good morning,. lawmakers will start voting on a plan that cuts nearly $2.5 million and raises the debt ceilings. it doesn't touch entitlements or raise taxes. it does create a super committee to look at more cuts later on. the president, himself, aknownsed the deal last night. >> this process has been messy, taken far too long. i have been concerned about the impact that it has had on business confidence and consumer confidence and the economy as a whole over the last month.

nevertheless, the leaders of both parties have found their way toward compromise. i want to thank them for that. we are covering this story from capital and the white house. going to start with nbc's kristen welker and luke russert joins us as well. what is the word out of the white house? is this seen as a win for the president? >> reporter: hi, there, jeff. good mornings to you. president obama and white house officials say they are very happy with this deal. you have heard some democratic voices that say there just aren't tax increases in this deal. they are not happy with it. you have heard voices to the right who say there aren't deep enough cuts but the folks that worked on hammering out this deal says, that's what compromise looks like. the bottom line is no one is going to be completely happy. what this deal actually does.

there are two steps to this deal. the first step, you see the debt ceiling increased by about $1 trillion through 2012 and matched with an equal amount of spending cuts, discretionary and spending. president obama was adamant. he wanted to see the debt ceiling increased through 2012. republicans wanted an equal amount of cuts. the second part of the the process, the formation of a super bipartisan committee that's going to be charged with identifying another $1.5 trillion in cuts. they are going to look at things like entitlements and tax reforms. if they can't identify those cuts by november, a trigger is going to be set off. if that trigger does get set off, we will see cuts, more cuts to defense and discretionary

spending. the idea is that those cuts are going to be so important to democrats and republicans that they will, in fact, take action. so we will have to see if that actually does happen. but we can tell you that vice president biden is going to be heading to the hill today. he is going to be meeting with the democratic caucuses in the house and as well as the senate. he is going to try to sell this deal. although congressional leaders have signed off on this deal, we still have to see if it is going to pass through both chambers. vice president biden going to be working on that today trying to make sure that happens. jeff? >> nbc's kristen welker at the white house. luke, want to bring you in from capitol hill. kristen touched on a very important point. it has to pass the house and the senate. when will this happen today and is it a f will it be signed and ratified.

>> reporter: we don't know which will go first but we think it will be the senate. a lot would like to seat senate pass it possibly having 70, 75, 80 senators on board. they believe that puts more of an impetus on the house to get this completed, especially if you have republican senators. they can talk to their representatives from their individual state and say, look, i am from your staut i i went for th for this. everyone expects it to pass the senate and go to the house of representatives. this is where john boehner and nancy pelosi have to try to sell this deal to their caucus under the auspices that they both won. they will say, we changed the nature of the debate. we cut spending, $3 trillion in spending cuts. we drove the president to a break. we won this. there is going to be no tax hikes. what else could we want? this is a huge victory. he was trying to say that on a conference call.

he was garnering some support. nancy pelosi will go to her conference and say, hey, we won this. look, entitlements aren't going to be cut. we were able to preserve medicare. even if the trigger goes in, it cuts all across the board, defense and medicare. it hits medicare providers first, not medicare recipients. that issue that's so important to liberal house democrats, we want to preserve medicare is saved. nobody knows how they are going to get there. it is presumed that nancy pelosi, who is an extraordinary vote counter in her time up here on capitol hill can get to 95, possibly 100 votes. that means john boehner needs to bring about 120, 130. he had a very difficult time last week trying to bring his republican plan through the house getting to the magic number of 216. there are going to be a lot of deflections on the republican side about this. in terms of why this is so important, listen to mcmcconnell

and harry reid talking about how this is good for the united states and good to end this deficit spending. >> democrats and republicans have rarely needed to come together more than today. i know this agreement won't make every republican happy. it certainly won't make every democrat happy either but both parties gave more ground than they wanted to. neither side got as much as it had hoped. >> we can assure the american people tonight that the united states of america will not for the first time in our history default on its obligations. >> that's what they are trying to say, jeff, look, both sides didn't get everything they want. usually, that means it is a good deal. that's why it is a good deal for the united states senate. in the house where you tend to have the more liberal, more conservative folks, the real fire brands, they don't see it like that. it could be a long night here on capitol hill for both leaders to try to get to 216 votes, whether it happens tonight or early tomorrow. they want to get this done

quicker, more quickly, as quickly as possible. the longer this deal hangs out there, the longer it gets beaten to death by the liberal blogosphere and conservative talk radio. >> a lot of americans are saying, what about my taxes, whether to raise taxes or not was a huge part. immediately, taxes will not get raised but i think i read earlier, taxes could be read later on? >> reporter: under this plan, taxes are not touched. that's what got republicans on board. what's interesting is in the grand scheme of this, from a macro level, the bush tax cuts, as they go further on after 2012, they are still set to expire and they were not touched within this deal. that is something that democrats see as well. we didn't have to deal with the bush tax cuts. there was a lot of fear on the liberal side that oh, my goodness shall the republicans are going to get those extended

another two or three years. that's an issue republicans are happy to have. they feel they win on it every time. they say, we are tough on defense, we are going to lower your taxes. >> nbc's luke russert on the hill watching all this for us. thanks so much. president obama gave you the people some credit for getting a deal done. >> i want to thank the american people. it has been your voices, your letters, your e-mails, your tweets, your phone calls that have compelled washington to act in the final days. the american people's voice is a very, very powerful thing. >> congressman connie mack is a republican from florida. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the phone lines have been jammed. twitter was blowing up. what did you hear from your constituents and how many of them called you? >> we, like everyone else, the phones were ringing off the hook. in fact, they were -- i tried to

call my office a number of times and got a busy signal. the e-mails and letters keep pouring in. people don't necessarily want a deal are a compromise to have a deal or compromise. they want a solution to the problem. they want us to cut our spending. even under this compromise, the debt will go up by over $7 thil yun. t the next cap, if you will, is two years down the road at $17 trillion. after ten years, over $20 trillion in debt. the real issue we are facing in front of us is not a debt ceiling, raising the debt ceiling crisis. it is our debt crisis. this much debt when you only have roughly $2 trillion in revenue is unsustainable. we have to change the way washington spends our money. >> are you going to vote for

this deal? >> i am not going to, no. a plan that doesn't cut spending doesn't solve the problem. when we hear about the cuts, it is based on roughly $10 trillion in increase. >> there is a provision in this bill, a trigger, if you will, that if this newly formed super committee can't come up with $1.5 trillion in cuts, it triggers very deep cuts in defend and medicare. are you worried about that? is that one of the reasons you won't vote for it? >> i am worried about the committee itself. i don't know why we would have to have another committee when we are all elected to do our jobs. that being said, my concern here is that we continue to grow the deficit and the debt. if we continue to spend the way we have been, our children, my

children, your children won't be able to afford the debts that we are piling up on them. >> what do you say to the american people who say, you know what, and you just mentioned it, you were elected to do a job and you as a whole in congress did not do your job? nothing gets done without a deadline. what do you say to america right now? >> you know what, imas frustrat frustrated as everyone else. i wish we could do it differently. unfortunately, that's how the congress works right now. this isn't new. it is not like this debt ceiling sprung up on us and we didn't see it coming. unfortunately, we can't get a deal done unless there is a hard stop. that's just way it works. i would like to say this. if people who are watching are serious about wanting to cut spending, i have a plan on the table that cuts 1% a year for si

six years and ends up cutting $7.5 billion. it is called the penny plan. it is ease why i to understand and implement. i hope they would call their members and ask them to support the penny plan. >> i think the real news is that you need to get a direct hotline to your office. >> that's right. >> running around trying to figure that out. >> thanks for joining us, congressman connie mack. news of a debt deal sparked a rally on wall street. dow down about 6 points. nichole is here with an early edition of "what's moving your money." >> those aren't actually the numbers. in the time it took you to do that interview with the congressman, the dow sank about 70 points. you know what happened at the top of the hour, manufacturing came out. we saw this short-term relief rally and right after the deal was announced, we were higher in terms of futures, about 180

points. we came off those highs. why? it is the real economy. you know what you gave me before the segment. you gave me a lifesaver. that's what a lot of investors are saying this was. this was some life saver to keep us from sinking in the economy. we are still staggering along. >> people can't pay their bills and still don't have their jobs. now that this is behind us werks are back to the real problem. >> we also have s&. is now saying that they are going to down grade the united states debt still. even with the deal as it is from aaa to aa. it is not good enough in terms of being tough on taxes or doing anything for the deficit. the ramifications is going to increase our funding costs. a national, state, and local debt threat and personal debt threat going on. that is going to increase our

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welcome back. 17 minutes past the hour. the republican candidates are now weighing in on the debate. michelle bachmann says she will not vote for it. she released a statement saying to the president saying, the deal spends too much and does not cut enough. john huntsman says it is not his preferred outcome but it is a positive step. huntsman encouraged members of congress to vote for the bill so the nation would not go into default. we have yet to hear anything from republican front-runner, mitt romney, who is getting beat up for staying silent on the debt ceiling debate for weeks. the debt ceiling deal could cut as much as $2.5 trillion from what the u.s. spends but what's the political cost for the president? as an msnbc policy analyst and

the kcolumnist for "the washington post," ezra, good to see you. >> i think it is hard to know. by the time we vote, people are not going to think about how hard it was to reach a debt ceil willing deal. i would push it back to what you are talking about at the beginning of the segment. if you have a debt sealiceiling, if you are going to suck $170 billion out of the economy in an election deal and another 20 or so billion dollars out, you could see a substantial drag in growth. the president will be a political casualty. >> did he get anything? >> he got the debt ceiling. basically, they managed to punt a lot for it. if you talk to the white house and republicans therks both hold a position that cannot be true at the same time. the white house and the democrats think that when this big commission reports near

thanksgiving, which will bring it into an election year, it is going to look great for them. they will be trying to cut medicare to not raise taxes on rich people. republicans think it will be great because democrats will try to raise taxes as opposed to government spending. one side or the other is wrong. it is too early to tell which one. >> the super committee, why couldn't congress get this done? they sort of made a partial decision and then elected to have this super committee decide perhaps what, $1.5 trillion in cuts later on. what could happen with that? >> the basic for stopping a deal is republicans will not agree to taxes. you can't do a grand bargain with these two taxes if you can't have any revenues in the deal at all. the super committee is a way to suggest we are going to agree on taxes later. what esreally important about the super committee isn't the super committee. it is the trigger. what the trigger does is if the super committee doesn't pass some large $1.5 trillion or more

deficit reduction package, the trigger hits and it costs $1.2 trillion. half from defense, which supposedly republicans won't like and half from domestic spending but not from social security or medicaid. the idea is it is going to be so painful for the two parties, they will both come to the table and make a deal. they almost didn't make a deal with the economy about the cave-in and a couple months before that, they almost made a deal with the government with the shut-down. >> we can't ignore the 2012 election and you are probably right when you point out that by the time we vote in november of '12, who is thinking about the debt ceiling debate and whether it came doubt a week or two or two days before the deadline. no question about it, president obama was appealing to independents? >> not question about it. my only problem about the 2012 election, we in washington get into the day by day attempt to

take something in july of 2011 and draw some sort of straight line to november of 2012. what's going to matter is the economy insofar as this deal harms the economy and think it will, at least in a modest way, that will hurt president obama. the politics of the day, how it looks to people, that is going to be forgotten. go back to the government shul sh shutdown, these things so op sessi obsessing at the time and then they disapeefrmt pear. i am not supper impressed but te act thavbefore the election. >> ezra klein, thanks so much. >> thank you. we'll be right back. your watching msnbc on a monday morning.

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i'm carl parker with the weather channel in atlanta. it is going to be incredibly hot along the southern plains to start off. 109, dallas, 110 in wichita on tuesday. 109 in oklahoma city on wednesday. that heat not going anywhere any time soon. weatherwise, it is pretty quiet across most of country this morning. the exception being the northern plains there, severe thunderstorm watch area here. it looks like at least some heavy rain and embedded thunder coming in to the twin cities. severe weather as well. is severe weather across the northern plains, new jersey to new england. one more thirng we are watching, a did mid-level tropical low. the computer models are developing this storm. how much does it interact with land, hispaniola and puerto rico. it may be a threat to florida or the southeast u.s. a lot to watch there, jeff, in

the coming days. we are just getting reaction from mitt romney on the debt-ceiling deal. he says he will not support this deal. he questions president obama's leadership and insists his plan, as president, would have, quote, produced a budget that was cut, capped and balanced, not one that opens the door to higher taxes and puts defense cuts on the table. he says, he appreciate the extraordinary difficult situation president obama's lack of leadership has placed republican members of congress in. he personally cannot support this deal. want to go back to capitol hill now. we are expecting a vote today on that deal to raise the debt ceiling. joined now by congressman, rob andrews, a democrat from nounlg. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for inviting me. >> are you happy with this deal? >> i am not happy with this deal but i'm going to vote for it. unlike mitt romney, i won't change my position tomorrow and the next day and the next day. i just heard what you said about him. give me a break. this is a guy who doesn't want

to touch defense spending even though we have had cost overruns of $300 billion in weapon systems. he wants a balanced budget amendment that will certainly lead to cuts in medicare and social security. not 1 dime from the wealthy of this country. give me a break. this is gheit who can't decide where he stands on abortion from one day to the next. he would have to come here and vote on it and not just issue press release frs whichever country club he is campaigning at today. >> some liberals, some people from your own party are very unhappy with this deal. emanuel cleaver head of the congressional black caucus dauls a sugar-coated satan sandwich. do you think president obama went so far to the right in making this deal he sort of alienated the base of his party? >> i think the reports of this deal are much worse than the deal itself. let me use as an example that we are hearing that there are no taxes in the deal. that is not true.

the special committee that is set up has to decide how to accomplish $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. tax reform and tax increases are one of the ideas on the table. you might say, well, the republicans will never agree to that. let me tell you what happens if they don't agree to that. there would be a cut in defense spending, which is sacred to them and their defense contractors, of $50 billion or $60 billion a year i think what you are going to have here in november when there is a proposal on the table for the wealthy to finally pay a bit of their fair share, you are going to have these defense contractors roaming the halls of congress urging republicans to vote yes. i think a lot of people don't understand, that's not the dial. second, this deal does not touch social security. it has special protections for the lowest income and most vulnerable americans. i don't love this deal but defaulting on the country's

obligation is not an option. it would cause, i think, a depression in the country. we just can't have that. >> isn't it true that we just sort of put this off again? is this real reform now that ir that is a super-xh committee wh there is going to be another situation down the line? >> if i thought it were just another committee, would i agree with you. you need to understand, when committees are formed, it is usually to avoid make something happen, right? committees usually do nothing. if this committee does nothing, something very significant will happen. we will have a defense cut of $750 billion. republicans deplore. we will also have a reduction in provider payments to hospitals and equipment suppliers under medicare which i don't like and would not want to see happen. that's a sufficient incentive for the two parties to actually agree on something. if not, that will happen under this law. that is the main difference between this process and those

that have preceded it. >> congressman andrews, thanks for taking time out of your day. >> my pleasure. >> new violence in syria as government shells the western city of hama for a second straight day. on sunday, they killed at least 70 troops in hama and other cities protesting against the government. tanks opened fire on the city this morning despite the holy muslim month of ramadan today. a bizarre twist in the case of a missing new hampshire girl. her stepfather was rushed to the hospital about an hour ago after he was observed acting strangely outside the family home. nbc producer said wendell noyas repeatedly got down on the ground just like this lying face first on his driveway. he rolled around on the ground and then he would get up and start walking around again. noyas's 11-year-old celina cass was last seen a week ago today sitting at her home computer.

i am joined live by investigative crime reporter. >> she lives with her father and mother and neither are speaking about this case. what do you make about this case? this is clearly a very distraught man and understandably so. >> these type of cases makes family act out in various, various ways just like what we saw a little while ago. sometimes they don't speak, they do speak, they lose weight, they gain weight, especially now that we are on the seven-day mark in this case. you can only imagine how this family is feeling right now, especially with some of the leads that are coming in that really aren't leading investigators to the right places. we can only just continue to keep the hope and the faith alive that she will be found alive and well and okay and brought back to her family. >> where are police on the investigation? they are still treating this is a missing persons case. >> they are. >> but they are also going through ponds. >> they are. >> what do you make of that?

>> i got off the phone with the command post within the last 20 minutes. spo i spoke with james from the attorney general's office and they are approaching this in both ways. they are searching ponds. they are searching the ground. the water by air. anything that they possibly can do to try to turn up some evidence, turn up some clues to be able to lead them in one direction or the other. the problem is, when she was on the computer and she left, there was no forced entry in her place. there was no sips of struggle, no sign that she left. it is kind of like she just vanished at this point. we all know that is not true. one of the key clues is that computer and how she got off. did she log off? was she talking to someone online? was she chatting? how did those conversations end? who was she talking to her? her facebook page is public. you can go on there and see her pictures and her wall and things of that nature. exactly who was she having communication with in those last final moments, especially 24

hours leading up to the point when she disappeared last monday atd 9:30 p.m. >> they are not saying who she was talking to or if they have a person of interest. they are not saying anything. >> they are definitely not saying who she was talking to. at this point, they are saying, look, no persons of interest. no suspects have been identified yet. but, of course, as you know and i know in working on so many of these cases that they are probably zoning in and focusing on a few areas, especially with the computer technology, cell phone technology, things of that nature. you better believe they are combing every single ounce of that and also all 800 residents within her hometown. investigators have gone out there, spoken to each of them. they are combing this ground very carefully, very thoroughly and we are just encouraging anyone with information to please just pick up the phone and call. >> got it. thank you so much, michelle. >> have a good day, jeff. >> you too. nearly 40 years after a power shooting out of a hijacked plane with $200,000 in cash,

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hi, everybody. i'm thomas robertson. voting should start today on the hill hill today after lawmakers appear to make the compromise. the deal doesn't raise taxes but creates a super committee to look at more cuts later on. we are going to talk with one progressive congressman who is not saturdays fitd wiisfied wit. a former member of the u.s. ski team faces down a black bear and lives to tell the story. he will join me live at the top of the hour. right now on capitol hill,

the senate is in session. i want to take you to a live picture of senator harry reid. he opened the floor just after 10:30, said he hopes the senate will vote on the debt deal during today's session. joined by major garrett with some of the winners and the losers in this high-stakes debate. there are plenty of votes, right, major? >> yes, understanding, of course, jeff, that all these assessments are perishable right now. slash analysis is always dangerous. i am pretty tired. we can make rough assessments of how they did. let's go down the list. >> president obama, winner or loser in this? >> loser now and winner later. i only say loser now because if you look at the top line numbers, in gallup, he was at 50% in early june. he is at 40% now with the gallup

numbers. if you drop ten points, there is something wrong. if you drop ten points in the midst of what the public is beginning to perceive as a crisis. how could he win later? he has enough out of this deal to identify himself with someone an interest in deficit reduction and the ability to cre it a compromise and avoid default. so, in the long-term, he can win but right now, he has to be a net loser. >> republicans? >> republicans, forced an argument. in the initial part of that argument, they required the president to do something he didn't want to do, tie a debt ceiling extension to deficit reduction. that's a win. but, in the process, they lost ground with independents and their base may find this deal less satisfying the deeper they look at it. winner now, potential loser later. >> what about the tea party? >> tea party won on direction but probably lost on details. they forced an argument.

republicans carried out that a debt ceiling would not be done. oen a drexel side, they forced a new direction. on the details, they will be less satisfied than they would have preferred to be. >> look at the democrats now. some are say thath president went too far right, didn't play to the base. do you think democrats won overall here? >> house democrats didn't win because to a certain degree, this special committee puts medicare on the table. it only puts providers on the table. it doesn't put structure reforms of medicare. that in some small way diminishing the direct hit that helped to put on republicans on the question of medicare in 2012. senate democrats, probably a push. none of this vulnerable members had to take votes they would later regret. senate democrats are a net winner. house democrats don't have the hold they would prefer to have on medicare. that makes them a minor loser. >> what about us, the american people? >> if you avoid default, you win.

unemployment remains persistent and long-lasting. there is nothing in this deal that will change that any time soon. we are better off than we would be. it was an artificial crisis created by the politicians in the first place. >> finally, you have what i understand is a surprise winner? all of this. who is it? >> a surprise winner. bill clinton. why do i say bill clinton? >> why, yes? >> as three of the people that used to work for him, jack, james sperling and bruce reed, with essential figures negotiating this deal for president obama, so the legacy of bill clinton. >> bill clinton, the teflon man can even win in a crisis when he is not involved. >> major garrett, thanks. >> thanks. a top aide to president obama says the u.s. has the chance of a lifetime to take out al qaeda once and for all and needs to continue predator drone

attacks in pakistan. >> you need to go for the knock-out punch. i would not adjust programs today that are designed for the knock-out punch, especially with this window of opportunity we have got against al qaeda that was delivered to us by way of bin laden's death. >> i am joined by nbc news national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> lute says there is a limited opportunity to deal the knock-out punch. what does the government need to do? >> he said in the next six months if we could pick off the top 3-5 leaders of al qaeda, seems to be optimistic. cautiously optimistic. there is a chance to do that after the killing of bin laden. what he was reacting to was some pretty interesting comments by dennis blair, president obama's

former intelligence director that was fired last year. dennis blair raising questions about the drone strikes that are the principal counter crism target we are using to go after al qaeda, saying they may be counter productive in pakistan. when we do them unilaterally, we are alienating the pakistanis. he surprisingly called for pulling back. scaling back using them only when we have pakistani cooperation on the drone strikes. that's what the general was reacting to, saying, no, now is not the time to do that. we need to step up and continue the effort in northwest pakistan. >> three months since osama bin laden's death. >> there were a lot of reactions in early may that we were going

to get the rest of the top al qaeda leaders. we haven't. leon panetta said we may be close to strategically defeating them. we haven't picked off those top three to five leaders. while we have heard it is great to hear these kind of comments but until we actually see, are we going to get these next top leaders might be cause for a little bit of skepticism. >> michael isikoff, thanks. >> thank you. everybody is talking about the debt deal debate. topic of today's tweet of date which comes from actor, steve martin, from cowboys and aliens, congress? >> before we go, i want to let you know, i'm checking my twitter account and i want to say hi to rebecca campbell who wrote to me, how about a retweet and a shoutout to all of us in

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india, part of the largest traveling library in the world. it has more than 5,000 books in its collection. not everyone is still interested in the written word. college kids say they will give up sex for electronic textbooks. most students would trade dating and sex if it meant never having to carry a book again. sound extreme? well, koordi well, according to the study, ebooks are both lighter to carry and on the wallet. i bet they are more than happy to give up on the land line. the demand for land line telephones in college dorm rooms is solo, universities are disconnected them to save money. >> if you have ever been stung by a jellyfish, be glad it wasn't this one. so big the people who found it thought it was an alien. did a little research and figured out this four-foot long monstrosity was a jellyfish they had out in washington state. i already lost? there is still one more story.

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