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andrea mitchell picks up with news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the debt ceiling legislation clears the house with a bipartisan vote. a showdown in the senate starting today. a handful of senators in both parties demanding amendments that could delay final passage past mondays default did the line unless leaders can win agreement to overcome their objections. >> time is a luxury the senate does not have. if we want to prevent default. any needless delay or last-...

to pay stamp duty. i found that out this morning. thats good. its a trickle—down budget. sometime in the future, we may see a benefit, if all goes well. but the poor need help right now. in nother news, four russian—occupied areas of ukraine are staging referendums on whether to become part of russia. western governments call them a sham. the first woman to win the booker prize twice, the celebrated author dame hilary mantel, has died at the age of 70. hello. in a massive shake up ...

Same but not exactly the same, and she did that through very, very detailed research, she cared very much about the subject. she said you can really feel yourself there. it does because she did her homework. she was always very careful to credit the people that supported her work, in particular someone called mary robertson, who she would turn to when she needed those details that would really make her work, alive. she said in that clip that it took her 20 years that she thought about writing. h...