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all? was this all just bluff? >> when you say was it a bluff? just to be clear, you are saying your best defense would be that he was lying about the documents. >> possibly -- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and president biden signing the debt ceiling deal into law, and inca drama that had the country on the brink of default. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> passing this budget agreement was critical. mistakes could not have been higher. if we failed to reach an agreement on the budget, there wouldve been extreme voice...

here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour, president biden today will sign the debt ceiling bill into law. averting a disastrous default two days before that deadline. the president is using his first oval office address to praise the bipartisan agreement, and stressed its importance. >> it was critical to reach the agreement. and its very good news for american people. no one got everything they wanted. the american people got what they needed. we a...

He is a heck no on trump care. Im a heck no on this. I think theyve got problems with the vote. Ive personally spoken to 29 of my conservative colleagues who are no on this as of today and were not even counting the moderate republicans who are a no. I think theyve got a lot of arm twisting to do between now and thursday if theyre going to pass this bill in the house. Does he sound scared to you . Because congressman massey was in the room today when donald trump came to the House Of Representat...

And out of californias top 20 largest wildfires in history, 13 of them happened in the last ten years. >> when you combine all of those, it makes it very difficult to do business, in particular underwrite insurance policy. >> now with two of the states top five largest property insurers scaling back coverage, brokers on the other side of the table say its changing the way they do business. asking buyers now to call insurance companies upfront. >> typically, most buyers dont really reach out for ...

We saw the press conference nancy at the pel gave last week. achievements the democratics could talk. how closely are they talking as you listen to candidates on the trail? >> we have had this conversation before while we talk about the divide what happens in washington and on the campaign trail. as much as im out here, the conversation is not closely adhering to mueller and barr and investigations. it more closely adheres to what are the issues that affect real americans in their day-to-day liv...

What are you hearing from your constituents? what do they want to see happen? >> well, people really just want to figure out how are we going to control costs. i hear again and again and again people dont want to roll back coverage. almost everybody knows somebody whos got a disability or chronic illness. a lot of these people, theyre not just in cities, theyre rural areas, in the suburbs, and i think what were getting to and i think senator alexander and senator murray are working on a bipartis...

Aswag lisa murkowskis concern. >> former president, obama, weighed in on the health care bill. >> reporter: this is the corner stone achievement of president obamas eight years. theres no shortage of frustration, listen. >> when i see people trying to undo that progress for the 50th or 60th time with bills that would roll back coverage, raise costs, the cancer survivor, expecting mom or child with autism or asthma, for whom coverage once again would be almost unatinable, it is aggravating. >> it...

Senator murrays committee was clearly making progress, five governors who testified a couple of weeks ago, three republicans and two democrats and the questions from both republicans and democrats to the governors were piercing. they were focused but not critical. everyone there trying to understand stability to the private market, to really focusing on what kind of reinsurance fund would really work so we dont have a small number of -- tilting cost of insurance for everyone way up. those soluti...

A high probability its going to roll back coverage and shift costs to the states. >> what are you most concerned though about this specific bill? why are you a definite know on this? >> certainly from the point of view of colorado, its $800 million a year, maybe a billion a year of additional cost for the status quo, but on a larger scale, its almost like groundhog day, going back to all of the republicans to focus on trying to get one big without any bipartisan support done so they can check, w...

Congress. if it comes to a government shut doup, do democrats stand to benefit politically? >> oh, i dont know. i dont even -- you know, i worry about that kind of -- that hyperbole. i mean, i think its very unlikely its going to happen. probably they would benefit, but i think the focus is we should be trying to do, whether were democrats or republicans, trying to do what we can to keep moving the ball down the road and find that -- those places where we can find agreement. i mean, while were s...