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That's why they're fighting until the end to get every penny. >> absolutely and you can bring it to the bank that both sides are going to be using this as an example during elections as to -- >> oh, yeah. >> why they emerged victorious. dana bash, always great to talk in with you. thank you so much. we go to ed henry for more on the budget deal. ed? >> reporter: if you needed any further evidence that the federal government is open, that's the chainsaw you hear behind me, they're cutting down a tree on the north lawn of the white house. the federal workers would not be doing yard work at the...

If we discover that there was anything inappropriate that we did, we will take all appropriate measures to remedy it. >> reporter: plenty of others made millions. a lobbying firm got more than $1 million a year for three years to push for libya to be taken off america's list of terrorist sponsors. it was all registered and above-board. the critics say you knew about his history and the chance that he could maybe never change and you made a deal with the devil. >> i didn't make the deal with the devil. the bush administration made the deal with the devil. i didn't do that agreement. the bush ad...

Whose real life job is unlocking encrypted investigations. right now, they're stumped on an old murder investigation, and they're asking for your help. >> reporter: in 1999, in this field near st. louis, police found the body of ricky mccormack, unemployed, 41 years old. authorities think high was murdered, but why? by whom? two pages of encrypted notes written by mccormack and in his pocket could find clues, but 12 years after they were found, no one has broken the code. could it just be gibberish? >> i don't think so. we have patterns. we have character repeating sequences. there are almost ...

That's deceptive. >> despite not being a traditional lobbying organization should have registered under the lobbying act than the traditional lobbying law and in this case they were working to bring intellectuals to libya who had foreign policy ties in america to elites where there was dick cheney, people in the state department, the defense department and really wanted these intellectuals to influence policy on libya. >> reporter: we spoke with eamon kelly a partner with the monitor group leading an internal investigation into the firm's dealings with libya. what do you say to the critics who...

Cuts, not social issues like women's health and the protection of our air and water. these are important issues that deserve discussion, just not during a debate about our budget. >> reporter: interesting a spokesman for the tea party told cnn that he was not very impressed by this compromise figure of $38.5 billion in spending cuts, that while both parties are touting this as the largest spending cut in american history, the fact of the matter is, it's, in the words of the tea party, trivial, compared to the larger federal budget. in fact that cut represents far less than 1% of the entire fed...