seems to me that all of us in this body should be pressing the leaders on both sides of the aisle to at least present a scoreable package that s scoreable and real in the area of $4 trillion, or depending on what you decided to do with that package, but if you voted for a package that was less than that, you d be casting a vote to raise the debt ceiling, but at the same time probably cast our country into a situation where we re downgraded. martha: yeah. and that would be called a band-aid that would just move us down the road in the eyes of some. doug mcelway has the latest developments from capitol hill on all of this. hi, doug. reporter: hey, martha, how you doing? here s the latest on the boehner plan. a meeting broke up about an hour ago, and many of these formerly-recalcitrant republicans on the house side have come out of this meeting feeling much more optimistic about its contents, much more optimistic about its chances for passage. let s listen to a couple of sou
listen. seems to me that all of us in this body should be pressing the leaders on both sides of the aisle to at least present a scoreable package that s scoreable and real in the area of $4 trillion, or depending on what you decided to do with that package, but if you voted for a package that was less than that, you d be casting a vote to raise the debt ceiling, but at the same time probably cast our country into a situation where we re downgraded. martha: yeah. and that would be called a band-aid that would just move us down the road in the eyes of some. doug mcelway has the latest developments from capitol hill on all of this. hi, doug. reporter: hey, martha, how you doing? here s the latest on the boehner plan. a meeting broke up about an hour ago, and many of these formerly-recalcitrant republicans on the house side have come out of this meeting feeling much more optimistic about its contents, much more optimistic about its chances for passage. let s listen to a coupl
also in mexico we are learning about this alleged 14-year-old cartel hitman. his nick name is el ponchise. 14 years old. and he happens to be an american citizen. casey? reporter: a teenager hitman, that many something you don t hear in the news every day. now the u.s. state department is confirming that teen is a u.s. citizen because he was born in the united states. even though his mother is a suspected illegal immigrant. and she was just arrested on those charges down in the san diego area wednesday. we ll get right to the video and bring you up to speed. edgar jimenez was captured last week by the mexican army at an airport. an hour south of mexico city. officials say he was trying to
inordinate amount of time. the defense has said all along, he isn t lucid, your honor, to stand trial. we have to continue the battery of tests. and even when it was determined he was lucid to stand trial, testimony through the course of the trial, the marshals say, well, he was lucid at that point in time, but as soon as he was in the back room outside the presence of the jury, he sits down, he took a nap, he d put ear plugs in his ears, he was acting very sane outside of the courtroom and putting on an act inside the courtroom. megyn: mercedes, you ve tried a lot of cases, and juries don t tend to like insanity defenses. i think you re exactly right, megyn. they are very uncomfortable with it because in the final analysis what you re saying to the jury is, yes, it s a horrible crime that they ve committed, but they didn t really know it was wrong. and some of these, especially this case, it s such a shocking case, and there s no way that this jury s going to this is an
this boy, edgar jimenez claimed on videotape that he killed 7 people for the offshoot of the beltran levya cartel. he began at 11 years old beheading four of these people. he would go out for 300 bucks, look for the victims and when they continue find the intended targets they d go after random people. he s only facing three and a half years in prison if he s convicted because the judge down there has already agreed to try him as a juvenile, megyn. megyn: trace gallagher, thank you. new terrance about following the release of a major study we told you about yesterday. that study says that 74% of doctors plan to retire, go part time, or seek other employment in the wake of the new healthcare law. if that is true, they say this could mean less care for