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joining me now, top economist in many of the negotiations. laura tyson, ran the council of economic advisers understand e president clinton and teaches at berkeley and serves the president s council of competitiveness and joins us from sunny california. welcome. thank you, matt. before we get to the substance of this, laura, talk about the process. you ve been in these rooms and big meeting when the summit s take place as wey proech these deadlines. is there a free discussion, or is their just fear in the room people are going to leak and it s more of a staged kabuki conversation? give folk as sense of that. i think at this point in the discussion, there must be a real negotiation going on. people are going into that room with a pretty good idea of the places they might be able to move in a package, and with a pretty good idea of things they absolutely could not accept. and those have to be communicated to one another,

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