rituals and things like that. >> satanic killing? not so far fetched for the time. this is a community steeped in religion, a church is never far away. and it was a time before the goth look or the notion of a romantic teenage vampire became fashionable. and this was a crime so horrendous it was easy to believe it was committed by a monster. >> when you're hearing all of this, what's going through your mind? >> exactly the same thing that that's what happened, that the devil actually come and got my baby. everybody was a suspect. i would have thought you did it back then. i mean, anybody i looked at i was mad at. i went into a world of my own. and i hated people. >> damien echols tells me he was also in his own world. >> the just beginning, he says, to hear about the three young boys found in west memphis. >> investigators found the children beaten to death. >> do you remember the first time you heard about this murder? >> getting up that morning. i mean, it was everywhere. you couldn't not hear it. it was on every news channel, on e

panic. >> i hope you really believe in your masters of satan. he's not going to help you. to me, this place where i stand is like hell on earth. >> reporter: all three would go to prison. damien echols, called the ring leader, was sentenced to death row, held in solitary confinement for a decade. johnny depp became so convinced of echols' innocence he gave voice to his prison journal. >> i can't remember what it's like to walk as a human being anymore. >> reporter: then, finally, new hope. new attorneys forced the state to perform dna tests, not available in 1993, on hair from the victims. the findings are dramatic. none of it is a match to the imprisoned west memphis three. and in fact, the dna points in a different direction. >> i don't think they would have let them walk free if they didn't understand that this would be a very powerful defense. because not only would the prosecutors have a very difficult time linking these three to the crime, the defense could very legitimately point to someone else, someone specific, and say it's more likely

--i don't know what a sit-in what a satan sandwich is. and in what we're seeing is the center of gravity move on the public debate. historically, has been the liberal position to spend x more on education and health and the conservative position to spend x-50%. now it is how much we are going to cut. that is a real defining difference in what had gone before. the other point that you cannot ignore is that once extortion has been used, and it has been used by the tea party -- we are going to bring it defaults, going to bring the government to shut down -- don't think it is going -- it isn't going to be used by democrats won a republican is in the white house. >> in that case, obama is an extorter because he would say becaus -- because he said he would veto if there was not revenues. it is ridiculous trade with the majority of democrats in the house in voting yes? now, is 50/50. did the majority of members of congress and the tea party vote yes? yes, 57%. who are the hostage takers here? >> washington is doing it in as possible.ashion as bu

. >> what is extraordinary is that nancy pelosi said earlier it was a satan sandwich with satan friesside to describe the deal, and what kind of deal is that for goodness sake? why should the american people have to put up with a satan sandwich with satan fries. >> i thought it was another congressman who said that and did nancy pelosi say that, too? >> apparently, yeah. >> well, that is surprising because she is careful and circumspect in what she says. well, there are a enormous amount of people in the country, republicans and democrats, who do not believe that this is making the economy better. it is like we have a stalled car, the economy and instead of trying to start it with jumper cables we are taking out the gas tank, and that what we are doing. and the president wasted precious time and i listened to valerie jarrett trying to defend him, but the bottom of the line is that he wasted all of the time instead of using the bully pulpit to convince the american people that it would not grow the economy and never resolve the debt crisis, and instead, he adopted the republican and th

this deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. if you lift the bun, will you not like what you see.ongressman emanuel cleaver, chairs the congressional black caucus. congressman, thanks very much for joining us, and explain what you meant by a sugar-coated satan sandwich. >> well, if you lift the bun or lift the paper on the outside of this deal, the contents are antithetical to everything that all the great religions of the world teach which is taking care of the poor, the elderly, the children and i don't think that we can find that kind of content in this -- in this legislation. there are some things that are good politically. there are some things that are also good i think legislatively, but when you look at the whole of this -- this bill, it's -- it's not a good deal. >> you're going to vote against it, congressman, is that right? >> well, i'm walking over to vote as soon as i get through, making up my mind, and the reason that i'm saying this is that the consequences of voting no may be more dire than the consequences of voting yes. >> it's hard to believe something could be

interesting comment from nancy pelosi that it was not a satan sandwich you had to eat, but satan sandwichsatan fries on the side. >> well, it was not perfect, but in washington, it was the art of the possible and what is most important is that we protect the united states reputation and full faith and credit that everyone around the world looks to and prethe aaa rating and appreciatable time, and nobody wanted to go through this debate through the holiday season and continue this cloud of uncertainty having a chilling effect on the economy. that is something that the president was determined to have, and we now have a deal if in fact it is passed be i the senate and signed by the president that will last until 2013. that is certainty that is important. >> and you think that when the american people voted for barack obama in such huge numbers and then when he promised change, they felt they were having to be eating satan sandwiches and doing deals with the devil? i mean, it is not quite what we hoped for, was it? >> well, it is a messy process and the president said it last night, but in t

where are we going to put the fries satan sandwich this sounds like sounds sounds like we've got satan in bed with oh there we go boehner and obama ok so that's what he would it would be for the fries so anyways palosi you obviously voted against this abomination right. we were forced into something and what it can live with that feeling nothing ever happened before so you are voting for it oh absolutely. it's never happened before by the way what were you forced to vote what you were forced to vote on yesterday included a committee that promises very pinky swears to reduce spending in the future in exchange for special procedural power thus creating the super congress or the whole of europe we warned you about meanwhile the recession isn't double dip americans are cutting back on spending if nothing else changes for us under this bill the debt will increase from fourteen to twenty one something trillion dollars over the next ten years if you ever needed a sick real life demonstration of how central economic planning doesn't work welcome to america in two thousand and eleven and in a r

i think that's the satan's sandwich. >> is that fair? we were willing to compromise and raise the debt ceiling but i don't understand when that became a democratic position? >> we have been raising the debt ceiling for generations. >> right. republicans and democrats? >> right. from either party. now, i will say, an admission against my party's interest, with when he was in the senate barack obama voted against raising the debt ceiling when president bush was president. >> he acknowledged and said that was wrong and that was political. >> correct. i think there's some principle at stake and in that sense i respect the tea party and the other conservatives. i don't agree with them and i think they would have done great damage to the country but at least they show they have the courage of their convictions. i wish the democrats would come forward with a jobs' bill. i hear the president and vice president today, were telling congressional democrats we get this done and then we pivot to jobs and i sure hope so. and it better be a pretty robu

and we're talking about now her new book "satan's sisters." now what i heard about this book, it's a fictional account of some women on a daytime talk show. that sounds awful familiar. >> why did you say "fictional"? it's a fictional account of a daytime talk show. >> fictional. "fictional." >> let me tell you this, whenever you're embarking on a new journey, which is writing fiction for me. i've written two best-selling nonfiction books. >> right. >> but i had never written fiction before. i knew there was a story inside of me but i had never explored that side. >> yeah. >> you really write what you know. i didn't need to stretch myself. i had the most soap opera-like life in the world. >> right. >> so if i think just play off my life, i could write a book of fiction. this book, "satan's sisters," has every plot line or character -- i should say every plot line and character is based on someone i worked with, worked for, interviewed, was interviewed by, or prosecuted. >> wow. >> and think about all of those people that i have encountered, i -

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he called it a satan sandwich, she said it was probably a satan sandwich with a side order of satan fries. >> we cannot allow the extreme tea party republicans to advance their agenda to dismantle our government while rewarding the extreme tactics with this bad deal. >> i understand that this train is leaving the station. but it's going in the wrong direction. >> and then on the other side i have to pause because i don't see any sacrifice. >> if this bill passes, it may be the single worst piece of public policy to ever come out of this institution. >> do you agree that it's the single worst piece of public policy? >> i wish the deal had been better, i wish president obama had stk to his guns, talking about everything from corporate private jets to oil company subsidies to hedge fund managers and dug in there, he wasn't able to. >> what happened? >> a lot of democrats are saying he's not tough enough, some are saying, put his own re-election interests ahead of the party. >> the president needed to go around the country and educate people about who's side are you on? this isn't liberal, co

back then there were a lot of unsolved crimes linked to possible satanism.t there was some sattanic ritual in the deaths o these three boys. they focused on these three. they were sort of outcasts. they stood out and they were instantly considered targets. they were able to get jesse to admit to a confession. he's known to be borderline retarded. since then, as time went by and emotions went away. they were looking closely at the facts in this case. there were no facts, no pieces of evidence that linked these three men to those three boys and not linking those men at all to that crime scene. >> i talk to the filmmakers with "paradise lost" embedded with these men for 1 years and kronling their lives. there were a number of celeb fis there today. who is in there? and why has this particular story become such a cause celeb. >> i saw natalie maynes from the dixie chicks. vetter from pearl jam. what atraktsed so many people to this. these kids were sort of odd. they were outcast, loners. they were singled out. that resonated with a lot of people who shared their

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but when the rhetoric is satan sandwich, satanic the bill, right, and nancy pelosi said there were satan fries with the satan sandwich. >> a real happy meal. >> exactly. >> howie, this was a manufactured crisis. so in a sense it was a political debate more than an economic debate. it was pushed. let's face it, by a group of tea party freshmen in the house largely and pushed forward into a crisis situation right down to the deadline. so i guess in this case it's really more understandable to treat it as a political story. but in it, the economic consequences get lost. >> let me play for you, terry, part of a scorching commentary by keith old man in which he talked about the role of journalists. >> it will do no good to suddenly remember the media to remember the origins as the free press, the watch dog of democracy envisioned by jefferson. they are too busy trying to get exclusive details about exactly how the bank robbers emptied the pockets to give a damn to tell anybody what they looked like or which way they went. >> i'd say keith is striving a little hard himself there, maybe to get

. >> this is a satan sandwich. [laughter] >> stephen: yes, for the democrats this is a satan sandwich, a beelze-b-l-t, a because the deal gives the republicans $2.4 trillion in cuts with no increase in taxes or closing loopholes for corporations and the rich. in return, the democrats get a rise in the debt ceiling that lasts until 2013. you know you've won a negotiation when the opponent's only demand is not to have to negotiate with you again for a long time. wlaf laugh -- [laughter] as speaker of the house john boehner said, the republicans got 98% of what they wanted. so obviously republicans are thrilled. >> from the republican party's point of view we can declare victory. i'm not ready to vote for this. >> this say victory for our leadership. i can't vote for this. >> this is not something i am inclined to support. >> i'm not inclined to support it. [laughter] >> stephen: yes. this is a victory but it could have been so much victory-er! what about a balanced budget amendment? what about a tax cut? what about m

what better time to take the hot seat, with a satan sandwich. here to challenge me are jemuh green and former fox contributor and larry gatlin, here with his brothers last night. and great to have you guys here. i've got to tell you, jehmu, i love the sugar-coated satan sandwich. is that how you're seeing this. there are folks on the left that are not happy with this compromise and i think that that that we're moving in the right direction, listening to the two tea party congressmen, i had to be reminded of larry gatlin's song. she used to be somebody's baby. they used to be somebody's baby, they're going to get the blame for this. they've gotten so much as grass roots organizers and gotten what they want and two-thirds of the way and we're find with the fault we're not going to compromise, that's not acceptable. >> one of the arts of governing, sometimes you have to compromise, it's like marriage, you don't get everything you want. like mick jagger and keith richards first presented that. >> you can't-- >> if you start talking about my songs, i

seriously satan sandwich who cares i'll tell you what they could be talking about instead of sandwiches or what donald trump had to say how about the way that this deal is actually going to change america the way it will help get our economy out of the gutter the way that will probably keep unemployment high won't ask anymore of the rich it will only hurt those who are still suffering so this is the beginning of the end of the new deal of so many those accomplishments of the twentieth century that most people feel made america great because that's what people are going to remember you know how about the space program the first man to walk on the moon the first lunar car that nasa made to drive on the moon that by the way happened forty years ago that's what other countries aspired to be but don't talk about that anymore so it's all about the he said she said on capitol hill and americans are feeling it a new poll from the hill out today finds that one third of likely voters now think that america's best days are over and they're probably right and those half of likely voters from those

police called the killings part of a satanic ritual led pie eckels, who was put on death row. and meekly followed by baldwin and miskelly who received life sentences. >> i'm an outcast, i'm a freak. >> reporter: documentaries over the two decades since described the three not as murderers but as misfits. celebrities like actor johnny depp took up their kauds, as well as eddie vetter of pearl jam and natalie mane of the dixie chicks, who were in the courtroom friday when the three agreed to a legal maneuver that lets them maintain their innocence while acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them. >> they would have to come with some concrete, physical evidence, and i they didn't have any. >> reporter: a local sprr defiant and stands by the original convictions. >> i have no reason to believe that there was anyone else involved in the homicide of these three children but the throw defendants who pled guilty today. >> reporter: outside the courthouse, the three were greeted by supporter, even to include some of the victims' families. >> there's no winners here.

you have been quoted coming out of your caucus as calling this agreement a sugar-coated satan sandwich. was that indeed your quote? is that how you feel about this deal? >> it's a very accurate quote. what i am saying is if you lift the bun, what you see is antitheical to what all the great religions teach. take care of the poor. take care of the aged. when you look at the phone calls >>> president obama just a short time ago saying there's a deal on the table to avoid the first ever default in the history of this country to raise the debt ceiling. we also heard from both mitch mcconnell, harry reid and john boehner has given a power point presentation to the members of his caucus. so tomorrow we have a little bit of a schedule. i'm just handed the senate schedule. they are going to come in tomorrow morning. the republicans are going to meet at 10:00. the democrats are going to meet at 11:00. but the idea on both sides is that there will be a vote. now, the question is, what's going to happen over on the house side? joining me is democratic congressman from missouri eman manual cleaver

at a satanic altar. >> my first date was with a satan nick altar with blood there?were you thinking? >> did bill maher pay you to play his show? again, as i painstakingly detail in the book, it was a different time in my life and perhaps i was a little too candid for television, but my goal wasn't to go on the show just for the sake of going on national television. i went on the show to try to reach a younger audience with a message that, you know, when i was 16, by the way, this was 25 years ago, you know, i, too, was trying to find my way in the world. and ultimately i did. and you know, people have said do you regret making those comments, and i go into detail about what my thinking was. but the more self-inflicted wound was how we chose to respond. and the ad was a big mistake. >> that brings me -- yeah, that brings me -- >> oh, don't tell me you're going to play that ad. >> i'm afraid we are. >> oh. >> let's have a look at how you made a small problem ten times worse. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. i'm you. none of us are perfect, but none of us

it is not satin, a satan sandwich.emocrats get the short end of the stick or did they compromise? >> i would argue they compromised, a bit too much. i wouldn't go as far as to say it was a satan sandwich. there are clearly some winners and losers out there. they have come out with a big winner. peen while, working for middle class people and small business owners. we are the ones doing the bulk of the sacrificing. >> senator bob corker said this. >> this is not sch that made much of a dent. they had to put all on the debt issue. this is in essence is a punt. all of those that care so deeply about deficit spending, the lasting impression we are giving the world, potentially talking about downgrading our credit rating, we need to make some money. that is through revenues we are not going to get. >> senator corker is right. all we are doing is kicking the can down the road. i think tara and i would both agree, both sides, republicans and democrats, can't be happy. the republicans are happy we don't have a tax increase. we

as you know, congressman cleaver said this is a satan sandwich. >> it probably is, with some satan friesthe side. >> reporter: we sat down together not long before the vote. >> we've never held up the president like this. we're not going to lift the debt limit unless you go to this extreme. we all know we have to reduce the deficit. democrats support that. we want to make the cuts and the rest. but in a way that does not hurt our economic recovery. and i'm afraid this bill may do that. >> reporter: you think this is really going to hurt real people? >> well, i hope not. how could we have severe cuts to our domestic agenda, the education of our children, for example, and not one red cent coming from those who can afford to share the sacrifice that is necessary to reduce the deficit? >> reporter: not only was speaker boehner working to get members to vote yes, his second in command, eric cantor, worked hard to get republicans in line, too. >> this is a big deal. you know, we are really trying to demonstrate that -- i don't want him to run into that. >> reporter: careful. >> that we've come

a democratic congresswoman who voted no and called eight a sugar coated satan sandwich."r 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

i mean, if this was a cabinet of satan worshipers, the question would never come up. if it was a cabinet of satan workers going out and read and will gross they would know they were going to do. but somehow this so-called religion is able to mask and cover up their activities and say it's their constitutional right to do this. >> where do they get their money's? >> the money comes really office went in off the backs of thousands of workers that believe that they're doing the right thing. that they are involved in the religion of their ancestors, they are involved in something that they've been brought up in, a cultural thing more than a religion really. and they are in construction. they are in manufacturing. and i would say probably a majority of the money comes right out of the taxpayers pockets. it's from public works projects. billions of dollars worth of public works projects in las vegas, all over the last. and even back east, here back east. they are manufacturing. they produce top secret government projects for military. they work on the latest generation nigh

>> i'm getting hungry. >> let's ask. >> congressman emanuel cleaver. >> what's a satan sandwich?ents? >> well, you know, you've got a little bit of sour dough on one side of the sandwich for poor people. >> right. >> and then you have some onions for people who are on unemployment benefits and realize that's not going to be in the deal. it's got a lot of stuff in it. very few things that are good. you serve it, of course, with a demon drink. one of the things we have to do here in washington and you are talking about it but you're missing one ingredient. one of the things we have to do is, if we brewed over this deal, this package and it is not good for a lot of reasons, you talked about some, it's not going to make that much of an impact, if we brood over it, they're taking place post satan sandwich passage is the fact that we don't have a level of civility, not bipartisanship, civility, in congress, to do anything. when you have a situation where somebody can shout out a name at the president and then get over a million dollars in contributions, something is wrong. and the publ

as you know, congressman cleaver said this is a satan sandwich. >> it probably is, with some satan fries on the side. we were forced into something gn order to lift the debt ceiling. that's never happened before. >> so you are voting for it. >> oh, absolutely. we have to get this over with. we have to get to work putting people back to work and every day that we were stuck i ithis negotation was a day that we weren't doing everything we -- in our power to create jobs. >> bitter pill? >> well, it's more than bitter pill. what would be the next stage up from a bitter pill? >> so if it takes the democratic votes to do this, to avoid default, you're going to deliver them? >> the democrats are not going to have the country default. i'm not saying they're happy about it. at the end of the day, we're voting for a bill that has severe cuts in our domestic agenda. that impedes our economic growth. >> you think this is really going to hurt real people? >> well, i hope not. how could we have severe cuts to our domestic agenda, the education of our children, for example, and not one red cent coming

. >> congressman cleaver said it was a satan sandwich. >> it probably is. with satan fries on the side. >> now the deal no one likes moves to the senate. lawmakers are ready to move on. but there is one person who doesn't care how ugly the process has been. gabby giffords tweeted last night "the capitol looks beautiful and i am honored to be at work." scott goldberg, abc news, washington. >>> back here, members of a presidential task force are scheduled to convene in palo alto today to talk about jobs. the president's council on jobs and competitiveness will be asking for ideas from silicon valley businesses on how the public and private sectors can team up to create jobs. the heads of aol, netflix and the chief operating officer of facebook are expected to be on hand. the meet willing be held at the -- meeting will be held at headquarter of vmware. they invite you to watch the event online. find out more on the website, abc7news.com. >>> police in oakland are hoping that two dozen newly rehired officers who start work this weekend will help with a recent s

. >> as congressman cleaver said this is a satan sandwich. >> it probably is with some satan fries on the side. >> reporter: now the deal no one likes moves to the senate and lawmakers are ready to move on. >> i have constituents i'm anxious to see, friends i teed to visit with. >> reporter: but there is one person who doesn't care how ugly the whole process has been, gabby giffords tweeted last night the capitol looks beautiful and i am honored to be at work. rob and tanya. >> scott, does this mean that gabby could be returning to congress full time? >> reporter: no, she's going to stick around washington for a few days. there while her husband celebrates the last flight of the space shuttle "endeavour" then back to houston and back to rehab. as for her re-election we don't know yet. she hasn't made a decision yet. she doesn't have to until next may. >> and nonetheless an extraordinary moment. we'll have a lot more about gabby giffords coming up. >>> investors an the world have been keeping a nervous eye on the debt talks as the u.s. remains the world's biggest economy despite the de

what do you make of that satan sandwich? >> well, representative cleaver has colorful language.are moving to a time when all of the experts have told us that this is likely to make the recovery delayed and maybe set it back. >> well, that is what i want to ask you, congressman, because there are a lot of economists conservative and liberal who agree with you on this, so why this whole narrative lately about cutting spending, good, raising taxes, bad. >> well, i mean, i listen to part of the interview with my friend mr. walsh earlier, and you know, it is absolutely not true what he said. the majority of the public poll after poll said they wanted a balanced solution, that included some modest tax increases, and particularly on the most well off, and reform the tax system, and have a balanced approach, and have people share in this effort, but what has happened is that because they were willing to hold the economy hostage, there were a number of people willing to drive it over the cliff, and we is never, ever had the debt ceiling held hostage like this to the exclusion of everythi

house of representatives, to vote against the satan sandwich.hen they go up for reelection, lord voldemort, i was standing against him. that's what the president is supposed to do, provide the cover necessary -- let me be clear, it's a lousy deal, there needed to be no debt ceiling deal, there needed to be a clean vote to raise the debt ceiling, then we needed to have this budget discussion, but with it done these folks can stand against it, rail against it, that gets them reelected in their districts. the moderates, blue dogs, they can now sort of take cover underneath it, look, we went along with what the republicans did. it's a complex coalition to keep together and as ugly as this sausage is, it may get them reelected in 2012. >> is there something that the democrats need to be thinking about and the white house needs to be thinking about in terms of energizing the base? we saw in 2010 was not a lot of democratic voters going out and doing identifiable thing, we saw in 2010 a large number of republican voters rushing to the polls and electin

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. >> congressman cleaver said this was a satan sandwich. >> it probably is with some satan fries on the side. >> democrats are forced to come out in favor of that satan sandwich to save the american economy, but you still can't make some republicans happy. >> what we're doing here in washington is about to destroy the country. >> tonight, complete coverage from capitol hill including vermont senator bernie sanders and minnesota congressman keith ellisson and i take on one of the tea partiers effectively holding the country hostage, kansas congressman tim mulecamp. the only thing standing in the way of the most massive debt reduction package in american history is the united states senate. shortly after 7:00 p.m. eastern this evening, the republican-controlled house of representatives voted to pass $2.1 trillion in cuts over the next decade. 174 republicans and 95 democrats voted in favor of the package, 95 democrats and 66 republicans voted against the package. the senate is going to vote the measure on -- on the measure tomorrow. if it passes, president obama will sign it on the very d