effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief. >> dr. sanjay gupta will join us for a reality check. but up first, live action in the house of representatives and how it impacts a search for a deal to keep the government from a default most economist say could derail the already fragile recovery. this hour you see right there live debate. the house is expected by the end of this hour to pass the republican majority's cut, cap and balance plan. it would cut federal spending, then cap that spending and the house republicans also want a constitutional amendment requiring washington to balance its budget every year. as we watch the debate and the vote, this important footnote, this plan has absolutely zero chance of taking effect. so, why are you watching you might ask? this is for better or worse part of an important washington ritual, house republicans want their vote on their plan. the senate in the days ahead will also take votes on spending ideas that have no chance of taking effect. it may appear to you at home a waste of time. but in this town, it's a way to help make clear what is and what isn't possible. which is why the president today said, fine, take a few votes if you insist, but quickly, please. >> all right, if we continue to go through a lot of political posturing, if both sides continue to be dug in, if we don't have a basic spirit of cooperation that allows us to rise above immediate election-year politics and actually solve problems, then i think markets here, the american people, and the international community are going to start reacting adversary fairly quickly. >> down a bit yesterday, but the markets bounced back today, apparently convinced something will be worked out in washington before the august 2nd debt ceiling deadline. adding to the confidence perhaps a new senate plan. it is bipartisan, it includes a mix of spending cuts and new tax revenues and it has the president's general blessing. but it also has a lot of critics on both the left and the right. so, let's watch the house vote and assess where we stand in the broader debt and deficit debate with our chief white house court, jessica yellin, kate bolduan and gloria borger. the house republicans say it has absolutely no chance to pass, but the house majority leader eric cantor today saying the new republican majority wants to make an important point. let's listen. >> today, the house has the opportunity to show the people that sent us here that we are serious about turning the page on the failed fiscal policies that this town has been about over the last several decades, and begin to get the fiscal house in order. >> seems to be no question, kate, by the end of this hour they're likely to pass this plan, but then what on the house side? >> reporter: then what on the house side is a good question. i think eric cantor -- and you summed it up well -- this is going to end up being a symbolic vote for house republicans. it's allowing them to show their constituents very importantly as well as throw their support behind very much deeper spending cuts and stricter spending controls than realistically will be part of any kind of compromise deal to raise the house ceiling. john boehner, john, earlier before the vote, he acknowledged while he has high hopes for cut, cap and balance he said they're considering other options, a plan "b" if you will, but he's not tipping his hand on what plan "b" might be, but everyone points to the mcconnell/reid plan, as the fallback plan, but it doesn't seem that members are at that point quite yet. >> not quite yet, we've got a little bit of time for finger-pointing. and, jess, the president every couple of days has to come in and make clear where he stands. the conversation in town is almost to the degree that the president has been pushed to the sidelines and even speaker boehner has been pushed to the sidelines and the deal will be crafted in the senate. do they accept that in the white house? >> no. the white house is hopeful after the vote that maybe there will be a new understanding by the house leadership that they have to come off this rigid position that there has to be a dollar in spending cuts for every dollar that the debt ceiling is raised or that there can be no revenue increases and maybe there can still be a deal found. there's still a glimmer of hope for that. there's also an awareness that the mcconnell/reid plan is still the other likely other option, but there always is in the obama world, hope. >> hope in the obama world. i want you to listen, gloria, senator lamar alexander, he came out and embraced and made it the gang of seven. we'll break down the gang of six later, and we'll talk to two key members, democratic and a republican. and listen to lamar alexander were, again, he's a conservative republican from tennessee and he's saying look at these people who are saying, i get it, we have to do some revenue increases -- >> i mean, senators crapo and coburn and chambliss are three of the most conservative members of the republican caucus and they study something for six months and tell me it's good for the country, as one senator, i support it. >> it means a lotto the former governor and now the senator from tennessee. can they sell it to the house republicans? >> that's a big question. i think what we saw today both from president obama and someone like lamar alexander is this isolation that going on of the house republicans, saying, look, the gang of six got a deal, that's why president obama went out this to say it. mitch mcconnell's got a backup plan. john boehner and i were kind of working together and, well, who's out of that picture? the house republicans. and the polls are increasingly showing that the house republican point of view is not popular with the american public. i mean, there's a "washington post" out -- poll out tonight that says that more than three-quarters of americans see the republican leadership as being too resistant. >> however, however, let's listen as we go back to kate bolduan on the hill, the democrats are reading the polls. the democratic leadership going to the floor essentially saying, republicans, why are you wasting our time? >> the public has had it with this theater of the absurd that's going on. they want congress to come together as our president has suggested and do the most important thing that we can, create jobs for the american people. >> so, kate, the democrats clearly see the national poll trends, but i think what gets lost sometimes even in this town, especially across the country, the people are saying if the polls show that, why aren't the house republicans moving. more than 200 have signed a pledge saying they won't raise taxes. many of them ran in campaigns where they said this was the defining fight, and nanny of them despite the national polls, kate, am i right, feel they can go home to their district and say i did exactly what you asked me to do? >> reporter: that's absolutely spot-on. and to further the point. just today we're hearing of a concerted effort of house republicans in light of the more discussion about the mcconnell/reid plan, a concerted effort of 20 house republicans, possibly more, led by a tea party freshman, joe walsh, sent a letter to speaker boehner, who said we don't support the fallback plan, but they don't want the house speaker or eric can'ter to bring it to the floor because they do not want any compromise. they do not see a reason to budge, and simply put, they are not accepting any kind of -- anything to be -- that could be construed as a tax increase, albeit that's probably not part of the mcconnell/reid plan at this point. so, they don't see the advantage in compromise, some of them, at this point, because that's what they ran on, john. >> where do we go now? let it play out on capitol hill? does the president plan to bring them back around the cabinet room cabltable? >> yeah, i expect there will be more meetings. the president will try to nudge more to get his revenues involved and his balanced approached. the mcconnell/reid plan is the likely outcome, we know that. they don't know how it will end in the end. no one knows how it will end. >> a senior republican described it to me as the break-glass kit. you have it there behind the glass and in the emergency you break it and you pull it out, and, you know, he said the cut, cap and balance plan is a way for the house republicans to let off steam. >> let off some steam. we'll talk about it later in the hour, jess, gloria, kate, with us as the house debates their plan. we'll watch the vote. when we come back, presidential politics and an allegation from former aides of michele bachmann suggesting that he has a condition that could keep her from serving as president. our dr. sanjay gupta after the break. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. a complete four-course seafood feast for $15. start with soup, then have salad and biscuits followed by 1 of 7 delicious entrees and finish with something sweet. all for just $15. ending soon, at red lobster. one of the presidential candidates moves up the polls as far as fast as michele bachmann, you know the attacks and questions will soon follow. today bachmann responded a report in the "daily caller" quoting anonymous former staffers who says she suffers from headaches so incapacitating that they send her to the hospital. here's what the congresswoman told reporters today in south carolina. >> like nearly 30 million other americans i experience migraines that are easily controllable with medication. since entering this campaign for the presidency, i've maintained a full schedule between my duties as a congresswoman and as a presidential candidate traveling across the nation to meet with voters in the key all-important states, early states, of south carolina, iowa, and new hampshire. >> cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is with us. now, doctor, tell us, first, stress-induced migraines, what are we talking about >>? >> when you talk about migraines, you are usually talking about migraine headaches, and it's a bunch of neurological things associated with it, people can be nauseated and can have vomiting and sensitivity to light, but it's usually the headache that characterizes these types of things. they occur typically on one side of the head which is a way to characterize or differentiate it from other headaches. stress-induced, john, as you might triggers for the headaches and stress can be one of the common ones. people that have stress, lack of sleep associated with that, that can bring on one of the higrain headaches. a lot of people will have some sort of aura so to speak, they'll have some idea that the headache is going to come on. they may get an hour or so notice, but if it comes on and not treated, it could be painful and last four hours to three days, it can be a pretty big deal, john. >> could it incapacitate a president? >> well, you know, if someone is untreated, you know, it can be debilitating to where someone needs to be in a darkened room to be away from light, and take pain medications to control the headache. but when you talk about treatment, it can be treated easily. miss bachmann said 30 million people in the country have the migraine headaches, that's about right. it's a common ailment and something that neurologists have gotten a pretty good handle on if people seek out treatment. >> and you mentioned patients usually feel it, they have the aura, they feel it coming. what kind of medications are we talking about and there are side effects to worry about? >> divide the medications in two broad categories, one is the abortive medication, it's not something you take daily, but if you feel it coming on, you take the abortive medication to stop it from taking full hold. i think that's what she was referring to that she takes. she takes the medication if she needs it. the others are preventive medications and you could take them daily to try to prevent the headaches ever coming on or ever developing the aura even, and if you take those 80% to 90% of the people have pretty good results with this, with pretty good low side effect profile. there are some medications studied that may have impact on the heart. tolerated by tens of millions of people. >> we've asked the campaign we should make clear specifically which medications they take, and they've not responded and we hope they will. if i have pain, someone could tell me to take tylenol or percocet and there's a scale of drugs for simple pain. same here? >> yes. i think that's very fair to say. i will disclose to you, i suffer from migraines as well and the simple sort of tylenol or, you know, an ibuprofen won't cut it if it's come on full bore. if you talk about the type of medications you're describing, especially the narcotics, that's what some people are forced to take if they are not taking the preventive medications and the headache comes on full untreated then, you know, analgesics strong ones at that are sometimes the only option. >> dr. gupta, appreciate your insights. >> thanks, john. and later rupert murdoch said he's the best person to clean up the bribery and hacking scandal engulfing his british newspapers. members of the american postal worker's union handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? 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>> no. >> you are not responsible? who is responsible? >> the people that i trusted to run it, and then maybe the people they trusted. >> this total thing happened on your watch. mr. murdoch, have you considered resigning? >> no. >> why not? >> because i feel that people i trusted, i don't know what level, they let me down, and i think they behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company and me, and it's a debt to pay. i think that frankly i'm the best person to clean this up. >> both murdochs said they had no evidence, no evidence, that american victims of the 9/11 attacks were subjected to the sleazy tactics and rupert murdoch spoke of his personal apology to the family of millie doweler a british schoolgirl who was murdered in 2002 and whose cell phone messages were hacked by "news of the world." >> at no time do i remember being as sickened as when i heard what the doweler family had to endure which i think was last monday week. nor do i recall being as angry as when i was told that the "news of the world" could have compounded their distress. i want to thank the dowlers for graciously giving me the opportunity to apologize in person. >> let's check in with cnn's richard quest in london who was watching the proceedings throughout the day. and, richard, here you have richard rupert who built the global media empire, he said he's humbled and sorry but also said he's not responsible. how will that fly in the wake of this blossoming scandal? >> yes, his line that he wasn't responsible was a wonderful bit of orchestra when taken into four contexts. he said i'm not responsible, but because i put my trust in other people and they have let me down. now, americans may find that to be a little disingenuous, a little difficult, because the american responsibility idea of the buck stops here, right, the way to the president's desk, and even if you didn't make the decision, you carry the can. he was basically saying, i'm going to clean up the mess that other people who i trusted and other people have let me down and misled me. it's a -- it's a -- it's a nice argument, if you like, but i'm not sure it was the argument that needed to be made today. >> you say the buck stops here is one of the way we say things here. we also sometimes say, this might actually come from your side of the pond, the captain goes down with the ship. mr. murdoch made very clear he's not going and not considering it. he said he needs to stay and he needs to clean it up. but listen to him, yes, admitting that, yes, his tabloids really did do heinous things. >> invading people's privacy and listening to their voice mail is wrong. paying police officers for information is wrong. they are inconsistent with our codes of conduct and neither has anyplace in any part of the company that i run. the same sorry is not enough. things must be put right. no excuses. >> that's a pretty straightforward statement, no excuses, things must be put right. i guess my question is, it is at odds somewhat with this man's reputation as a guy who to his credit built a very wealthy, huge media cong