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Different battlefields. you have the factions that eliminate or reinstates deductions for state and local taxes. you have other factions that would like other things in the bill so when you put this all together, schumer, pelosi, and biden theyre like skating on thin ice through americay fog trying to figure out how to assemble a rubiks cube. they will get there, but it will be difficult to watch. >> quite a description. i want to ask you about the debt ceiling. you heard president biden in the ...

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Are amendments that can be offered, as many as hundreds court biden, it would have to go back to the house and pass there as well. what democrats and president biden are calling for is to take the bill the house passed, put it on the senate floor and democrats can pass it themselves. what biden is asking and schumer is asking mcconnell and republicans is drop the filibuster. allow democrats to raise it themselves through the normal process, which theyre willing to do. one of the reasons republic...

Its very difficult because thats what a lot of lawmakers are focused on. this comes up all the time. the president and leadership says its not about the price tag, it is about the price tag, and they have to come to agreement about the price tag or else this process is going nowhere. >> if it is about the price tag, ana, then did democratic leaders drop the ball? if chuck schumer knew a year and a half ago that 1 trillion or 2 trillion was joe manchins number, why werent they grinding off of tha...

Thats not going to happen and the reality is that democrats are probably going to have to figure this out on their own. fair? >> well, as i said earlier, schumer said to him, you dont want your fingerprints on the debt ceiling even though you voted on all the spending bills that created this debt ceiling extension? then step out of the way. let us do it by democratic vote. well accept that responsibility. the future of our economy is at stake here, and if he thinks hes going to score political p...

Tend to care about the debt limit, democratic voters, anyway. but schumer is taking this stance, and at this point there is not a lot of time to fix it, geoff. >> i think most people dont care or think about the debt limit until we get into these situations where were in crisis mode. bres, president biden said today he cant guarantee the u.s. wont default and even if democrats wanted to raise the debt limit via reconciliation, what leigh ann was just talking about, the process would be so cumber...

That was signed between senator schumer and senator manchin, saying he would not go above 1.5 trillion. that that was his starting position. why did, we i soon you found out about at the same way we did, when it was put out there into the public. just a couple days ago. why was that held on to so secretly, and doesnt that just kind of conjure up the perception that people have about washington, that these deals are done kind of in secret, and nobody gets to know it was actually agreed upon until...

2022. a couple of weeks ago we recorded that he told a town hall, lets do this in 2022. what was interesting about that letter that popped and his agreement, the four corners contract with schumer, $1.5 trillion. he says lets not talk about this in october 1st. he didnt expect to make real progress throughout the summer. and negotiators have been going on. there is been progress. manchins timeline still is not accelerated. manchins clock is still ticking slowly. >> well be watching for halloween...