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billions of dollars you can burn a lot of it to turns out. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. >> i odmean, listen, between th two of us, buddy, one of us tweets a lot less than the other person. >> i like to tweet. i'm a poster to my veins. but t if i may i think i have a little more self-awareness than elon musk. a little bit. >> okay, okay. it'sy, cross talk so we can't really get into it. >> oh, i can't believe you're not agreeing. >> i support the self-awareness and certainly the conversation. thank you as always. and thank you for joining us this evening. ...

air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i'll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow >> thank you for joining us this. evening so often plans are up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this state in pan, june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it's an important day, and man it is really coming, up really, around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed ...

Ben--. then, thank you for being here. what a day, what a time to start the new gag. let me just get right to, i think the question that a lot of folks are wondering, is the white house now negotiating over the debt limit? >> no. look, alex, default is not an option. it would tip the country into a recession and cost us millions of jobs and the president simply won't allow that to happen. what the president has been hoping to do throughout this process is a budget negotiation. it's an appropriations negotiation, a typical process, and so he has deployed his team to capitol hill to negotiate an...

Which sounds a lot like negotiations over a debt ceiling. if that is the case, how does this all end, and what do democrats get out of it? joiningt us now for his very first television interview since assuming the job of white house communications director is ben labol. thank you for being here. what a day and time to start the newe gig. i think the question a lot of folks are wondering -- is the white house now negotiating over the debt limit? >> no. look, alex,it default is not an option. it would tip the country into recession and cost us millions of jobs. the president won't allow that to ...