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Morning, sir! rishi sunak has a lot to weigh up this week. hes been chancellor through an unprecedented crisis which has meant unprecedented spending. now a trickier path — he wants to balance the books at the same time as announcing a number of spending commitments. one of the elements of building a stronger economy is having strong public services, and you will see that next week — whether its the nhs, which weve already taken steps to support significantly to recover from coronavirus, chi...

Johnson years and then next few years. boris johnson may — years and then next few years. boris johnson may announce _ years and then next few years. boris johnson may announce a _ years and then next few years. boris johnson may announce a support package for businesses struggling with the high energy costs. what goes through your mind about where that money will be coming from? the chancellor that money will be coming from? tt2 chancellor is going to be rewarded with quite a lot less borrowi...

>> according to the u.s. treasury, senator, the debt limit does not authorize new spending commitments. even if the democrats are unable to pass infrastructure, unable to pass social infrastructure, if both those bills die, correct me if im wrong here, you would still have to raise the debt limit. >> you would not have to raise it as soon and you would not have to raise it as much. >> so our friend tony there over at cbs, he wasnt wrong. what toomey is saying is not right. >> no, its not right. ...

More. so today the white house is agreeing theres no such thing as a free lunch but disagreeing at the end of the day who will pick up the tab. neil? >> very interesting. hillary, thanks for that. hillary vaughn. were just getting this in from bernie sanders who is not to keen on the go-ahead vote scheduled for thursday on the infrastructure only package. the $1 trillion or so bipartisan efforts. without it being attached to far bigger spending commitments, lets be clear in the bill is passed on...

That we should keep running every day in the lower crawl the u.s. department because it keeps going up and up and up, and it is changing. you can see the rapidly moving numbers here. its already up close to $2 trillion under this president, up $9 trillion under president trump, close to $10 trillion under barack obama, almost $5 trillion under george bush. you get the picture, it goes up and up and up. and they have to increase that debt ceiling to account for prior spending commitments, and the...

Ahead of this weeks nato summit in london. president trump and emmanuel macron over the last year have been call into question the value of the alliance at a time when theyre beset by internal divisions on how to handle china and russia. theyre saying its going to be a celebration for the great progress theyve made. but senior officials have said theyve learned to wait until trump talks and not to take the talking points at face value. theyve been burned before, they say. in 2017 prufesident tru...

Central london gridlocked by 50,000 individuals. this is stloord a u.s. president is coming to london and evading the center of the capital, evading parliament. you you would expect him to get a guided tour around. hell drop in for a matter of hours, regents park, an area a seventh of which has been taken over by maximum security, the bill for which some say could run to $15 million or so so a capital where local and national politicians seem to think its an easy goal to deride the president and...

Spending commitments. >> he pointed out that only five of the 28 nato allies make that 2% commitment. 23 do not. he said he wants them to live up to those financial responsibilities and even go back and pay for previous years. it was a very stern lecture from the president. phil black, thanks for much for that report. lets bring in senator ben car de -- oh senator, thanks for joining us. lets talk about the leaks. how damaging are these leaks, the relations right now between the u.s. and the uk?...