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I'm anderson cooper with this cnn live special coverage. the deal on hand for the debt ceiling and partial government shutdown are what many expected, a short-term band-aid known as kicking the can, setting up a short-term fix and moving the issue to later. it's so prolific and convolulted that we issued a timeline that still doesn't do justice to it. to get through 2011, congress and the president had to kick the can eight times with short-term funding bills in place of a real budget. to get through fiscal year 2012, six short-term funding bills and 2013, congress managed to get by with just ...

Is a family with three franchises. the three franchises together provide them enough income to support their family, but if you separate them out, they can't. they can't keep the franchises together because with them together, they have over 50 employees. the hit they'll take it more than their profit margin. they're actually looking at divorcing, still living together, so legally, one person can have one of those, the other person can have two, only bouse of the affordable care act. that's the most extreme example, but that's the real-life stuff that's happening as people try to figure it out...

When ryan and patty murray get together and do this deal? is this like a step on the ladder? >> well, i would hope so, but we'll see. you know, every time i've gotten into a discussion with the president, vice president, the democrats here in washington, and talking about entitlement changes, trying to make the programs sustainable, all they want to do is raise taxes. well, we can't do that unless you're willing to raise taxes. if they're going to hold on to their position that we're always going to raise taxes, we're fought going to come to an agreement, but hope springs eternal. >> why didn'...

His fellow republicans. so that's the state of play right now. would not be surprised if we heard from a number of republicans coming out of this meeting which is just getting under way right now, saying we don't like this, we're going to vote against it. i just got an e-mail before coming on with you from one of the tea party groups, freedom works, sent to all the republican offices, one of them just sent it to me, saying we're going to count this, score this, against your record as a conservative if you don't vote no. there's a lot of pressure from conservative groups to vote against this. >...

Over to the microphones because we would like to hear and see you. and that's what happened. i think a lot of things happened fast. i did mention to him that senator mcconnell was speaking on the floor and would he wait. there was a lot of groaning from reporters who wanted to hear him right away. i think it was just a fast-moving story with a lot of people trying to figure out what was going on. >> for people who don't realize, that's viewed as bad form, something you don't do on capitol hill. dana, appreciate it. we'll talk to you, probably well into the night. we spoke to republican james l...