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Of, course he's looking, taking out a speaker if he pushes against this group of people? the big, the marjorie taylor greene, and those things, and so he doesn't need them to pass this. there are plenty of votes to pass this without the clown car. the question is, can he remain speaker if he actually defines the clowns car on a final vote? >> it's interesting, he did not come out of the white house to do what he did last week and say that we passed the bill to raise the debt limit. when you think about what was in that bill that his house passed, it was a lot of cuts that would hurt a lot of p...

But also want to see spending reined in. they fleeted ideas, imposing budget caps for several years, clawing back some covid relief money yet to the spent or work requirements for some who receive federal benefits. >> there has to be caps or otherwise we're growing out of control. we had just started negotiations last night. i now am optimistic because we have a structure that works, talk to me in a few days to see if i'm optimistic about how the negotiations are going. >> the negotiations ongoing. as for the president he will head overseas later on this morning. making his way to asia for the...

Spending cuts and budget caps for the next really decade. republicans have proposed maxing out discretionary spending at 2022 levels for as far out as the next ten years. now, louisiana republican garret graves has said that the white house is quote -- the way he put it is pushing for a shorter window, something more like a two-year spending caps deal but other republicans say a shorter deal like that would be very difficult to accept. so this may be the lay of the land today, but there is a long way between areas of common ground and consensus and actually getting this thing over the finish l...

Congress, this specific divided congress. >> i agree with everything he said. work requirements would be really difficult. this morning when mccarthy was coming out of his house republican meeting, i said are work requirements a red line for you? he said yes. he said he needs something on work requirements and part of that is internal politics. he needs to show he's fighting for the priorities that they passed in their bill, in their debt limit bill they passed last month. that's driving a lot of what he's doing here. but the thing mccarthy keeps saying and his aides keep saying, they want to ...

Default for the first time in its history should be a motivating factor, jose. you would have thought that would be the motivating factor for the last several months, but it's not been. i have never seen two sides dug in as much as they are now. this should be a relatively easy deal to cut. should be. mccarthy is insisting on before this call for work requirements was insisting on budget caps, pretty standard ask in any negotiation. they are insisting on reforms, something that republicans and democrats agree on. and a few other things. but this should be easy. it's not been. both sides are pr...