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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...

Theres no bigger bully pit the oval office. and him showing strength and leadership. that is again, a thing, if you look at the issues that the president, that voters bring up about the president. you know, im not breaking news here, they bring up his age, weve all talked about it on the air. i think theres very few things that counter that idea, that the president is too old, then to show him in a position of strong leadership. and using that and showing that he is a strong leader, able to brin...

Pockets for you. the white working class is picking his pockets for a racist white president. the irony is they aint getting no benefit from what hes doing. they have what they call the psychological wave of whiteness, but other than that, at least youre not a black person, theres no physical payoff or variable socioeconomic benefit. so the bully pit of donald trump devastated this country again. >> lets look how a series of republicans responded to these tweets. heres mick mulvaney, the preside...

Separating these in two different things. i think its important to acknowledge the work thats happened with the criminal justice reform and as the president would argue the state of the acadeeconomy is good for americans. and we talk about the numbers, the rise in hate crimes is not good for african-americans. nothing good about the black worshippers killed first in charleston and later on the attempt in kentucky and jewish worshippers killed in pittsburgh. what we see is anti-immigrant, anti-re...

Next. and the fact the president is using his bully pit to basically create questions on our electoral system is something we have to further discuss, because at the end of day every single vote should count. thats what creates a strong electoral system, and making sure the integrity of the voter fields is still sacrosanct. >> ari, thank you for joining us live from florida. are you there for the duration or when the case moves up to the united states supreme court, i guess youll go up to washin...

Next. and the fact the president is using his bully pit to basically create questions on our electoral system is something we have to further discuss, because at the end of day every single vote should count. thats what creates a strong electoral system, and making sure the integrity of the voter fields is still sacrosanct. >> ari, thank you for joining us live from florida. are you there for the duration or when the case moves up to the united states supreme court, i guess youll go up to washin...

Change because they dislike somebody. >> no it changes because they are reporting facts and if this president did not stand on the podium, clearly from his bully pit and insult people they would not have it to report. >> your argument is ridiculous. charles: well have to leave it there but the media has not reported all facts, theres been a lot of bad and miss reporting. >> i think coming from this white house. charles: i think its just because they dont like president trump. absolutely not. cha...

Any reason to believe he will change his approach. >> no, because it has worked for him. this is beyond that. and i think people close to him, need to tell him that his rhetoric, the violent rhetoric, punch him in the face, drag him out, is beyond the pale for the president of the united states. scott and i receive more death threats that you can image. two months ago, i had to send something to security because people wanted to me and my family harm. what happened yesterday in annapolis could h...

Defense? >> its not surprising that he would defend his son. its another example of the president appearing to be more concerned about his family brand than he is about the office of the presidency and how its being impacted by all of this. the senator san torum brought this up but republicans are trying to do things that they havent been able to do in a generation, tax reform, health care reform and although the president has not lost republican voters through all of this and thats something we...