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I mean, it's a fairly sort of narrow number. at least right now. and i think republicans look at that and they say, well, everybody may hate us, but they're really not blaming us that much more than the democrats on this thing. it's not as bad as it was in '95. there were a lot of republicans back then that felt that newt should not have ultimately caved and should have kept pushing. so i think for them right now they don't see a huge down side to sort of playing this out right now. >> dana, there is only two countries in the world that do this appropriations process like this. the other is de...

Martha: the senate voted to temporary suspend the borrowing limit, basically giving the government the power to rack up even more debt at this time. republicans say they believe it will put pressure on lawmakers to pass their first budget in more than three years. >> the amendment we've got today will insure the debt limit increases are matched with equal cuts in federal program spending for the next 10 years. for a decade. no gimmicks or timing shifts but this will be a real cut in growth in federal spending what to make of that now? chris wallace, anchor of "fox news sunday." good to see you...

word. >> the truth is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. this is just not going to happen. >> as makeshift memorials spring up across norway, police and the public are searching for answers to friday's deadly attacks. the lawyer and suspect, anders breivik, the lawyer said his client is in insane. the suspect's father, who doesn't want to be identified, agrees. >> translator: no, i'll never have more contact with him in my darkest moments i think rather than killing all those people, he should have taken his own life. >> those are...

live on capitol hill correspondent. you've been following ins and o outs. i want to begin with the one offered in the last hour we heard from senate majority leader harry reid. what's in the latest plan. >> i was realizing this is $2.7 trillion in proposed cuts, brooke, on two sides of a piece of paper. obviously details need to be filled in what they are proposing raise it by this month, cut by this month. the cuts include $1 trillion immediately in discretionary spending. also a lot of money from war money. he's saying as afghanistan and iraq wrap up, there's about a trillion dolla...

Wants to raise the debt limit we want to cut # dollars in spending. it's that simple. if he wants $2 trillion in debt increases, we've got to cut $2 trillion in spending. we've offered a budget to cut $2 trillion in spending so we've shown the president plenty of areas in government where we can cut spending. bill: this debt ceiling now went up in flames last night. i mean, the vote was overwhelming. it was 97 yes, 319 no, 82 democrats voted, republicans on a no vote, the critics are saying it was political theater. >> the president and the treasury secretary had asked us for a clean debt limi...