothing publicly today but reluctantly endorsed the compromise last night. >> is this the deal i would have preferred? no.

i believe that we could have made the tough choices required on entitlement reform and tax reform right now. rather than through a special congressional committee process. >> someone on the left put it differently. paul krugman slamming mr. obama under a headline reading "the president surrenders." you can decide what happens. more than $2 trillion in savings over the next decade including $21 billion next year, a little more than $900 billion agreed on for the next ten years and a bipartisan commission made up of six house and senate members would be charged with laying out by this thanksgiving, at least another $1.2 trillion in spending cuts and or revenue increases to complete the deal and stay away from social security and medicaid. if the panel can't agree, across the board cuts would kick in. the bill would call for a vote on but not passage of a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. gloria borger talked about that last week. in exchange for all that the debt ceiling will be raised through the end of next year.

democratic and republican supporters each trying to claim credit for getting a handle on the deficit. >> we need to return the fiscal responsibility. how is it that weir going to be able to do that? getting our fiscal house in order. >> the american people have spoken loudly. they want us to get our fiscal house in order. >> fiscal handcuffs on this congress that are sorely needed. >> washington is beginning to get its fiscal house in order. >> wow, remarkable how responsible and on the same page everyone sound there is but the ordeal that washington is putting the country through is not yet over. the senate does not vote until tomorrow. deadline today, somehow ensuring they're not just going into the 11th hour in this hot mess but up to the last second of the last minute of the 11th hour. in polling, people were asked for their one word assessment of the budget negotiations. 2% had something positive to describe the process. 2% with a positive word. you can imagine some of the words folks would use. not a kind word, but positive.

the number one word used was ridiculous. all the angles tonight. john king joins us on capitol hill. jessica yellin and gloria borger is with us, a six-box, along with ali velchi and eric erikkson. a lot of talk about winners and losers. you say the president maybe wins by losing? how so? >> remember, anderson, at the beginning the president was trying to negotiate a $4 trillion deal. he gets a little less than half of that. he said he wanted to do it in a one-fell swoop. this is two-tiered so this will be back in six months. he said it needed to be balanced. he didn't get it in the first swoop and unlikely to get it in the second swoop. why does he win? as a candidate for re-election, bad gdp numbers on friday and an

anemic report on this friday. the last thing the president needed was to be the first president in history to have default happen on his watch and the last thing he needed beyond that was more uncertainty, more turmoil, a collapse of the markets, a president running for re-election in a tough economy, he has enough to worry about. he doesn't need a default. >> jessica, does the white house see this as a win? >> they see this as the better outcome of many possible outcomes. a few days ago plenty of democrats thought at this point we could be at a 50/50% chance of default. they'll really thought that default was a likely possibility here. so this is a happy outcome. at the white house there's a sense of exhausted relief. it's the first night in many weeks that there are lights out at this building. people have gone home and it's a little bit lonely here on the lawn. and they're aware they've been bruised politically by this fight. that they have left some democratic priorities imprint on the table that they'll have to stand and fight for again.

but this is certainly not the worst of all the possible outcomes they could have faced and also think the republican party has not served itself well in this fight and will have a lot to answer for in the upcoming election. >> gloria, saying it's not the worst doesn't necessarily mean it's a win either. someone could argue that president obama looked weakened the republicans seem to have gotten more than the democrats got. >> well, you know, first of all nobody really wins here in public opinion as you just said, because the public looks at this and says -- why can't they just get this over with? do their jobs and raise the debt ceiling? but i was talking to a senior white house official today who said, if you look at this down the road, we have some other landmarks coming up in november and again in december and he said, this could frame the debate for the white house for 2012. if republicans are only for cuts in entitlements and not for any kind of revenue, that's something that our public

opinion show the public does not support. and you recall when the ryan budget came out right around the summer, republicans started going home to their town hall meetings and started getting grief on the medicare issue. so this official's position is, well, this could come back to that point again if we don't do anything beyond entitlements, when we have to deal with what the commission tells us to do. >> ali, what affect does this >> what affect does this have on the federal debt? >> it brings it down by $2.1 trillion over ten years, that's not enough, that's -- >> that's from what it was projected to be. >> correct. so that's why -- >> republicans are saying you're still spending $7 trillion. >> we've done the math, there's no way to bring the math in line and bring the deficit down, down, without increasing what republicans call revenues, but taxes. there's just no math. >> no way to do it? >> the only way to do