house republicans have repeatedly come up empty-handed when asked a straightforward question given that they re now in charge of the house, what do they want to cut? this is in the context of a possible debt showdown looming. social security and medicare are off the table, then where do republicans want to cut spending? that s going to be the part of the dance. well, the dance is here, and that s the context for the president s meeting late today. this was his first meeting with the new speaker, kevin mccarthy. we don t have the deal because the white house kept it as a closed press first summit. biden we know has sat at that resolute desk before, had his share of high stakes meetings and watched as vice president when then president obama faced a similar effort to ransom the economy. republicans are offering a similar brinksmanship, but also have internal fights with a narrow majority about what they want to do and what they want to cut. house republicans say they migh
well, the audience doesn t know what they want. do you agree? a lot of what he said resonates if you start making music for everyone else, i think it will change the way you create. and as a creator, you re always thinking, what s in here. what s in here. what do i want to hear. what excites me. that s the way i like to create. so i definitely agree with that sentiment. looking back at another big award winner who has continued to be one of the biggest artists in the world, here is drake at the grammys. we play an opinion-based sport. this is a business where sometimes it s up to a bunch of people that might not understand, you know, what a mixed race kid from canada has to say or a fly spanish girl from new york. the point is, you ve already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word. if you re a hero in your hometown. you don t need this right here. you don t need the award as he holds it. so this is the tough question i
expensive or taxes are too high. the way you traditionally deal with that is elect people who agree with you and say in public what the truth of your positions are. we had a top republican on this show recently. one of the things i asked him is are you going to govern transparently or are you going to do secret side deals and we don t know what you stand for? that s an extreme plank in the party. many republicans, some in the leadership, who don t seem to be able to say what it is they want to cut. we have got to get control over spending in washington. now that we have a republican majority who is serious about making spending cuts, serious about trying to get government under control, government spending under control. we need to attach to it fiscal controls or other spending cuts. exactly what those are we re not willing to lay out today. we re all behind kevin and wishing him fwhel the negotiations. what about the debt ceiling?
so you know how we do it at the beat, we go to the source, the man behind music s biggest night, harvey mason jr., his work spans film, television and theater, written and from duesed songs for or wreath that franklin, mariah carey, elton john and collaborated with beyonce all the way out to beaver. i know you re busy right now. thanks for doing this. thanks for having me. we are busy. we re excited. when you look at this night, why does it still matter including the people who might not be obsessed with music, and who can we expect to hear from? oh, my gosh, well the lineup is incredible.
thank you. i want to give you a chance to respond to what seems to be tension in the republican caucus. shea, i m going to bring you in first on whether you think there s any progress that the president has gotten the speaker to do this privately. maybe they think they have some way out of it. what does it mean when that many republicans say cut, cut, cut but i won t tell you how. this feels like a shakedown, like kevin mccarthy is a character from the sopranos. nice country here, shame if anything happens to it. normally you campaign on ideas, and when you re elected you try to enact those ideas. the problem here was republicans did not run on anything that they re talking about now. they did not run on the 30% sales tax. they did not run on cuts to social security and medicare. they did not even run that much on sort of cutting the defense budget which you re hearing a