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Response? >> the point of those republican serves as a reminder that congress has been hijacked by the far-right. and the far-right insist on burning everything down, including the leadership of their own party and the full faith and credit of the united states. it was made crystal clear that there is nothing physically responsible for developing on the nations debt. its downgrading the nations credit rating. and easing the cost of, that it will only deep in the physical crisis. so it is complet...

Government, especially when a lot of the money, when you hear democrats talk about this all the time, its over the military. and where speaker mccarthy is talking about cutting wokeism, and kind of whatever that means, other aspects of it are interesting. there are places where even democrats can agree with them. there should be spending cuts, will they ever come to any kind of agreement on? unlikely. we all know that seems to be where money should be spent in the federal government. >> im sorry...

Republicans in the house who might say we cant do this. if we do this and we cause stagflation or we cause a deeper recession or we cause massive inflation, those fingers will point back to us in the next election. its about political preservation. this doesnt seem to make sense. is it possible or likely that some moderate republicans will just vote with democrats to increase the debt ceiling and say, look, sorry, we cant go along with this? >> that is our hope. i think that what you will see as...

Are religious, we are secular, we are gay, we are straight, we are young, we are older, we are women, we are men, we are citizens, we are dreamers, out of many, we are one. thats what makes america a great country. [applause] no matter what kind of haters are trying to divide us, we are not going to let anyone take that away from us. not now, not ever. >> monday, or powerful rhetoric from hakim. he got years from his caucus. he got all 212 votes every round. this is a man who, and you are a prog...

Country. and no matter whats -- young [applause] kind of haters are trying to divide us, were not gonna let anyone take that away from us, not now, not ever. >> i dont think you couldve tested a more contrasting speech to go before kevin mccarthy if you tried in hollywood or anywhere. put aside policy for a moment, just the oratory skills of leader jeffries were quite remarkable in that display. what does it say about his leadership, his skills, and what role he will play in the next crucial few...

The republican agenda they want to undo. so we have to look past their rhetoric around this is about process and amendments. this is about continuing to rig the system. what has rocketed our deficit is the tax policy they put in place last time they had the majority. and they cannot wait to do it again. who did that policy benefit? the largest of corporations and the very wealthiest of americans. this president and democrats have been committed to middle class tax cuts to fairness in our system,...

212 democrats voting for hakeem jeffries. we are working together we have a big tent in our party, some great diversity across the different elements of a party, but are working together with hakeem and our new leadership is what will give us strength to win in 2024 and to stand up to the worst of the extremism we can expect from the republicans. >> before i let you, go you said in the house and ways means committee which of course before democrats lost control, you released years of trumps tax ...

From his birth to the day he leaves this earth, ever school me on racism and what it looks like in this country. not ever, ever, ever. i dont care what he goes through in his life, he will never be able to school me or teach me utwhat racism is, and the fact that he had to come and speak to that, not even understanding what the reason why i spoke to that, because he doesnt understand, he doesnt understand white supremacy, he doesnt understand living in this patriarchal system where systemic raci...

Frustration. a number of people saying theyre poed. there was a real whip effort on boebert and gaetz. they could not get them to come off present. there was no moving the other four. and now there is a question whether they have the votes to adjourn. to chads point, you know, we should point out that there is some credit to be given for democrats holding the line almost every single ballot. there was only one ballot where they got 211 and thats because representative trone from maryland had sur...

212 votes for jeffries. and then the six holdouts. now, we know that wesley hunt came back and voted for mccarthy and we are assuming that block and gosar vote for mccarthy. he would be at 216. gosar has already voted. buck is coming back to vote for him. hunt voted for him. that would be a two-step hundred 16. we assume all 212 democrats continue to vote for jeffries. now we have this time from lauren boebert, something we havent had before, a present vote. what that president vote does from la...