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Chinese banks, over american citizens, and quote. here's the thing. none of this is new. republicans tried this trick with president obama when they first took the debt ceiling hostage. the treasury warned then and treasury secretary janet yellen says today, congress cannot allow this to happen. you see, the victim of breaching the debt ceiling isn't congressional democrats. it's not joe biden. it's you. and me, and everyone in america, and possibly the global economy. and to threaten it today is, in fact, much more dangerous than it was back when barack obama was president, back when inflatio...

Not only should we be having but one that president biden is absolutely willing to have. he has presided over 1. 7 trillion in deficit reduction he considered fiscal redacted and be a top priority but that is about plans going forward. how we raise the revenues and the structure of the spending. what we plan to do in the future. as you have said many times tonight, but in my view it can't be repeated enough, when you're talking about the debt ceiling, raising the debt ceiling, you're talking about meeting, spending, obligations, that congress and the president have already agreed to. this is e...

85 person majority in the house but it is a hard job under any circumstance. but to me, whether or not you think those particular giveaways are important or not, the most important thing about this is republicans, with the rebel holdouts planted the flag for fiscal responsibility. and made the argument that we are going to be fiscally responsible. and i hope they stick to that flag and carried on through. talking about things like 87000 irs agent is a very unifying thing. voters of every stripe care about that thing. if they could use this, everyone in washington but is a debacle, i thought wa...

Yeses. i don't know whether he is going to be speaker or not. i'm not suggesting one way or the other. but he has his work cut out for him. the people around him. the people around kevin mccarthy, say he is going to the floor on january 3rd to stand for the speaker vote. something he did not do in 2015, when his speaker bid was derailed. but there has to be a massive sea change in the next couple of weeks, and i'm not saying it's not possible but there has to be a massive sea change for mccarthy to get those votes he needs, 218, the majority of those present and voting, so if there are people ...

Details of our deliberations, i will just say there are multiple reasons that this problem has taken us a long time to figure out. obviously, the constitution says that the congress cannot declare people guilty of crimes. that's the bill or closs. it's up to the courts to adjudicate guilt and innocence at the same time. we are an investigative body of the congress. we may have come upon evidence that may not otherwise be available. that's why we need to complete our deliberations about -- everybody will know soon enough when we render our final reporting recommendation. >> article one's bigges...