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Lets turn now to the top issue on capitol hill. on the one hand, the pressure is on for democratic leaders to craft their reconciliation bill that will strengthen the u.s. safety net and garner the support of nearly every democrat in washington, but they face another big hurdle in the meantime, staving off a debt default that could send shock waves through an economy still recovering from the pandemic. joining me now, democratic senator, alex padilla from california. senator, it is great seeing ...

Dont say much about the future. but i think, you know, shes just facing reality. the court by 5-4 let the texas law go into effect, which effectively bans abortion in the state. and there is this mississippi case which you mentioned, which is upcoming, which bans abortion all together in mississippi. that 5-4 majority looks like its ready to change the law of roe v. wade, which women and men have expected to be the law for 50 years in this country. and shes just telling people, get ready. >> let...

She knows who she married. but she was humiliated and angry and what she didnt do is what typical political spouses do, which is sit down on a news talk show program, or walk hand and hand, in fact, she did the opposite, she demanded separate motorcades, she wouldnt walk across the lawn with him, and she requested that handsome military aides be selected to walk with her for state of the union, to be photographed with her, so she was very like melania trump, very calculated in her visual messagi...

Deteriorating bridges, thats important. but when you think about the child care system where huge segments of the providers have simply disappeared, mothers cant go back to work. we have to address the entire picture in order to have a prosperous, successful country. we need both bills. >> so lets talk about, then, the second one, the $3.5 trillion one as it stands now. moderates say they will only support the spending bill if the price tag is reduced. progress sives have said thats non-starter,...

Have your milk of magnesia. >> 1972. >> when youre watching "wheel of fortune," warm milk and crackers. donnie loves that. >> poor donnie. >> really does. >> donnie just cited geratol. >> i know. >> what did we do? >> going sideways here. >> this is a guy that watched lawrence with his grandmother. he saw the commercials. >> seriously. >> lets talk about -- since we dont want to get to the news. >> we should get to the news. >> lets talk about the emmys for a second. >> "ted lasso." >> willie is...

And my chair was custom made to me, but not nearly as spectacular as the seats that you see in the crew dragon. i think elon has made a step up in the beauty and efficiency department. >> jon: yeah, as we were mentioning earlier, he does know how to catch the eye with some of these designs. jose, lets talk about, you know, what you think this does for space exploration and, you know, the future of the u.s. space program. nasa is farming a lot of these missions out to private companies, and, you ...

Astronauts emerge fairly soon, but again, the leaps and bounds in computing technology in space flight, jose, are absolutely amazing. >> they are. i mean, they are so amazing that, you know, we can send civilians with practically no experience, granted that two of the civilian astronauts there are pilots, but they absolutely did not have to take control of the capsule, of the vehicle at no point, and thats due to the computational power and the development of space x, the folks that are able to ...

Four, and they realize, you know, we did it, and were home. >> jon: joining us now jose hernandez, a nasa astronaut who was on board the space shuttle discovery back in 2009. jose, are you feeling a little envy tonight? >> absolutely. any time i see someone go to space and come back, you know, it brings back great memories. and its the good type of envy, though, you know. its like this is great that we are sending more and more people to space, and now, you know, this is the epitome of it becaus...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think youve probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, its been a fund-raising campaign for st. judes, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and theres been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexa...

Because barring was not a problem for the 2017 republican tax cuts. there was no raising of hands, gnashing of teeth by republicans then. you get point. why not then and so much now. >> the debt ceiling needs to be raised and the democrats want to raise it by a lot for a lot of spending which to me is big government socialism. and im just not going to be a rubber stamp to that nor are any of the republicans that ive talked to. >> lets talk about -- >> so we have a 50/50 senate. that is what the ...