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economic uncertainty. >> andrea? >> when you look at the government their job is to protect the citizens of the united states. that's what i am asking them to do. we all work with individuals that we don't always see eye to eye with. push those items aside and find a resolution to avoid this situation. >> brendan? >> politicians talk about how small businesses are -- the national economy. it's dangerous, irresponsible and doesn't reflect on america. >> jonathan, your message to washington? >> supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities isn't a partisan issue. we help the most vulnerable folks in society. so i'm hoping that washington thinks about their own family members and their own community could and realize that, you know what? folks aren't pawns. hopefully, congress is listening. thank you, guys. >> thank you for the platform. >> that's who i care about hearing -- i mean, the lawmakers
brendan is with trident builders, 60% of their business is federal contracts and joining us is jonathan graph with graph consulting behavioral specialist. his income comes from medicaid for children and adults in crisis. thank you for joining us this morning. what happens if we default on june 1? >> there is a government shutdown, our federal projects, for instance, that would take the federal government representatives off the project, which would shut down our project. then the decision is how long -- and then we can't submit for payment, can't receive payment. >> this isn't about a government shutdown, but about if we default. how would that affect your business, rosemary? >> if we don't have receivables coming in and projects aren't moving forward, how do we move forward with the project? it has a lot of ancillary issues. increased interest rates, right.
up in september. garrett, jason, brendan, thanks so much for setting the stage. joining us now is democratic congressman steny hoyer of maryland, the majority leader and whip as well. it's good to see you. >> good to be with you. >> we have known each other i figured this morning more than 40 years. both of us were on the local side. >> i will say more than that. >> you were in the state senate from prince george's county. i've known you to be a straight shooter. what's the deal here? how do you get around both sides of your caucus? how does he retain his speakership? how do you make this work? >> first of all, let me say, i think the speaker will remain the speaker. one of john boehner's people on previous to me, frankly, what
up moscow part b apologized to the american people deserve an apology, steve. think the fbi bad actors there on the seventh floor the department of justice shift, calmly, brendan, tapper, cnm the whole lot of them. i think they only get away with this if we are all as stupid as they think we are. and now they have awakened a sleeping giant. do not want to hear reforms have been in place for you do not want to hear nothing to see nothing to worry about. people should be very worried polymerization of our highest law enforcement agency is weaponization of our highest law enforcement agency. this is on the altar of winning a presidential campaign. we've got another went less than 18 months away. i think i am not the only american right now who feels free and a lack of security insurgency that we won't again see people the highest echelons of power trying to prop up the ultimate floppy jalopy lemon,
up moscow part b apologized to the american people deserve an apology, steve. think the fbi bad actors there on the seventh floor the department of justice shift, calmly, brendan, tapper, cnm the whole lot of them. i think they only get away with this if we are all as stupid as they think we are. and now they have awakened a sleeping giant. do not want to hear reforms have been in place for you do not want to hear nothing to see nothing to worry about. people should be very worried polymerization of our highest law enforcement agency is weaponization of our highest law enforcement agency. this is on the altar of winning a presidential campaign. we've got another went less than 18 months away. i think i am not the only american right now who feels free and a lack of security insurgency that we won't again see people the highest echelons of power trying to prop up the ultimate floppy jalopy lemon,
up moscow part b apologized to the american people deserve an apology, steve. think the fbi bad actors there on the seventh floor the department of justice shift, calmly, brendan, tapper, cnm the whole lot of them. i think they only get away with this if we are all as stupid as they think we are. and now they have awakened a sleeping giant. do not want to hear reforms have been in place for you do not want to hear nothing to see nothing to worry about. people should be very worried polymerization of our highest law enforcement agency is weaponization of our highest law enforcement agency. this is on the altar of winning a presidential campaign. we've got another went less than 18 months away. i think i am not the only american right now who feels free and a lack of security insurgency that we won't again see people the highest echelons of power trying to prop up the ultimate floppy jalopy lemon,
unserious to serve. >> brendan, that's the problem. you've got in one case these lies that are being pushed out there by, you know, santos and mccarthy is sitting there looking at his numbers going, well, i can't lose that vote. then you have gosar and you've got others who are embracing something that is just as nasty and white nationalism and hiring them on the staff. how does mccarthy manage this? is that one vote, one ortwo votes that close for him that to congresswoman dean's point, he just can't go there and say all right, we just lose this one. and we'll just work with the votes we got? what's the politics behind some of this? >> well, i think there's politics but there's also an important precedent i think he is thinking about. hopefully, the congresswoman and i agree, i don't think you want to set the precedent that someone being indicted means they're automatically removed
witch hunts and to your point, you're right. i serve with jim jordan, sadly, on the judiciary committee. he is flailing trying to weaponize his gavel against the biden administration to lift up mr. trump. it's a very sad circus, and what i really worry about and i would love both your and brendan's take, where do we go from here? where does the republican party go from here? they have taken themselves down such a terrible set of rabbit holes. >> so brendan, that's actually where i wanted to go with this question. and i'm glad the congresswoman set it up the way she did, because she's right in the sense that the brand is now toxic. you and i had to deal with that toxicity back in the day, as we were moving away from the 2006 and 2008 where the american people basically blanked us and said no and had to rebuild and try to get wins that would give
by a reporter, if it was something being reviewed and discussed and decided upon until the last minute which is a very much par for the course with these foreign trips. there's a diplomatic protocol. but if we read the tea leaves here, the other thing that the admiral mentioned is that the president is going to have an opportunity to also meet with the leaders that he would have met with at the quad summit in australia it sounds like in japan. so perhaps some of those key discussions are now all going to take place there and they're going to reevaluate whether the other stops are still possible because there's mounting pressure on republicans to deal with the looming debt crisis. it's something that will be coming up in the meeting at 3:00 p.m. mccarthy has been really outspoken at multiple press