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Show some positive signs of getting a deal, the president has said hes willing to go along with a short-term funding measure, two, three days, just so they can cross the ts and dot the is. beyond that, though, he said hes not interested in a short-term measure that would go a week because theyve already had two of those. >> i think thats exactly right. he has made it very clear he wants the pressure to be up, turn up the heatment he said two or three days if its just papering over a deal thats b...

Theres some frustration that they say theyre getting painted as the tea party but its kiend of the broad sentiment for the speaker to say, dont give any more on the spending bills, even if theyre only talking about a couple billion dollars. >> interesting thing youre focusing on, the spending. what are the senior republicans saying about their willingness or necessity of including the so-called riders on abortion and global warming on this agreement? are they saying theyll give on that as long a...

Meeting lasted about an hour 20 minutes, you heard the typical lines that the talks were productive, that we are getting close. but nonetheless there is this disappointment among democrats in general and the white house in particular that they have not been able to get a deal and take this across the finish line. and you keep hearing that theyre very close, but whats complicating this is that how close is close? if they had been this close, then a deal would have been done by now. but theyve not...

>> no. >> just radio silence, nothing at all. >> nope. >> let me ask you, have you spoken to kevin? do you speak to him often, and does he know there may be this other crisis that -- hard enough for you to live back at home when hes over in iraq. hes been gone for, what, seven months? >> yep. >> and has he -- does he know that you may also be running out of cash? >> yeah. its -- and they dont need more stress. they dont need to be worrying about us back here. they need to focus on finishing what...

An area youre supposed to monitor if youre not monitoring. but again, eliot, its almost like a war shack test, people who really think government is fundamentally sort of an impediment and a pain in the neck, their view is, so what? let it shut down. this will be good for us. people who fundamentally think government is a force for good say, no, no, this is a big mistake to do that. it does break down by where you are and what you do, although i will say this. the longer it goes on, things like ...

Are seven democrat incumbents pulling under 50% three months before the election. thats almost unheard of. these are not first termers, people like harry reid, barbara boxer. it is, you know, the democrats are facing a real headwind. the news for them is they know theyre facing a headwind, so theyve been raising tons and tons of money to try and fortify themselves. >> right. >> its going to be a real battle over the next three months, absolutely. >> lets get a couple of people in here, kiersten,...

This, doug? >> hes going to survive politically, i think, because there will probably be a deal within the next week. hell probably be sanctioned, could be censured, but given the pathology ipolling in his distrs likely hell be renominated and reelected. >> i mean, he owns that district. hes owned that district forever, so like that doesnt really mean anything. >> the liberals are ganging up on him this time. hes the one who is going to be the poster child who pretends they go after their fel fe...

Stickers. >> hallie, i know were live right now. and karen handel walking away from the voting place. >> that was gabe gutierrez earning his keep today out there with karen handel after she just voted in the special election we have been talking about. perils of live tv, the signal wasnt great. handel talking about her chances and how she feels coming up tonight and to talk about how she feels. we just listened to dick durbin talk about how if handel is defeated. it would be historic. close does...

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