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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. ...

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 ...

Understand exactly what it is. there was an exchange on education. the president's doubled funding for college scholarships. mitt romney cut back in the area both in massachusetts and would cut funding for education by 20% currently, yet mitt romney stood on the stage and praised teachers last night when he in the past said we don't need anymore teachers and opposed president's legislation to put them back in the classroom. we'll hold him accountable for specifics he didn't share last night. jon: he pointed out that massachusetts was number one state in educational performance. there is that. ...