Debt Ceiling Collapse News Today

white house has really been minimal at best since the discovery of these classified documents. you have president biden yesterday ignoring and shouting questions from reporters. twice at the white house and then for three days in a row this week, press secretary kareen jean pierre referred most of our questions about this topic to the justice department, the special counsels office. she read statements from the white house counsels office and reaction to the mishandling of these classi...

Avoidable debt ceiling collapse from transpiring. >> all right, lucy, taking this a step further, the house oversight committee chairman, james comer of kentucky, has begun to seek out bidens family financial records. what do you think republicans are hoping for their? >> we will, i think theyre hoping to make the case that the biden family has been personally enriched by joe biden positions of power over the last several decades. look, i mean, this is really what were seeing. kevin mccarthy is ...

Care. but you know who hasnt stopped focusing on obama care is the american people. the reason the house of representatives has stood strong on obama care is that millions of americans rose up and said look, this thing isnt working. this thing is killing jobs. it is taking away peoples health care. it is not working. and thats what we need to stay focused on. >> well, you were kind of a lone voice on that now. its almost kind of delusional sounding your entire party is now moving on. your entire...

Woring, its killing jobs, taking away peoples health care, it is not working. and thats what we need to stay focused on. >> well, you were kind of a lone voice on that notice, almost delusional sounding, your entire party is now moving on. your entire party is saying the debt ceiling catastrophe that we are on the verge of doing needs to be resolved. youre on record saying you dont even want to deal with the debt ceiling collapse without making obama care a part of that. paul ryan said, lets dea...

Hes fighting from a defensive posture because hes trying to pushback on this notion that he and he alone is responsible for the fact that the government is shutdown. he and a lot of his colleagues are trying to spin this to put the shoe on senator reid and president obama. where this really gets interesting, though, is less the government shutdown and mortgage debt ceiling. >> i agree. >> its one thing for ted cruz. >> let me -- >> nobody wants to have a debt ceiling collapse on their hands. >> ...

Posture because hes trying to push back on this notion that he and he alone is responsible for the fact that the government is shut down. so he and a lot of this colleagues are trying to spin this so put the shoe on senator reid and president obama. where this really gets interesting, though, is more the debt ceiling. its one thing for ted cruz to have the shutdown on their hands. nobody wants a debt ceiling collapse on their hands. >> can you report now or analyze the fact he seems to be respon...

Legislation will include a vote to defund obama care. that would pass the house, yes, but it will never get through the senate as is. >> there should be no conversation about shutting the government down. thats not the goal here. our goal here is to cut spending and to protect the american people from obama care. its as simple as that. no interest in our part in shutting the government down. >> does this feel like a little advantagea view, circa 2011, debt ceiling collapse. president obama says ...

Next year will pocket another $140,000. so i mean to average americans out there figuring this out, how can the president and democrats translate this to the american people as a winning message? how much should they pound if? >> i dont think theyve had a problem with it. the p the polls massively support them on that. the republicans have figured out at the end of the day if they say were going to let bad things happen if you raise taxes, well let the government shout down and debt ceiling coll...

How to get through all of this political rhetoric and try and achieve something before the debt ceiling collapse, august 2nd. if that occurs this fragile economy in the united states will get that much worse. >> luke russert on capitol hill for us. luke, thank. >> be well. the u.s. navy is suspending guide allowing same-sex couples to wednesday on the bases following outrage from. republicans. opponents say it would violate a law that bans rgay marriages. nbc has more for us from the pentagon....

Future on the democrats. hes fighting from a defensive posture because hes trying to push back on this notion that he and he alone is responsible for the fact that the government is shut down. so he and a lot of his colleagues are trying to spin this so put the shoe on senator reid and president obama. where this really gets interesting, though, is more the debt ceiling. its one thing for ted cruz to have the shutdown on their hands. nobody wants a debt ceiling collapse on their hands. >> do you...