the whiz, right? he really doesn t have any powers just like glen da tried to tell y all. i said this last night. how in the lilliput can we take this party seriously? here s an interesting plot twist. according to politico, the supposedly all powerful under boss went to discuss this with two nominal democrats, can you guess who? senator joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. shortly after the ideal of blowing up the filibuster became a real prospect. that, that is what mitch mcconnell fears the most. republicans are not happy at this capitulation. ted cancun cruz took to the floor to complain because that s all he s good at. in the game of chicken, chuck schumer won this game of chicken. as two trucks drove towards each other on a country road, one or the other was going to turn or you were going to have a lot of dead chickens.
out what s happening next. it sure is. i was there in the senate in 2011, ten years ago and we had our last major debt ceiling crisis. where we came within a few days of defaulting, and we reached a deal at the last minute, but, what s different about now versus then, is that we were engaged in an active, open negotiation, in 2011, in the weeks leading up to the death. all right, now there is nothing going, on mitch mcconnell is not making any demands as he was back then, he just is basically sort of playing this game of chicken, and staring down the prospect of do you, fall and frankly what he s doing is, he s daring democrats, to reform the filibuster, as you laid out, and your opening. and i think, he s not necessarily operating from a position of strength here, in large part i think his stance is determined by the fact that
too important to fail. democrats need to be rallied around that idea, the white house says. if this goes down to defeat, cr them. jim vandehei, the president isn t going to beg, twist arms, force people. at the same time, i ll ask you the same question, the consequences of not moving forward on these two key pieces of legislation, are democrats aware of that? are they talking about that? what are they saying biden needs to do to get this over the line? they re hyper aware of it. even coresswon dingell said earlier, they re unified on the idea that ifhey have nothing, it d be catastrophic for the democratic party. what bernie sanders said in the clip at top of the show is the problem. he s not wrong. the mite they agree to the infrastructure bill and that s signed int law, they lose all of their leverage on the $3.5 trillion or whatever it shrinks to. so that she game of chicken.
are staring at each other, playing a game of chicken, a rather dangerous game of chicken, particularly if there s a default for a shutdown. it s unclear at the moment how this ultimately gets resolved, kate. when it comes to the debt ceiling, so everyone knows, manu and i unfortunately slept often on capitol hill when it came to debt ceiling fights. republicans have passed the debt ceiling and raised the debt ceiling. they have done this many times before. they did during the trump administration with no fanfare or fight. this when it comes to the debt creeling is all about political messaging but it can become a real problem when it s linked up now with the government funding fight. good to see you, manu. we ll see what happens. coming up for us, police and fbi are now back at a nature reserve in the hunt for petit-troupgabby petito. we ll have the latest next.
sinema, they re saying they won t support the reconciliation plan. it s really kind of an interesting back and forth to watch because pelosi said she s waiting on the senate to pass the reconciliation bill. or at least, that was her stance previously. so, basically, you re having leadership projecting of getting it done. but it s really, you know, walking this narrow line of pulling in progressives and moderates to support the reconciliation and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. and with quite a bit hanging in the balance, especially when it comes to the debt ceiling and a potential government shutdown, we don t have very much time at all. but if you were betting, do you think there s going to be a government shutdown come next month? you know, this is really a high-stakes football game of chicken. you have both leaders who are known when they speak publicly keeping their word. and i think that you re seeing democrats are being squeezed quite a bit because they said they did not