welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this businbusy news day with us. the president called the latest debt ceil ing meeting productiv and a sign of good progress. but kevin mccarthy s morning after update is rather bleak. nowhere near a deal. this as the treasury begins checking how long agencies can pay their bills. plus legal quick sand for donald trump. his words at a cnn town hall push e. jean carroll to seek more damages and his instructions about how to handle classified documents end up in the hands of the special counsel. and swing voters dread the idea of a biden/trump rematch, but their focus group on what happened if there is one is quite revealing. the biden team arriving last yhour. they are now with the team behind closed doors. both sides say there s mgood faith, yet both sides also say there is little progress. this morning the speaker telling fellow house republicans the two sides are nowhere near agr agreement,
bite. listen to the first. john is exactly right when he says the only thing that debt ceiling is good for is to destroy your credit rating. that was talking to the business roundtable where he says this debt ceiling is becoming a problem. it is a problem. now, listen to president obama when he wasn t president obama and he was trying to become president obama on the debt ceil ing. the problem is, the way bush has done it over the last eight years, to take out a credit card from the bang of china in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents, number 43, he added $4 trillion by his lonesome, and now we have over $9 trillion of debt. and we will have to pay it back $30,000 for every man, woman and
step forward and show at least a little bit of leadership. he has been awol since he and bane ere failed on the debt ceil ing. he better engage quickly or else we re going to way of europe. joe, thank you. coming up, senate majority whip dirk durbin will be here. we ll ask him about this. also we re going to have betty white onset. we ll watch what happens live with bravo s andy cohen. after the break our first look at politico s top stories of the morning. plus, hugh grant now at the center of the british tabloid phone hacking scandal testifying with scathing details about his own personal battles with the press. you ll hear what he had to say. first, let s go to bill karins with a check on the forecast. a very difficult travel out there the next two days. two big storms on the map greeting everyone as they try to get to their thanksgiving destination. rain moving in pittsburgh, new york, philadelphia, d.c. heaviest rains will be later on tonight. tomorrow this area is just going