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revolutionary war, but we are. good to be you with. i'm katy tur. america has been arguing about it for its existence entirely, the first debt racked up during the revolutionary war in 1776 when george washington borrowed $7 a million, a ton for that time, to pay for it. 247 years, and now $31.4 trillion later, we have hit our self-imposed limit. again, so what does that mean exactly? house republicans are promising a political showdown in washington, and it also means the beginning of what the treasury department calls extraordinary measures to stave off default. we will explain wha...

Voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 theyll be the largest segment of the american electorate. Theyre not part of this trend. White millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. The children. Heather mcghee, fernand amandi. Well be right back here on saturday after joy reids bonus hour. Well be here, if my voice makes it. Be sure to tune in for that. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything . Ill go right to your office and steal them. They sell them at my bodega. I think theyre illeg...

Value, lose its credibility, and then the government might have to start drawing from, for example, social security payments, food stamp programs, medicare, and we haven't seen that happen before, there are 78 times since 1960 that congress has either passed to resolve by extending, or suspending the debt limit, which as a reminder is a cap on how much the government can borrow to pay bills that it has already racked up. it is separate from spending from the perspective that this has nothing to do with whether or not money goes to defense or to infrastructure, it's already been spent, it's now...

The fact of this meeting. took more than a year to get it out. not forthcoming about the substance. the statement saturday said all about adoption. and three, haven't been forthcoming on the attendance of that meeting. learning today, jonathan, who was there. >> so how big was this room? at this point, the white house and the trump allies are confronted with a narrative that seems to shift every single day. and as just indicated, this is only undermine their credibility. this shifted from, oh, it's adoption. to, oh, it doesn't mean much. to, okay, yes. there was suggestion of help from the rus...

He told if a.p. today, quote, she will not get my vote, period. millions of us vote for president. but it's really only the 538 people who are the members of the electoral college who ratify that choice and actually pick the president. the electoral college will cast its votes after the election on december 19. we expect them to be bound by the way their states voted, but expectations -- i mean, it is unusual, it is exceedingly rare for an elector not to vote the way his or her state voted but technically, there's nothing in the constitution that would block that. and in fact, he says he's per...