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Ones who are going to get hurt. joining us now the democratic congressman lloyd doggett of texas, member of the house ways and means committee. congressman doggett, thanks for being with us. you know of this. you have seen this battle before. it is the same amount of stupid every time, but its actually, in my opinion, more dangerous now than it was the last time it happened, because of the economic circumstance that we are in because there is a danger that theyre actually maybe recession this ye...

I would like something on this democratic -- this republican to do list to be something that feels like a policy priority. but this now seems to be a thing that is going around, a vote to an impeached altria. >> yeah. its good to be with you, ali velshi. thanks for having me on. i thought that the exchange that you played between the reporters posing a question to the speaker mccarthy was so instructive because this notion that the house republican conference would focus its time now that it is ...

Santos and he often we just deny or he would blame someone else and i repeatedly heard theyre coming to terms with feeling that they were defrauded or scammed by someone they trusted. in some ways its funny, but these people actually, it wasnt funny at the time. >> are they surprised? and they shocked that he made it through an election and got elected and continues? or is it one of these things where yeah, thats george, he just sort of slides his way through life? >> i think the answer is both....

But what your republican colleagues are doing in the house is not a good faith argument. it seems to be somewhere between a misunderstanding of what breaching the debt ceiling does and means economically, or a misunderstanding of what debt actually is, the idea that you buy things, you have to pay for them. you cant choose after that not to pay for them. i dont know what it is, but its not actually the debate should be happening about, did we spend too much and should be spent last. >> absolutel...

Become speaker of the house did not just go at the federal level. they also court of state level and pennsylvania in 2022. democrats won control of the pennsylvania state house in the midterm elections for the first time in 12 years. it was an important repudiation of the election denier candidates running at the state and federal level in pennsylvania who championed lies about the 2020 election or actually worked to overturn the election results. for pennsylvania democrats, the margin was even ...

Chinese banks, over american citizens, and quote. heres the thing. none of this is new. republicans tried this trick with president obama when they first took the debt ceiling hostage. the treasury warned then and treasury secretary janet yellen says today, congress cannot allow this to happen. you see, the victim of breaching the debt ceiling isnt congressional democrats. its not joe biden. its you. and me, and everyone in america, and possibly the global economy. and to threaten it today is, i...

Not only should we be having but one that president biden is absolutely willing to have. he has presided over 1. 7 trillion in deficit reduction he considered fiscal redacted and be a top priority but that is about plans going forward. how we raise the revenues and the structure of the spending. what we plan to do in the future. as you have said many times tonight, but in my view it cant be repeated enough, when youre talking about the debt ceiling, raising the debt ceiling, youre talking about ...

85 person majority in the house but it is a hard job under any circumstance. but to me, whether or not you think those particular giveaways are important or not, the most important thing about this is republicans, with the rebel holdouts planted the flag for fiscal responsibility. and made the argument that we are going to be fiscally responsible. and i hope they stick to that flag and carried on through. talking about things like 87000 irs agent is a very unifying thing. voters of every stripe ...

Yeses. i dont know whether he is going to be speaker or not. im not suggesting one way or the other. but he has his work cut out for him. the people around him. the people around kevin mccarthy, say he is going to the floor on january 3rd to stand for the speaker vote. something he did not do in 2015, when his speaker bid was derailed. but there has to be a massive sea change in the next couple of weeks, and im not saying its not possible but there has to be a massive sea change for mccarthy to ...

Details of our deliberations, i will just say there are multiple reasons that this problem has taken us a long time to figure out. obviously, the constitution says that the congress cannot declare people guilty of crimes. thats the bill or closs. its up to the courts to adjudicate guilt and innocence at the same time. we are an investigative body of the congress. we may have come upon evidence that may not otherwise be available. thats why we need to complete our deliberations about -- everybody...