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Government defaulting on its bills, mitch mcconnell is telling democrats not ask minorities help on raising the debt ceiling again come december. we go wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. lets beginning with daniela diaz. the next limit of the debt level fight. mcconnell sending this letter to biden. now what? >> we wait and see what happens, fred. this week was really busy especially on the senate side as the democrats navigated trying to figure out how they were g...

Theres good news on the economy and the jobs front. the weekly jobs claim falling the most, down to 326,000 and combining the better jobless claims to the private payroll report that we had earlier this week. were looking at solid september jobs reports tomorrow. economists are forecasting 500,000 new jobs and the rate should come down to 5.1%. >> susan li following the developments. you do begin to wonder, are the markets getting ahead of themselves. this puts this off another couple months. th...

Were trying to restore that with a care economy but climate change was left out of the invest act and everybody recognizes the freeze that killed 150 people. heres whats important. we havent walked away. were walking towards a negotiation. the president needs to give us more time. the president needs to reinforce with the senate and these two senators in particular if they are representing others that they need to have a reasonable number to come to the table to be able to make sure that we have...

There isnt going to be an economic down turn. there are signs that is happening. everything from the inverted yield curve. but i think the biggest issue really is the massive amounts of uncertainty that now exist in our economy. and you layer that on top of these unsustainable debt levels which the cbo referenced yesterday in its big report that came out and we are very vulnerable. we are skating on thin ice. so any additional amounts of uncertainty or pessimism could put us in a recession. on t...

Effective stimulus and the result would be even higher debt level. i would say on this front, we know beer going have another recession. the business cycle still exists. we should put in place a plan that you have a fiscal package in the short run that reduces the economy and tie its to longer-term savings that kick in when the economy is strong again. if we had done that last time, we would be in better shape this time. we know politicians are unwilling to make the hard choices on the debt fron...

Unprecedented levels if lawmakers dont step in to change laws. that alarming news from the congressional budget office. cristina alesci is here. talk to us about the impact of the u.s. carrying debt. >> youre absolutely right, the impact right now is life is a party, its sort of like throwing down your credit card at a bar with your friends. it feels really good in the moment, in the long term, what our own government said today, the debt level right now poses or in the future poses a substantia...

That the u.s. has a higher debt capacity than our current debt level, nobodys going to argue with that. yes, we cant -- thats why the markets dont freak out as the deficit has gotten bigger. the problem with deficits, of course, is that you have to pay back the money. and it crowds out other priorities that we have rising debt. >> because there is interest. its not free. >> yeah, its not free. that said, we cant afford it. and its not really about mmt. mmt as a theory is confused. the argument t...

But so far italy is not changing course the government wants to deliver on campaign promises which include early retirement and increased spending on social services the problem is italys debt as high as one hundred thirty percent of gross domestic product only greece has an even higher debt level e.u. regulations cap any countrys debt at sixty percent of annual economic output financial markets are alarmed front pages warn of rising interest rates and banks are worried there are powerful player...

Deficit to two point four percent. while. selling off a few buildings is unlikely to calm down anyone in brussels hours before the budget deadline passed the i.m.f. also criticised rome for the current state of the economy with low income levels and high unemployment. all right and for more lets cross over now to brussels to our correspondent band. so refused to submit a revised budget plan as was widely expected how has that gone down with you officials. the u.s. official was staunchly opposing...

>> bill: how much better could it get? dream a little. >> we think its sustainable. weve said from the beginning we think the american economy can grow at 3%. weve done it for the last 12 months. the first time in 10 years it happened. its sustainable. it is that dynamism that comes to the economy and the better government finances that come from it. government revenues go up, government expenses go down. if you have a job you arent on food stamps. buried in the numbers is the fact that 1.3 mill...