Mccarthy Overplayed News Today

chris jansing picks up our coverage right now. good day, im chris jansing in new york city. happy memorial day. and welcome to a special edition of chris jansing reports. the agreement on the debt limit is not done but is done but the fights not finished. the white house and the speakers office now in an 11th hour push to pick up every last vote in congress, trying to make sure their big deal doesnt go bust, but today is also about putting politics aside and honoring the men and wome...

Untransparent way. ive been reading the language, im asking questions when im done with this, im going to get on a briefing with john podesta. i sort of feel, i think i feel the way a lot of members do. i feel torn. i feel like we are being held hostage. we should be in regular order. we should never be in this position again. and yet i cannot will be rubber stamped. >> so let me ask you about the couple of the specifics on things you just touched on. one specific part of the deal and something ...

>> cant say that ive read anything negative in it whatsoever. the calculation i think for everybody is simply is it enough. >> i want to bring in nbcs senior national political reporter, sahil, and kelly odonnell. sahil, lets start on capitol hill. youve got several house republicans either criticizing the deal or saying outright theyre not going to vote for it. where does that leave kevin mccarthy? how many votes can he afford to lose? >> well, first, theres no magic number for speaker mccarthy...

Today where they have to go through a whole lot of red tape. so there are a few things in this bill but ultimately, thats why it deserves a good hard look. and the real answer here is how do we make sure we can get that gavel out of mccarthys hand so he is not in the decision seat in the future to make these types of compromises. >> if you were a professional gambler, do you think this is going to go through? >> i think it probably will. mccarthy overplayed his hand. if you look at where we star...