Hostage Taking Ability News Today

♪ youre live in the cnn newsroom. im jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nations debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global econom...

Hostage-taking ability of one side or the other. in this case the republicans are always the ones that are repeatedly willing to do that and hold a gun to the head of the nations economy. i do think we should take that off the table. i heard the president say it wouldnt be responsible and i thought he meant it wouldnt be responsible to eliminate the debt ceiling. im not sure -- i was cnt clea what he was saying. he wasnt wanting to go through the 14th amendment for the potential of judicial chal...