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Show some positive signs of getting a deal, the president has said he's 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 he's not interested in a short-term measure that would go a week because they've already had two of those. >> i think that's 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 it's just papering over a deal that's been cut. that's one thing. if it's a matter of open issues, no way. that's what we're hearing ...

There's some frustration that they say they're getting painted as the tea party but it's kiend of the broad sentiment for the speaker to say, don't give any more on the spending bills, even if they're only talking about a couple billion dollars. >> interesting thing you're 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 they'll give on that as long as they don't give on the money? >> reporter: very good question. it depends on who you talk t...

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 they're very close, but what's complicating this is that how close is close? if they had been this close, then a deal would have been done by now. but they've not been able to do that. that's why the president has can asked for the leaders to come back to the...

>> 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 he's over in iraq. he's been gone for, what, seven months? >> yep. >> and has he -- does he know that you may also be running out of cash? >> yeah. it's -- and they don't need more stress. they don't need to be worrying about us back here. they need to focus on finishing what they need to do and keeping themselves safe. so the financial stress doesn't need to happen. >...

An area you're supposed to monitor if you're not monitoring. but again, eliot, it's 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 the loans for homes, it owns a quarter of the loans in this country, stop processing those loans,...