deborah feyerick takes you inside one of the biggest manhunts in fbi history. the church bells of saint monica, near the harbor in south boston, have sounded for generations of irish immigrants. it s a tight-knit community that has always protected its own. a place james whitey bulger, one of boston s most notorious gangsters, called home. bulger learned to fight and survive on the mean streets of south boston, known as southie to locals like john shay who decades later would work for bulger. the guy was legendary. he made tough guys shake. he made them shake. reporter: bulger s life of crime started early. arrested in his teens, he was robbing banks by age 20. his shock of blond hair earning him the name whitey, a name he is staid to disguise. with his rugged good looks and reckless flamboyance, bulger imagined himself boston s version of hollywood s gangster, jimmy cagney. but instead of red carpets, he was headed to alcatraz. a string of bank robberies earning
press room podium and listen to a tiny bit of what he had to say. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal and, frankly, if you look at the commentary out there, there are a lot of republicans that are puzzled as to why it couldn t get done. in the interest of being serious about deficit reduction, i was willing to take a lot of heat from my party up until sometime early today when i couldn t get a phone call returned. my expectation was that speaker boehner was going to be willing to go to his caucus and ask them to do the tough thing but the right thing. i told speaker boehner, i ve told democratic leader nancy pelosi, i ve told harry reid and i ve told mitch mcconnell i want them here at 11:00 tomorrow. these are body blows in d.c. terms and speaker boehner struck back himself about 45 minutes ago. listen to what he said. think refuse to get serious and making the tough choices. it s time to get serious. and i m confident th
negotiations to continue. key elements of the republican establishment are trying to nudge the hard line conservatives to a compromise. defaulting on our debt is not an option. it has real, immediate, and potentially catastrophic consequences. the ratings agency standard and poor s sent a team to capitol hill saying not raising the debt ceiling would stain america s credit rating and drive up interest costs for everyone. many house conservatives, though, aren t ready to give up and some of them won t budge. they say if there s any new taxes in this deal at the end, they would rather have the first default in american history. in our new cnn/orc poll gives us a fresh sense of what you think. 34% of americans say any deal to raise the debt ceiling should include only spending cuts. but nearly two thirds, 64%, say the deal should include a mix, spending cuts and tax increases. that s what president obama wants and here s a little more proof he at the moment has the upper han
becoming an abnormal crisis. what happened today? reporter: well, there was a lot of process, sanjay. and a lot of discussion and still no break through is the bottom line. we are less than two days away from the president s self-imposed july 22nd deadline for a deal. and still there is no deal. and now some on capitol hill, some of even the president s allies are saying this is now in their view time to cut bait and stop going for the big deficit reductions package they ve been talk about and find the easiest path forward to get the debt ceiling raised and worry about deficit reductions at another time. it seem like there was some enthusiasm and progress yesterday. but if the two sides are even further dug in, even further apart so to speak, why is the president still pushing for something big? reporter: well, there s the overt politics of it. he seems to be nominally winning. the republicans and public polls are doing less well and are getting more blame than the pres
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