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deal would save the u.s. credit rating. i m gloria borger in for candy crowley. and this is state of the union. we re just an hour away from a vote in the senate on a democratic plan to raise the debt limit, but the real action is between the president and the republican senate leader mitch mcconnell. i spoke with him earlier, and he was optimistic about getting a deal. let me get right to it. can you announce this morning that a plan has been reached, there s a deal? we re very close. we had a very good day yesterday, both the president and the vice president called me, and the president talked to the speaker, as well. and they understand that with a republican majority in the house and a very row bous republican minority in the senate we have to come together. i think we ve made dramatic progress in that direction since april, for example, when the administration, gloria, was asking us to raise the debt creeling with no spending reductions at all, nothing, just ....

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