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saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america's bills. is everyone on board? >> reporter: we'll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he's feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they're focused on a ...

Notifying people immediately. >> the queen's cousin as we saw in that report louis mount baton was assassinated in 1979 after a bomb was planted in his fishing boat. how might that factor into security preparations? >> well, certainly the irish republican army at that point were very forward leaning. they were really violent at that point. but you have to look at lord mount baton's situation. he was 12 miles from a known enclave of irish republican army soldiers in ireland, and he had left his boat unattended the night before and they were easily able to get on board and set the explosives. so...

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