oblige it to control itself. brit, enjoy the sunny skies. thanks, megyn. the house voting 221 to 201 to increase the debt ceiling, no strings attached. america already owes a staggering $17.3 trillion. the number is guaranteed to go up. senator reid is scheduling a vote for tomorrow. chris steiger walt joins us on the breaking news. ted cruz doesn t want it to happen, but it s going to happen. it s going to happen, and what is the pain factor. he s going to bring the pain. you ve got ted cruz, he ll be joined by rand paul, they ll be joined by others who will make sure that the majority has to have 60 votes to get it through, that means five unhappy and unlucky republicans will have to walk the plank at the behest of
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oblige it to control itself. brit, enjoy the sunny skies. thanks, megyn. the house voting 221 to 201 to increase the debt ceiling, no strings attached. america already owes a staggering $17.3 trillion. the number is guaranteed to go up. senator reid is scheduling a vote for tomorrow. chris steiger walt joins us on the breaking news. ted cruz doesn t want it to happen, but it s going to happen. it s going to happen, and what is the pain factor. he s going to bring the pain. you ve got ted cruz, he ll be joined by rand paul, they ll be joined by others who will make sure that the majority has to have 60 votes to get it through, that means five unhappy and unlucky republicans will have to walk the plank at the behest of
who already have jobs. essentially to the haves and it hurts the have notes in the long run. very interesting. i had not heard that argument before. we re waiting for the president to put pen to paper. i can t believe he s late. thank you. seems to be norm. the senate voting right now on whether to cut off debate on the debt ceiling. another big thing happening today. that would allow eye final vote on a one-year extension, no strings attached. we re live on capitol hill. mike, where do things stand right now in the senate? gretchen, they re in the first of two votes on this debt ceiling deal. they need 60 votes. so there s a bit of drama because you ve got 55 democrats. so they need five republicans to come along and say, okay, let s go forward with this debt ceiling deal. so a bit of drama here. but we ll see exactly how it all plays out. earlier the senate majority leader praised the speaker of the house. a few reasonable house republicans willing to join
one in october. if there wasn t a single issue the caucus can rally behind, it was probably best in his mind to go with a clean debt ceiling deal and that is what happened in the end. jon: the president gets a clean increase in the debt ceiling, no strings attached. republicans come out generally unscathed except maybe more conservative voters and tea party members who really want to hammer this debt thing. let s look forward now, it is all going to be about obamacare? well, that s the hope. if you keep it about obamacare, that really helps republicans in the 2014 election. why? there are six seats standing in a way between republicans and control of the senate. if they do control the senate, that is a great opportunity to actually do something about the debt. those senate seats are in states