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saying he'll fight for tax increases as the deficit spending debate enters its next chapter. a powerful new special congressional committee charged with finding an additional $1.5 trillion in savings over the next decade. the low-key signing ceremony at the white house came two hours after a 74-26 senate vote that sent the compromise plan from capitol hill to 1600 pennsylvania back after weeks of partisan sniping and jockeying in washington that we know leftmost of you disgusted. a new poll tonight said 77% of americans say congress acted like spoiled children during the debt debate....

To sit in a room, get together and figure this out and then once there is a compromise plan, that's when we will see whether democrats, independents, republican, tea party folks are happy with what this they have come up with, because i think everyone agrees, the way that things are going now can't continue. >> but jonathan, you know, i have a revolutionary theory. the president is not progressive enough. the numbers indicate a very progressive country and the president keeps going toward the republicans. look here, you know, to make your point on a comp prom my the president said the same thi...

Immediately after the president spoke, speaker boehner came out and gave them this reply. >> that is not acceptable to our members and we will not agree to it and we did not agree to t we are going to continue to fight for the largest cuts possible, including the policy riders that we passed in hr-1. >> of course. and sure enough, republicans came out with a new -- i'm gonna -- "compromise plan" involving an additional $7 billion in cuts for a grand total of $80 billion in cuts from president obama's budget proposal. so look i can't see how everybody else can't see this. it is 1 million% clear...

Cliff because we are going to weaken their hands on the larger spending issues. jon: a lot of tea party activists are gathering to say hey you've got to get serious about cutting we didn't send you to washington this time around to continue feeding the deficit monster. >> reporter: 87 freshman, that is how many republican freshman there are. and a lot of them owe the position to their themmers, who are standing hundreds of them soggy in the rain trying to send a message, look we elected you to cut spending, you've got to cut spending. the speaker can afford to lose a lot of those guys, there a...

Delicate negotiating. we can boil it down to this. the head honchos, president obama through his proximate see vice president biden and speaker john boehner seem to be moving toward a compromise plan. republicans originally wanted to cut 6% of the $1.65 trillion deficit projected for the rest of this fiscal year and democrats wanted to cut half of one percent. they've moved a lot closer. it looks like they could be headed to a 2% reduction. people are nuzzling around the number but they can't quite get there because there are social issues holding them back. jon: we are not talking about actua...