it's a deal. an 11th hour agreement on capitol hill keeps the government running. but who was the biggest winner, and is there another fight on the horizon? we have live reports and reaction from washington. police video of an arrest. cops try to explain what happened after the mother of one of basketball's best players is put behind bars. comfort food. a new study tries to explain why french fries, potato chips, chee-tos are so appealing when you're down. plus -- >> these really do look uncannyly like human teeth. it would be like bitten by a person. >> can you believe that? they call that the mutilator. could this fish be behind a series of bizarre deaths? good morning, i'm alex witt. welcome. creepy pictures right there. let's go to new word from president obama this morning after a last-minute deal in congress kept the government from shutting down. here's how it all played out. just after midnight, the house followed the senate in approving a six-day stopgap measure to keep the government funded. the bill cuts nearly $38 billion from federal spending. once the final version is approved, it will keep washington running for the rest of the year. compromise came after the gop dropped a contentious provision to strip federal funds from planned parenthood. still the measure bans public money from going to abortion procedures in washington, d.c. here's what president obama had to say earlier this morning. >> like any compromise, this required everyone to give ground on issues that were important to them. i certainly did. this is good news for the american people. it means that small businesses can get the loans they need. our families can get the mortgages they applied for. folks can visit our national museums and parks. and hundreds of thousands of americans will get their paychecks on time. including our brave men and women in uniform. >> both parties are claiming at least partial victory. democrats fought back the most controversial parts of that proposal while republicans are laying claim to sweeping cuts. >> if the american people have to make tough choices and they're doing it every day, so should their leaders. that's our responsibility. all 100 of us. and 435 members of the house. >> we had our opportunity tonight to decide whether we wanted to repeat history or make history. had we chosen to repeat history, we would have allowed a government shutdown. instead we decided to make history. >> aides to house speaker john boehner say it is the best deal the gop was going to get. some members of his own party including congresswoman michele bachmann who released this statement. the deal that was reached tonight is a disaappointment for me and for millions of americans who expected $100 billion in cuts. sadly, we are missing the mandate, given us by voters last november, and for that reason i voted against the continuing resolution. here with me now, capitol hill correspondent luke russert. another good saturday morning to you. >> top of the morning to you, alex. >> apparently this deal maker for the dems was removing the block on planned parenthood funding. how did that happen and what do republicans get in exchange for that? >> well, essentially during the negotiations, vice president joe biden and president obama both said that democrats would not allow planned parenthood to be defunded in any way. that's where they really drew the line in the sand telling speaker boehner it would not occur. speaker boehner said okay. i have to take this back to my conference. he brought it back to his conference and really it was approved mainly because a lot of republicans who i spoke to including one republican senator who's fairly conservative said we did not want to look like we were going to put the country through an ideological purity test in order to avoid a government shutdown. essentially saying that if you were to shut down on the issue of abortion, it would look really bad because it's such a contentious issue that's been fought about in the united states for over 40 years. people on the left or the right, there really is no way in which you can feasibly say to the citizenry, we're going to shut down the government over this issue. hence why boehner was able to bring that to his conference. they accepted that argument and moved forward. in exchange, though, this was directly tied to getting more money in cuts. some have speculated this could have been a $2 billion deal in the sense they were able to get more billions in cuts by democrats giving them the cuts and saying you can have these savings. but on top of that, we get our planned parenthood. so it's interesting how that issue was so fundamental in averting a government shutdown. >> okay. this deal also gives republicans, luke, a vote on repealing health care reform, right? >> right. that was part of the deal here. which is saying, look. instead of having these controversial riders within the legislation, now because we're not going to deal with them in the financial budget bill, we're actually going to have up or down votes. so you're going to see in the united states senate, the united states house, three up-or-down votes. one on the one i spoke about, defunding planned parenthood, another one on the epa and their ability to regulate greenhouse gases and another one on the president's health care policy and whether or not to defund it. what's this going to do? this is going to put both sides on the record which is what conservatives and liberals both wanted, but it's going to put moderate senators particularly in a tough place. watch for guys like scott brown on this vote. folks like joe manchun from west virginia. folks who have liberal citizenry in their individual states heading into elections in the next few years, they're going to have to keep an eye on this type of up or down vote in the united states senate. >> okay. we'll watch for them because you told us to, luke russert. thank you very much. >> always a pleasure. well, the deal is welcome news to all federal employees and especially our men and women in uniform because they would not have been paid in the event of a government shutdown. at least not on time. nbc's ron molt tt is live at ft bragg, north carolina. i'm sure there are a lot of smiles there at ft. bragg considering people are going to get their paychecks. >> reporter: absolutely, good morning, alex. feels like a cold front has come through, so i can't say this is hot off the presses, but high school the headline folks were hoping to wake up to. the front page of "the fayetteville observer." a lot of these military families were sweating what they were going to do financially if the government did, in fact, shut down. service members were being told, you still have to clock in for work. we'll figure out the pay stuff a little later. as you might imagine, that did not go over well with a lot of those service members and their families. a lot of them told us yesterday that they live paycheck to paycheck. it's not because they're living extravagantly. they say their military pay basically covers necessities, food, housing, transportation, utilities, things like that. not a lot of money left over at the end of the month for a rainy-day fund. so they were really concerned about how their lives were going to be turned upside down if those paychecks stopped flowing. so next friday, the 15th, they will, in fact, get those paychecks in full and on time. they're obviously relieved by that. defense secretary robert gates tried to clear up some of the confusion about the pay yesterday saying that yes, you will get paid. that's the good news. the not-so-good news is it might not be on time. all of that has passed us. but what might linger longer is this resentment a lot of folks have about the politicians in washington. they felt that they allowed this conversation to get really fevered this week. and they were stuck right in the middle of it. one soldier told us if anyone should be exempt from all this worry, it's us. we're risking our lives in afghanistan and iraq for this country. and we should not have to worry about whether we're going to get paid for that service. and so that might linger just a few days longer. maybe longer than a few days because of what they've gone through this past week. but suffice it to say, this is the headline that's brought those smiles to ft. bragg and other posts and bases around the country and world. >> whether hot or chilly off the presses, that way with the banner headlines. thank you very much. the one-week funding extension cleared the house with just 70 representatives opposing it. but in that group of nays, 28 republicans, 42 democrats. joining me now is republican congressman from louisiana, john fleming. and representative fleming, good to see you. good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> i know that you supported this bill. what did john boehner say to you that convinced you to back it, and how much convincing did you need? >> well, i really was a skeptic and have been a skeptic. i voted against some of the other initiatives that the speakers brought along. but you have to think of this as a four-round contest. number one is to change the spending paradigm in washington. and that's exactly what we accomplished with the vote last night. this is the largest cut in spending in modern times. from our federal government. number two, pretty soon there's going to be a tough debate on raising the debt limit. then there will be the debate on the 2012 budget which will be paul ryan's pathway to prosperity. and then finally after we get all the members of congress on record on their votes, we're going to have a terrific contest in 2012 over who's going to be the president of the united states. who is going to lead us back to prosperity? and also who is going to control the house and the senate? so this is just the first round, alex. and i think we want it for the american people. >> representative fleming, though, you say that you're a skeptic. how about the tea party members there? and to what extent they pushed back with john boehner? i mean, what was their reaction when all was said and done? >> i think it's mixed. many of them get it that this is only the first bite of the apple. that whether it's $39 billion or whether it's $61 billion, we're only talking about a small difference when you look at the $6.2 trillion that we plan to save over the next ten years under paul ryan's plan. so, again, it's the ideological switch here. we've reset the baseline of spending for washington. this is a monumental change in direction. but unfortunately, for some, it's just not enough immediate dollars. but you can't do it just in one vote. it's a stepwise process. >> indeed. are you concerned that the so-called tea party members of your caucus could hold up important legislation like this and maybe damage the party as a whole with the more independent voters that, look, we know everybody seeks that. it's that middle independent 10% or so that really makes a difference in these closely held elections. >> i think there will be a few tea party members of our tea party caucus. and i am, by the way, one of the 40 or so members of the tea party caucus. and i beav in the precepts of the tea party. i think many of us will vote for this, and i think it will pass the house without much problem. >> you don't see any long-term changes before the vote on friday? >> no. i think this is something where this thing is, you know, we only have two or three days to get this done. there's not time to put this through a big process of amendments and so forth. so it's going to be a take-it-or-leave-it deal. >> that's because you guys have to vote on it by wednesday. >> yes. >> democrats compromised by increasing the amount of cuts more than sixfold from the president's initial proposal. does this give the democrats any sort of leverage when they try to debate the 2012 budget? >> i really think, as i say, this is a game changer. no longer will we be debating in washington whether or not to cut spending. the debate from now on is going to be how much to cut spending. and remember that there are some awesome provisions of this bill that i really like. for instance, it's going to require audits of some of the aspects of obama care which we are terrified about. the waiver process. the picking the winners and losers. also a defund, the irs enforcement of the individual mandates. it also defunds abortions. in d.c., the dornin amendment. so we really have wins on several fronts, both on the spending and the policies. so i think it fundamentally changes the direction we're going in congress and sets the stage for what's going to happen over the next year and a half. >> give me a temperature gauge of what is going to be happening over the next year and a half. is it going to be hot? warm? tepid? cool? i mean, what kind of a mess are we looking at here? >> this fight, this round one is nothing like what you're going to see over the debt ceiling debate. that's going to be a very tough one. and i can tell you that it's not going to pass unless something fundamentally is added to that that's going to change america forever. whether it's a balanced budget amendment, defunding, if not relegr repealing obama care. it's going to be a big, tough fight. we've got to get to the ultimate, which is an fy'12 budget which is going to take us over the next ten years. and then finally, who is worthy to represent the american people in washington? america's going to be watching what we do on these first three rounds. >> as will we, sir. thank you very much from louisiana. representative john fleming, republican. thank you. >> thank you, alex. this wednesday, the house plans to vote on that long-term budget bill that would fund the government for the rest of the year. the fiscal year, that is. the one-week extension that passed early this morning expires, though, on april 15th. a deadly shooting in the netherlands. at least six were killed after a gunman opened fire at a shopping mall in amsterdam. police say 11 were wounded. four of them are in critical condition. authorities say the suspect later shot himself to death. we turn now to libya where a rebel spokesman says opposition forces successfully drove back an assault on the city of misrata by government troops. rebels say they drove back an attack on the eastern flank of the city where residents have been wedged between bloody clashes now for several weeks. it has not broken the stalemate with moammar gadhafi's forces. at least five people were reportedly killed. more on the 11th hour deal keeping the government running. who are the winners and losers? 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>> great, thank you. so pat, is this a win for moderates? if you look at the people who voted against the bill, they tend to be on the extreme wings of both parties, the progressives on the left, conservatives on the right. so is it a win? >> well, i think it's a real -- let me just speak as a conservative. i certainly think it's a win for republicans in the sense that boehner got $38 billion. i mean, no one expected more than $30 billion, and they thought they were pushing to get that, and he kept pushing for $40 billion. and to get that i think is a tremendous achievement. i understand when he walked back to the caucus, he got a standing ovation. there's some true believers in the tea party caucus that wanted $60 billion or nothing. i understand that. but overall, i really think the republicans have to be very happy with the success they've gott gotten. and the country is pretty happy there's no shutdown. >> peter, does that make the democrats sad that they got that much money and that, you know, you're hearing john boehner gets a standing ovation? >> well, sure. i mean, sad in the sense that we don't think -- we do think those cuts are too much. but, you know, but i think, look, alex, in something like this, if this government had shut down, it wouldn't have been like 1995. they wouldn't have paid government workers, the military would be out there without their paychecks. i mean, this was, i think in many ways a lot more serious than what happened before. but i think the other thing is this fracture within the republican party is still there. phillips who is the head of tea party nation said in a tweet last night, this is it. we're going to primary boehner next year. sarah palin tweeted she was against this deal. so, you know, it ain't over yet. but on balance, alex, i think, you know, a lot of us, a big sigh of relief last night around 11:00. >> what is your reaction to that, pat? i mean, who's running the show in the republican party here? >> well, boehner's running the show, but there's some very powerful voices that are dissenting. but i will say this. i mean, boehner got down to it, he pushed this thing, i thought his deal yesterday took care of the military all the way through the end of the year and then go for your $40 billion was a tremendous play. and then i think reid did a great job saying we'll keep the military and we'll get rid of your planned parenthood option. and so i think when they finally got together, there's no doubt about it that they can't -- look, the key question is this, alex. if you're going to be $60 billion, the tea party wants 100%, you're going to shut down the government. the question is should we take 60% of what we got and then come back later for more or should we shut down the government? and in that call, i think boehner made the right decision. and the last analysis, i don't think reid and the democrats who gave up an awful lot could give up much more. >> pat, i think you're losing a few fans in the tea party, i'm just saying. hey, peter, the president started off this process by offering just over 6 billion bucks in the cuts. final amount, about six times that amount. so does that show the power of the tea party, and should democrats be concerned? >> well, you know, i think -- first of all, there are always starting positions, the $60 billion starting position, the $6 billion starting position. a lot of us talked about it it was going to be in the 30s, no question. one of the things that's important, alex, is this president i think did a superb in this last ten days. he came out when he should. he brought people together when he should bring them together. he made a great statement last night. he showed serious leadership in this process. he showed one thing that i think that a lot of us who have known him for a while realize, this is not some crazy, wild-eyed socialist. this is not someone who wants to expand government all over the place. this is a very, very solid, reasonable pragmatic president. and i think his stock is going to go up after this, no question. >> so pat, then, in addition to john boehner being a winner, was the president a winner here? >> i think the very fact that the president presided over the deal and he got the deal and he was cool at the end, i think what the vast majority of the american people, he's a winner here. there's no doubt about it. but alex, i mean, the congressman you were talking to from louisiana, we're looking at paul ryan's $6.2 trillion cut over ten years. i think that will pass the house. they're going to wheel that over to the senate. but then the real war's going to start. this was a preliminary engagement. this was the battle of bull run. and peter may not like it, but the confederates won at bull run. >> i'm not going there, pat. pat's right. pat's right, alex. this is the beginning of -- we've got gettysburg, but moving right along. there is going to be a real desire now to put everything out on the table, to come to some kind of agreement for the future. you know, paul ryan, in my view, his tax policy is insane. you know, some of his ideas are good to look at. you know, this is all going to be debated and discussed. and it's going to be tough sledding. there's no question. >> absolutely. if your racing thoughts keep you awake... sleep is here, on the wings of lunesta. and if you wake up often in the middle of the night... rest is here, on the wings of lunesta. lunesta helps you fall asleep and stay asleep, so you can wake up feeling rested. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions, such as tongue or throat swelling, occur rarely and may be fatal. side effects may include unpleasant taste, headache, dizziness and morning drowsiness. ask your doctor if lunesta is right for you. get lunesta for a $0 co-pay at lunesta.com. sleep well, on the wings of lunesta. align can help. only align has bifantis, a pantented probiotic that naturally helps maintain your digestive balance. ♪ ooh baby, (what) can i do for you today? 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>> i think it's true to say it's more quirky. in the past we've dealt with dangerous fish, big, seven-feet long, big teeth. we're now getting into fish which are more dangerous. there's something in south america which kills you with electricity. there's something in japan that's said to grab you with handlike appendages. there's something in south america which can stab you and cause your flesh to rot. >> there are fish that can kill you. i mean, what about this mutilator we're seeing. the teeth are creepy, jeremy, because they look like human teeth. >> exactly. it looks like a set of dentures there. we were alerted to that by internet reports coming out of papua new guinea saying that men bathing in the river had been castrated by something and bled to death as a result of those injuries. >> oh, my gosh. do you believe that to be true what you know about these creatures? >> a lot of the internet is unreliable. that's certainly a story that gets your interest. we went there and found there was something behind this. it turns out it's native to the amazon that has been moved there as officially introduced. normally it feeds on nuts that fall from trees. it crushes those open. but the natural food doesn't exist in papua new guinea, so they were looking around for something similar. >> how strong is that fish? look at you. you're holding it. and it's hard to -- i mean, are they just ferocious? >> they are very muscular. they feed normally on this very high-protein organic diet. and they have very, very strong jaw muscles. i wouldn't want to put my fingers actually in the mouth. it could make a bit of a mess of me. >> these fish are meant to eat seeds and nuts which i find most interesting. one doesn't associate fish with eating seeds and nuts necessarily. how does that work? >> that works because in the amazon you have a very, very big sort of fluctuation of water level. 40, 50 feet. so when the forest is flooded, the swim can fish under the trees and wait for nuts to fall. it's one strategy for -- it's a different food source there. >> do you just go from one frightening moment to the next on this? i mean, look. the name of the show is "river monsters." >> well, i mean, fishing, people who fish will know that a lot of the time nothing happens. >> sure. >> you're sitting there watching and filming it is incredibly boring for my crew. we do get these frightening moments, but there are long moments in between of just waiting for something to happen. it's a relief when something does happen. >> tell me something that has genuinely scared you. >> it's often not the fish. the fish, you can often see what you're dealing with. we go into hazardous environments as well. one highlight unscripted from the new season we're in south america. and i was talking to the camera. and there was a flash and a bang. we were right underneath a lightning bolt. and we were running for the boat. the camera was going. and a sound engineer was hit by lightning. so we were straight into an emergency situation, seeing how he is. >> how is he right now? >> he's fine, actually. we're looking to see if he's developed any supernatural powers, but no signs of that so far. >> i didn't know if we'd see that. jeremy wade, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, alex. >> all of you be sure to catch the premiere sunday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern on animal planet. guarantee you won't be bored. a stronger america through education. next up, a look at the challenges and successes in the african-american community right here on "msnbc saturday." let's do this. look who's early! 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"a stronger america: the black agenda." when it comes to education, the numbers are shocking. the graduation rate for historically black colleges and universities is under 40%. but there are organizations working to change all that, earn couraging educational success for all students. joining me, dorrell bradford. good morning. so glad you're here because there's nothing more important than education for the kids. >> yeah. you know, the crisis of education in america, i mean, it is really one that affects every kid. but to the extent that you're poor or you're minority and sort of more specifically to the extent that you're black, you are affected more acutely by that. and i think over the last five or six years in particular there's so much information. there's so much mania in the public conscious that we really have like a magic moment that finally starts doing some things and just stop talking about doing things. >> trying to do something, excellent education for everyone, like what? >> our primary kind of power is school choice in all of its forms. we really think there are two kinds of schools that people go to. schools you would send a person you love to andle skoo schools don't. putting access on the table regardless of zip code, skin color or money you make. >> given the theme of our work, the african-american community. >> the first thing we've done, we have an information campaign about what's going on for black people and black children in schools that are majority, minority. i think there's a sense sort of, you know, in the rarefied error that everyone knows how bad it is. you know, in communities of color, people don't understand or aren't aware of the fact that, you know, partially proficient means failing, that kind of thing. that there's a sense that, yeah, it's kind of bad, but maybe it's not as bad as it really is. so that's the most important thing. the second thing we work on a lot is the sort of ownership in communities of color of their schools. most people, you know, people have dysfunctional relationships with schools for decades. and they assign the best values of the school. you know, the football team's great. the pom-pom squad's great, whatever. and that is a proxy for school success. but kids aren't spelling s.a.t. so we get in there on that, too. the last part is like on the policy thing. that's legislators and media and organizing because changing schools is really a political effort in the end. >> this program that we're doing tomorrow at noon, "the black agenda," tell me how that can help. how does that help the situation, get word out. >> so what's interesting is that as much as there's a black agenda, which is to say the advancement of people of color in america, there isn't one. there are a million of them. and they're set by what you live, your income, your parents and those kinds of things. any social change happens in two big buckets. the first one is just identifying and talking about the problem. and the black community broadly is pretty insular. i think that's held us back particularly in the educational space. the second part of that i would say again on the policy piece, and you see this all across the world right now, is people saying what i have right now is absolutely unacceptable. it's unfair. it's immoral. and it needs to be changed. not in five years, today. we want immediacy that gets kids into better places and we're not waiting for another five-year plan to give their child an opportunity to participate in america at an equal level. >> you can't wait one second. >> not one second, absolutely not. >> which is why we love programs like yours. the executive director of excellent education. it's a great name. thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much. don't miss "a stronger america: the black agenda" hosted by my colleague, ed schultz, tomorrow at noon eastern, 9:00 pacific here. donald trump, a one-man verbal rampage apparently if he's on one of those. he's lashing out at president obama. but is he undermining any chance that he has at the oval office? 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