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president joe biden, house speaker kevin mccarthy, and their negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling. we are learning that house democrats have been invited to a virtual all-member briefing from the white house, set for tomorrow at five p.m. eastern, according to a notice that just went out and has been obtained by nbc news. kevin mccarthy said the text of the agreement will be available to members tomorrow, promising that house republicans that they wi...

Negotiating thing, anymore. but, at the same time, in the reality we are in because it is such a narrow margin in congress, and the republicans control the house and kevin mccarthy is controlled, in part, by marjorie taylor greene in the right wing of that party. we are where we are, and there are things that are not ideal that president biden, and of course, many, many, if not elevators would want to report. including elie element of work requirement, giving up money that would go after taxes, ...

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So, is president trump bound by president obamas executive order? no, presidents with negate the executive orders of their predecessors. but there is the freedom of 700,000 human beings at stake. steve: sure. and you make the point that its probably a negotiating thing and the president has made it very clear, give me the wall. i will give you daca attachment stuff like that. there is some trading. at the same time, president obama said before this. he said i cant do he did it. really isnt the s...

Thinking about? >> the message is to china. >> they -- theres been like chinese steel, going through china into our country a couple years ago. there was a chinese firm that built up $2 billion of aluminum in mexico. the greater point here is that its a negotiating thing. we want better nafta deals. its antiquated. we need to fix it. >> neil: but youre a big free marketer. you said the tariffs will reveal what other countries do to us. so its revealed a lot of them do rig things, china especiall...

Realizes that, you know, people dont really hold me to these things, so i can actually say what i want to say, do what i want to do, and still accomplish what is, i think on balance, what a lot of people think are actually pretty good things for the american economy and pretty good things for us from a national security point of view. >> i get what youre saying, senator santorum. do you worry, though, about, you know, fareed zakaria made the point before that the presidents words in some cases a...

He knows because hes done it over and over again, he can walk them back and make a deal. but its a strategy for him. he likes to do it. it liberates him by letting trump be trump, but he also realizes that, you know, people dont really hold me to these things, so i can actually say what i want to say, do what i want to do, and still accomplish what is, i think on balance, what a lot of people think are actually pretty good things for the american economy and pretty good things for us from a nati...

Immigration reform, steve, its not practical. >> that could be, brian. perhaps for that reason, maybe extend it another six months. something like that. i think the president showed great compassion. many people within the white house were arguing against even the six month extension that he granted. and, listen, the congress has been obstructionists from the get-go. and im talking about republicans by the way. >> sure. >> in the congress to the presidents agenda. i agree with you. im not confid...

Howie, with the top executives -- >> it was no question it was something of an authorized leak. i was saying it was 50/50 he would come back. youve got to measure his whole successful career at nbc versus the incidence at iraq. but now that you have more examples or the alleged examples the details of which we havent seen, it feels like a tipping point. >> it absolutely feels like a tipping point. in my head i tipped right away. but now -- >> youre hard to tip over. >> but now, in terms of the l...

Countries when it comes to all kinds of international terrors. top tier for human trafficking and worst ranking for human rights, when it comes to corruption they rank 127th out of 175 countries. have we enabled russia? have we empowered them to have an outsized place of significance on the world stage? >> no, we havent. for example, one of the things weve done under the bush administration and clinton continued it was to enlarge nato. we move right up to the -- they were not happy about that. b...