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earlier today, president biden told reporters, he is confident a deal will reach his desk. and no more sticking points to iron out. msnbc news has also learned part of the deals -- raising the debt limit for two years, avoiding another debt showdown before the 2024 election. the deal also clause back some unspent pandemic funding, well talk about what that means. and shaves off some irs funding. it also expands work requirements for certain adults on food stamps. speaker mccarthy also ...

History we shared together when you were obviously the chairman. you said james baker was one of the best strategists. i think you learned under him, right? >> i consider him a mentor. james baker was more than a strategist. he was a great leader of political operatives and leader of people who were doing policy. there arent many people who can do both. baker could. maker all had the strength. he would let you come in and give you an idea and tell you, we cant do that. if you get another idea, r...

Every day, doing policy by tweets is really a shake-up for us, because theres no justification presented. theres no state department analysis. theres no nothing. and now theres a reluctance to respond to questions submitted by democrats, even the democratic ranking member, for example, if i were to write a letter as ranking member of judiciary to the white house, and ask some questions, not controversial, they dont necessarily have to answer me. >> yes. >> thats never existed before, regardless ...

Every day, doing policy by tweets is really a shake-up for us, because theres no justification presented. theres no state department analysis. theres no nothing. and now theres a reluctance to respond to questions submitted by democrats, even the democratic ranking member, for example, if i were to write a letter as ranking member of judiciary to the white house, and ask some questions, not controversial, they dont necessarily have to answer me. >> yes. >> thats never existed before, regardless ...

Into the conversation, which has been hijacked by donald trump, who was also in iowa today. >> there is style and subject here, jason. we talked about style here. subject, does america, beyond that room, it seemed to work there, want to have a fervent gun rights activist, after chattanooga, after lafayette, after charleston? is this the right tone for this topic? >> of course its not. but its a great tone for someone who wants to make hay in the primaries. theres cuts of him on youtube yelling a...

With the website. the question is, if say you were at hhs and advising the secretary about what to do and you got that memo, would you have advised the government to go ahead with the october one launch date knowing what was in that memo? >> im kind of the consumer media side of things. when you want to launch a property, sometimes you have a hard deadline, maybe something sold against it or promised to somebody really high upstairs and cant move that. that being said, you do pay attention to wa...