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♪♪ good morning. welcome to "morning joe." this morning, a debt ceiling deal seems to be on the right path. house speaker kevin mccarthy had a much more optimistic tone yesterday while answering questions about the negotiations. well have those comments for you. it comes as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. the group just announced a new round of sanctions for russia, aimed at closing loopholes moscow has been using since the start of the ukr...

People. >> right. >> it was $3.5 trillion. really, what mccarthy is doing is performance politics around this work requirement. he is not going to accomplish anything. i get it, that the democrats are pushing back. but the next big question, jonathan, we all need to ask, besides the b.s. that the work requirement stuff represents as far as mccarthy is concerned, is how many democratic votes will mccarthy need? >> right. >> hes not going to get everybody. >> mm-hmm. >> if i was in that negotiatin...