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What im doing is working right now. so, why am i going to prioritize a whole bunch of other stuff? i think by the time hes running for reelection, hes going to have to make some promises that are forward-looking, not just backward. >> but peter baker, to that point, that was sort of the connection to the death ceiling, right? we got an economy that is working right now despite everyones warnings about it. dont derailed us. >> yeah, he said republicans are threatening to hold it hostage, that was...

The families of the victims. its just awful. lets turn to the debt ceiling. the white house says they want congress to pass a clean debt ceiling increase. no negotiations with republicans at all. is that a mistake? >> i think its a mistake because we have to negotiate. this is a democracy that we have. we have a two-party system, if you will. we should be able to talk and find out where our differences are. if theyre irreconcilable, you have to move on from there and let the people make their ...

Is some question whether that is even constitutional since the death may not be questioned under the 13th amendment and the 14th amendment. but they should not hold it hostage. the idea that they could exempt things that would be politically unhappy for them as just not bright. obviously, we dont want to stop medicare and social security funding. but to defund the border patrol, to defund the immigration service and to defund the faa, so the planes cannot fly, that is stupid and you know they wa...

Right name anymore. the people with the biggest megaphones on the right. the marjorie taylor greens of the world seem to be able to exert the most control over the direction of the conference as a whole by honestly you could argue theyre holding it hostage. >> well, you can argue that. but i think we have to get -- and ive told this to kevin on many occasions and i brought it up in front of our conference last week. you talk about all these things and they want to do a budget and create the appr...

Debt ceiling and that very clearly republicans in the making all these noises about what theyre going to do is they are going to hold it hostage like they did back in 2011 to get the cuts they wanted. if he cuts social security and medicare. my read of the election results is the narrow or the republican house margin is, the less likely they can make that threat, because they will have frontline members who know what to do it. but what is your read about what the odds are for big, nasty debt def...

>> its the democrats who are doing the inflation reduction act and the republicans are burning books. >> so one of the things stephanie that ive been most since fixated on the upcoming debt ceiling and that very clearly republicans in the making all these noises about what theyre going to do is they are going to hold it hostage like they did back in 2011 to get the cuts they wanted. if he cuts social security and medicare. my read of the election results is the narrow or the republican house mar...

Judicial, and executive branches. when they are now saying, outright, out loud, that we are going to manipulate and control the judicial branch of government, if that does not -- >> hold it hostage. >> hold it hostage. and stop any process from going forward. if that doesnt make people organize and get ready to come out and vote no matter what they do, i dont know what will. they have gone from those extremists that tried to stop a certification of a vote on january 6th to where now elected gent...

Invasion? >> we havent known whether he was threatening ukraine with the troops around his borders in order to hold it hostage and get concessions out of nato, which putin hasnt been able to get, or whether he sees this as part of his legacy to seize more parts of the country, which putin sees as part of the historic country of russia. and he might be calculating that at this time you have a relatively green leader inside ukraine who might not be able to lead a fight back after some sort of even...

Life of operating these you cant get ahold of them because youre basically held hostage. thats a safety concern there was here but we say it weapon weapon icing a nuclear power but as we mean he is going to use the power that plant produces and hold it hostage. you can cut it off, cut it down. the biggest concern is simply their ability to operate the plant regularly. that is what they need to be able to do the latest report was there starting to have shifted changes. they are starting to allow ...

Holding it hostage and spending. we have to avoid a government shutdown on wednesday bysing some kind of a spending bill, instead of putting the humanitarian aid for ukraine on the side, broad bipartisan support, i guarantee it would pass, they put it as a part of the large spending bill which a lot of us will not go for, makes life harder for american families, a hard enough time because of rising energy prices. thats the bad news. the democrats have a chance to lead, to show the rest of the wo...