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raised. >> its nonnot an acceptable situation for us to be able to pay our bills. >> thats treasury secretary janet yellen, reiterating her belief that the united states will go into default if the debt ceiling is not raised in just nine days. it comes as president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are set to meet again today in hopes of hashing out their growing differences on the budget. also ahead, well recap the presidents trip to japan for the g7 summit, which included a me...

wild fair fire -- fire across the u.s. president biden set to make his first trip to the southern border this sunday. the visit comes after two years in office and more than 4 million migrant encounters. is it too little too late? more on those stories throughout the hour. first a fight for the speakers gavel enters day four. republicans remain divided after 11 rounds of voting. the most since 1859 as lawmakers hint negotiations could last through the weekend. im dana perino. >> bill: ...

When you look at what the markets did last week, they almost felt like a deal was baked in. the question is going to be does one of the indexes drop a thousand points? if that happens, you can see people start to move. if not, theres that discharge position in the house that would need some republicans to come on board. there are 213 democrats on that petition expected by the end of the day and they would need that magic 218. youd have to have some moderate republicans get very nervous that a de...

Thinking. that they will have to have. it is not just a five-seat majority. that everyone has to work together and the entire conference has to learn how to do that. we could see, guys, remember, fewer members here in person today and that would definitely change that magic 218 number to a lower threshold. well see what happens today. >> dana: thank you so much. lets bring in shannon bream. anchor of "fox news sunday." we love the new prom owe. we want answers from you. 10:15 a house republican ...

Move closer to january. he need to hit that magic 218 number then. it was sort of a metric for how powerful he is now. the number he got today. now we have to see him actually hit that number come january. >> can i throw one out for the beltway insider nerds out there. congressman tom emmer is also going to be in republican leadership. beating out jim banks for that position. sort of interesting. >> yeah. pretty interesting especially because we watched a lot of trump insiders trying to coalesce...

Experience in whip counting. but he probably isnt wrong that right now as we speak kevin mccarthy doesnt have the 218 he needs to become speaker. that vote will happen in january. by the entire house of representatives and as jessica just pointed out what youll see today is a vote for the majority of his caucus that he believes hes likely to get. and people close to mccarthy who im talking to even before coming on with you, they are bullish on the idea that most of the republican members, incomi...

Year. i think its possible parties, coalitions, both republicans and democrats, have coalitions that sometimes dont line up. but theyre closer to each party, would identify with that party. remember, kevin mccarthy had the majority of votes in the conference itself, in the republican conference, where that magic 218 number when it goes to the full floor of the house. if you dont hit the 218 number, it causes a problem. youd have to go to democrats in order to elect a speaker and certainly they w...

The month. ashleigh? >> to be a fly on the wall, dana. i know this drives you crazy that you have to be on the outside of the door when they all head in there momentarily. just so our viewers understand the candidates have already done their personal pitches. they got three minutes to do it. this is when they get their supporters to stand up and lobby for them and they only have a couple minutes to do that, too. this should be exciting. im going to scoot over, dana. let us know if you catch anyb...

But at this point, there is 40 people that are uncommitted who they are going to support. >> tomorrows vote, is a steppingstone to the full house vote for the election of speaker that occurs on october 29th. and if that gop is notably to consolidate the support and reach the magic 218 vote threshold, the republicans will have a big problem on their hands indeed. >> we have to unite. last thing you want to cede more room to nancy pelosi. we will unite. >> and despite the recent gaffe house majori...

The medical tax industry was there at the table with the hospitals, with the insurance companies, and it said, were going to give you 40 million new customers and you make 90 corrects on the dollar for every new device you make. youll be making a lot of money out of this. how about ponying up some stuff? if we delay that for having corporations by some gimmick to come to a better resolution on the whole problem, i think the president would be doing the right thing. >> representative sestak said ...