christine romans. it s memorial day here in the u.s. glad you re with us. let s get going. we begin this morning with president biden defending the deal he made with house speaker kevin mccarthy to raise the debt limit for two years. it takes the threat of catastrophic reform off the table. protects our hard-earned economic recovery. and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. mccarthy agreed to raise the debt limit in explain for cuts to the budget. even though, the president insisted to reporters he wasn t actually negotiating on the dead limit. want to try to make it look like i made some grow myself in the debt ceiling, i didn t. i made a compro 3450is on the budget. that s what they wanted a compromise on the budget, that s what you ve done, even though you haven t gone as far as you wants, in that right? sure, can you think of an alternative? the president praised mccarthy, although he avoided predicting whethe
$2.1 trillion we ve ever had. if i can parrot to when republicans were in the majority when they had the house, the senate and everything, they didn t cut anything. that s house speaker kevin mccarthy defending the debt limit agreement hours before the bill barely cleared a republican led house committee. we ll have a look at where the vote count stands in the full house as lawmakers from both parties continue to criticize the bill. also ahead, we re learning more about what was reportedly happening inside mar-a-lago as the justice department ramped up the pressure on donald trump to turn over classified documents. plus we ll have an update from eastern europe following another drone strike inside russian territory. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where the house rules committee voted in favor of advancing the debt ceiling bill to a
spirit of individualism once and for all. our government spends too much money, we learned more about that this week. but perhaps more importantly, they work tirelessly each day to pry more freedoms away and tell us what we can do, how we can do it, and probably most concerning, why we should do it. in other words, they want to be our moral compass, our conscious, and our conviction. for most of us, this is really troubling because we already have that fundamental belief system. our sense of right and wrong was set years of learning and parenting and our experiences in faith. what we call in the south a raising. we were raised to have ethics and beliefs we hold but maybe that s not the case for an increasingly growing segment of our population. maybe more and more americans aren t getting necessary examples tra considerably set by their mothers and fathers make ping it easier for the state to step in and fill that role. we know many left wing ideologues and organizations work
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greg: because it s the only late night show in america. i ll take it. i don t care. so today senior intel officials testified on capitol hill on worldwide threats. among the topics, china, russia, iran, artificial intelligence, and also geraldo removing his shirt in front of children. a.i. is now in the same discussion as some of our biggest, most dangerous adversaries, so you think we would put someone serious in charge of it, right? someone with gravitas and a piercing bo electricity, someone who could ensure everything is under control. so who would we pick? what do you want to know? greg: it makes sense. every time i hear the words artificial intelligence, i think of her. but it s true, kamala has been tapped as the administration s point person on a.i. apparently to see if artificial intelligence is no match for her natural stupidity. by the way, how is she going to help by sleeping with r-2-d-2? terrible. greg: maybe it s a genius move to have our most innanhu