michele brockman said -- what would you tell them? >> i have a big job to do here. my goal is to get this bill passed, it into law, solve this debt crisis, and help get the american people back to work. >> also this afternoon, some members of the congressional caucus would not vote for the compromise to raise the debt ceiling and reduce the deficit. some said the deal was an attack on the most vulnerable and criticized the lack of tax increases on the wealthy. this is about 15 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] --2011. >> i have a statement from the progressive caucus that i'd like to share right now. the deficit reduction measures included in this deal will further harm our economy and hurt hard-working americans. with unemployment above nine% and stagnant economic growth, taking out of the economy and money that will place a heavier burden on working families. this is the wrong approach for our economy at the wrong time. it goes against cover basic values. for that reason, we an

then you had michelle brockman, who early on seemed really prepared for getting hit. she was ready for these attacks by tim. she seemed to get tired. frankly, at the end, i think she came up with a position on the debt ceiling. when she came up on the debt ceiling and said, we never should have raised it under any circumstances, that is a minority view even inside the house republican conference. that is not going to go over well with the business community. that makes it hard for her to take this leak from being a tea party favorite and making the leap to a possibility of becoming a mainstream republican candidate that the business community can get behind because they are acting like that answer. hindemith was able to stay on the side and above the fray. he took a couple of hits but did not fire back. again, he was more effective this afternoon against his hecklers than he was tonight. >> let's bring in the rest of the debate analysis team. we have ed schultz. thank you for joining us. we also have "washington post" columnist, eugene robinson and bloomberg view colu