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President biden as the vice president under barack obama was in the middle of the last time we had a debt ceiling crisis this severe, both in 2011 and then in 2013 when the republicans who control the house at that point, demanded budget cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling in 2011 , president obama did negotiate with republicans. they went right up to the brink. the deal virtually fell apart, and at the last minute they were able to cobble together reductions that allowed john boehner to...

Internal issues. but john in talking to a number of these senior republicans over the last several days, they do feel confident that they can ultimately get there even though they can only limit this factions to just four republicans nor to pass a bill long straight party lines. mccarthy im told, wants this on the floor in may. the hope is they can get this out of the house and that will strengthen their negotiating position with the white house, even though as you said no chance of passing the ...

Ceiling crisis looms. congress by the way, is back today after a two week recess in a tweet, mccarthy says he will focus on the urgent need for a responsible debt ceiling increase. this could set the stage for a fresh round of talks between house republicans and the white house, the gop what major spending cuts in exchange for a debt limit increase. democrats say thats a nonstarter. this was a huge point of contention for mccarthy . back in january, he was forced to promise no debt ceiling incre...

If there is not an agreement to raise the national debt ceiling , the white house has said that they will not engage in negotiations with house republicans over spending cuts that would be paired with a debt ceiling increase. they want the republicans in the house to simply raise the debt ceiling without any conditions attached . republicans in the house say that is not going to happen. they say there needs to be negotiation. and there need to be spending cuts tied with raising the $31.4 trillio...

To pay our debts. we have no business playing politics with peoples lives in our economy. >> lets go straight to the white house. the president up on the hill, the message to senate democrats is what? >> its stick together. thats something we heard from the president last night. some version of that phrase eight different times during his address to the house democratic caucus in baltimore. thats because the president is talking not only about what has been accomplished over the first two years ...

Meet with democrats. hes just entered capitol hill. you see him there with chuck schumer, the senate majority leader. hes over on capitol hill as husband party is facing a high stakes showdown with republicans over raising the debt ceiling. this is a moment where president biden is trying to rally the troops here on capitol hill ahead of what will be a really tense and very important next few months on chul. whats his message going to be to them? >> this is genuinely the case when it comes to th...

Muzzle visalli -- >> -- >> what must he think as he watches this absolute degradation of the grand old party? >> who is a very good night for mitch mcconnell. he needs the republican half to be seen as the range and out of control. because he, in the end, in his version of the debt ceiling increase, hopes that hopes to martial the money people of the republican party, to talk to kevin mccarthy. they already are. but to move in a way that will crush the screaming hordes in the back of that room, ...

>> martha: so this is not a republicans party, this is not it, she says, not her judgment. >> that is her judgment, but america thinks something different. the four years she was speaker, they lost seats. we just won the majority. i think we have a very strong republican party and much more diverse. when you look at the response from sarah huckabee sanders, juan sisk amani delivered in spanish, i think this party is more broad, representing more people with better ideas. >> martha: quick questio...

About house republicans not negotiating over the debt ceiling increase. >> how can you explain the fact that grown men and women are unwilling to budge up until now and still some of them are still unwilling to budge by taking an absolute position. my way are no way. thats not governing. thats no way to govern. you cant govern that way. >> so, lets see what happens tonight. tonights state of the union address. lets bring in our panel juan williams is. big times. you had to deal with it in the bu...

On that vote. myself and 12 of my republican colleagues ended up putting that bill over the finish line. those werent extra padding votes. they were outcome determinative votes. of course were prepared to do it. its this structure of government that our problem solvers caucus lives for and exists. instead of gridlock we come to the center and build two-party solutions. >> youre willing to break with republican leadership if need be and work with democrats to raise the debt ceiling, for example, ...