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Now and based upon my experience as a federal prosecutor is the fact that they may be in a negotiation phase right now. they want this suspect alive because he has intelligence. they don't want him to blow himself up. obviously, we don't want law enforcement to get collateral damage as well. so my belief is they could be in a negotiation phase with him right now. this is an extremely dangerous, volatile situation when you talk about an individual wearing a suicide vest as we know his older brother was wearing as well. i think the fact that there is an ambulance at the scene and an overwhelming...

Something that the lawyers always negotiate up front. i mean, that is something that a defendant is very concerned about. so that would certainly be part of the plea deal that jail time would or would not be included. here you have the additional factor of john edwards being a lawyer, and that is also part of a plea deal when you have a lawyer as a suspect. frankly, as often happens. when i was a prosecutor, i prosecuted a lot of lawyers who commit a lot of crimes and the issue of whether they can keep they law license is something that is dealt with in the plea bargain stage, and this is some...

Hill. goldman got it kicked out of them. >> reporter: they did, monica. hopefully senator levin is a south park fan with the rant that he did yesterday. what we see now up here on capitol hill, monica, about two hours senator reid is going to call this reform to the floor and try to get another vote. they are not expected to get gop crossovers. this will fail. what are the main issues? they are closer on the too big to fail, $250 million resolution deal. consumer protection. they feel giving the government too much power to intervene in certain types of credit markets. they do not want the gov...