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here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour, president biden today will sign the debt ceiling bill into law. averting a disastrous default two days before that deadline. the president is using his first oval office address to praise the bipartisan agreement, and stressed its importance. >> it was critical to reach the agreement. and it's very good news for american people. no one got everything they wanted. the american people got what they needed. we averted an economic crisis, an economic collapse. in this debate, i refused to put what was responsi...

There's no bigger bully pit the oval office. and him showing strength and leadership. that is again, a thing, if you look at the issues that the president, that voters bring up about the president. you know, i'm not breaking news here, they bring up his age, we've all talked about it on the air. i think there's very few things that counter that idea, that the president is too old, then to show him in a position of strong leadership. and using that and showing that he is a strong leader, able to bring people together, to me that undermines one of his, one of his top vulnerabilities going into r...

Pockets for you. the white working class is picking his pockets for a racist white president. the irony is they ain't getting no benefit from what he's doing. they have what they call the psychological wave of whiteness, but other than that, at least you're not a black person, there's no physical payoff or variable socioeconomic benefit. so the bully pit of donald trump devastated this country again. >> let's look how a series of republicans responded to these tweets. here's mick mulvaney, the president's acting chief of staff. >> you know this is a majority black district and when the preside...

Separating these in two different things. i think it's important to acknowledge the work that's happened with the criminal justice reform and as the president would argue the state of the acadeeconomy is good for americans. and we talk about the numbers, the rise in hate crimes is not good for african-americans. nothing good about the black worshippers killed first in charleston and later on the attempt in kentucky and jewish worshippers killed in pittsburgh. what we see is anti-immigrant, anti-refugee zenophobic language the president himself has been using from the bully pit of his white hou...

Next. and the fact the president is using his bully pit to basically create questions on our electoral system is something we have to further discuss, because at the end of day every single vote should count. that's what creates a strong electoral system, and making sure the integrity of the voter fields is still sacrosanct. >> ari, thank you for joining us live from florida. are you there for the duration or when the case moves up to the united states supreme court, i guess you'll go up to washington and follow it there. >> we'll go wherever the case takes us, lawrence. >> ari melber, thank y...