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progress. democratic senate leader harry reid and republican senate leader mitch mcconnell on the senate floor moments ago. look. >> today the speaker republican leader held a press conference to announce they're in talks with the president and that a bargain to raise the debt ceiling is in the works and is close. in president, members of the senate, that's not true. i just spent two hours with the president, vice president, and leader pelosi, and it's fair for me to say that the engagement there is not in any meaningful way. the speaker, republican leader should know that merely say...

An opening bargaining position. there are different positions coming out of different people. the gadhafi regime itself has presented a position both through saif and the deputy foreign minister in athens. their starting position is essentially that gadhafi and saif will preside over a democratic transition. the details of the proposal that congressman wheldon has actually says no, maybe saif would be part of some kind of council, but it would be the rebels in charge leading to elections and there would be u.n. involvement. you have to see both of these as opening bids in a negotiation that ha...

Least moammar gadhafi's chief of staff, a very senior government official here, but it hasn't translated into that meeting he was expecting. and it puts him in a very, very awkward position. there's some sense that maybe the op-ed he wrote in "the new york times" before he arrived here could have something to do with it. but this is moammar gadhafi, perhaps the way that many people remember him, completely unpredictable. and mr. wheldon isn't the first person that this leader has kept waiting, anderson. >> ann marie, are congressman wheldon's proposals even plausible? how likely is something w...

>> ann marie, are congressman wheldon's proposals even plausible? how likely is something would come out of this? >> i think you have to see it as an opening bargaining position. there are different positions coming out of different people. the gadhafi regime itself has presented a position both through saif and the deputy foreign minister in athens. their starting position is essentially that gadhafi and saif will preside over a democratic transition. the details of the proposal that congressman wheldon has actually says no, maybe saif would be part of some kind of council, but it would be th...