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Debt limit vote a number of decades ago. it was a self-created facility. something that congress itself required. and it was kind of backwards, right? you spend the money, then you take another vote about whether youre going to pay off your bills. now, we all love that in our personal lives, but it doesnt make any sense. and its only there as leverage for the future. now, the republicans will probably think at this point, this leverage worked. because what they got out of this at the end, laila,...

Republicans did seem to win on many of hair talking points. i think for those that dissent, congressman dan bishop, senator mike lee who said, you know, a winning strategy is not punting when youre sitting on your opponents 1-yard line. you dont punt at the 1-yard line, thats not how you win. the implication republicans do have the leverage because they control the house, and joe biden would take the blame for a failure on the debt ceiling. he needs a deal. and in that context, $1.9 billion on t...

Until all ukraines whole again. >> weve heard so often that a negotiated settlement is the only way to bring an end to the war. thats true. virtually any conflict. what gains do you -- do ukraine forces need to have to make on the battlefield in order for president zelenskyy to feel he has the leverage he needs to sit down at the table. >> first of all you can never reach anything at the negotiations that you cannot reach on the battlefield. any general will tell you that. its true. second -- >>...

>> right. even by admission, speaker mccarthy said he may not have 100%. he feels confident that he is going to be able to get a good majority of his caucus. will this be a victory for him? his first big potential victory. >> i think it will be. certainly, he will sell it that way. he weill tout the fact he was able to negotiate a resolution and in his mind deliver. i think what republicans is they used the debt ceiling again as leverage. for the third time since 2011, this has been undertaken. ...

Holding the country hostage during all of this. that you didnt have to do this during the debt ceiling process. you could have done this during the budget and appropriation process. why do it during the debt ceiling process? >> when you have -- >> was your party country hostage? >> we were negotiating for a deal in a divided government. i think its important to recognize and i think the white house is coming around to the point that they dont control all three branches of government anymore. as ...

>> it has to be unsettling but if youre congresswoman jayapal or president biden, there was an early stage where there needed to be more pressure that if a deal was not reached, that republicans would be at fault for risking our status as the worlds reserve economy and tanking the current us economy. the white house has done some messaging on that, fred, but havent consistently hammered that home since the beginning of the year. remember at the end of the last congress, democrats didnt push forc...

Get rid of it. -- the presidency and gets both houses, he should put this on the table and get rid of this for could. >> the problem is, the list of things we actually have to change is really long. michael, you are a conservative. there are legitimate differences between democrats and liberals and conservatives about whether we should raise taxes on the wealthy or on corporations or spend less. wherever you stand on this thing, there is a budget process, which republicans control now. there is ...

Kind of do this fight, lose in the primary, and wind up having a failed governor of virginia, and a failed governor for president. those are the calculations that kind of sound true here, is the donor and establishment political class saying that we need someone in this race now. my submission to all of them is not too late. because what they should have done, ill put it out there. if i had been in that room, in any of these, firms i wouldve said okay. you decide amongst yourselves. all you want...

The gop has decided to do. >> we heard sahil talk about the possible 24 implications for president biden with the negotiations going up until the very end. does max frost have a point? >> reporter: he is reflecting the views of many house democrats, yasmin, who do want the president to be more aggressive using his bully pulpit to frame up the negotiations. the white houses view is theyre trying to cut a deal here and turning up the volume and attacking his negotiators is probably not going to be...

Forbes real-time billionaire list that have a net worth greater than that. we begin with cnns jeremy diamond at the white house. as you know, several democrats say they will not support any agreement that has work requirements for benefits, including medicaid or food stamps. the president has expressed openness to at least making those requirements stricter, perhaps, lowering the age. how is the white house managing that difference there? do they believe they can push this forward and lose some ...