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To be completed. again, this is the new cnn poll out just hours ago. let's get the bottom line with special prosecutor who knows a little bit of something about these investigations. richard ben-veniste, thank you for being with us. cnn legal analyst. 66% want this wrapped up by november. a lot of that may be democrats hopping on board because they think it might help democrats in the midterm elections. still that's a lot of people. with your experience you might argue that these investigations wrap up when they're done. >> that's right. this is proceeding rapidedly in terms of prior precedent...

Let's imagine he agreed to something like the '86 tax act and includes 0 billion more. i would go along with that all day long and twice on sunday. but nate not going to happen. that's pie in the sky stuff. i don't think how you can get 70 billion more in spending and have it offset by enough other things to make it worthwhile, but i have to see it carefully. >> would you rather gore to a deal that you don't get fully hip, not really too keen on it, or no deal at all? >> i'd rather have -- i would much rather see a deal done. all of this kabuki dancing and stuff is beyond the pale. your interv...

Offering obama a haf loaf, as it were, i'll give you the debt ceiling for another six weeks and that's all, but i'm not going to give you the shutdown being over just yet until you agree to negotiate. and obama is bringing him into the white house, talking. but it's kind of a non-negotiation negotiation from obama's point of view because he doesn't want to admit he's doing any actual negotiating. there's a lot of kabuki dancing going on here, and it's difficult to say who is giving up more at this particular moment in time, but they clearly are each moving somewhere. >> this is what it's comin...