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billions of dollars you can burn a lot of it to turns out. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i odmean, listen, between th two of us, buddy, one of us tweets a lot less than the other person. i like to tweet. i m a poster to my veins. but t if i may i think i have a little more self-awareness than elon musk. a little bit. okay, okay. it sy, cross talk so we can t really get into it. oh, i can t believe you re not agreeing. i support the self-awareness and certainly the conversation. thank you as always. and thank you for joining us this evening. so summer plans they re often up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this date in pen june 1test. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an importantan day, and, m, it is really coming up, really around the corner. there was some hope the debt ceiling deadline couldth be pusd off through financial hocus-pocus, bu ....
It is really coming up, really around the corner. there was some hope the debt ceiling deadline couldth be pusd off through financial hocus-pocus, but no such luck. today treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that, yep, june 1st or we all go over the cliff. and yes, today is may 16th. and if you re the type of person who likes to do math in your head, you may look at those two dates and say to yourself, oh, my gosh, congress only has 16 days tos get this all sorted o, but you would be wrong because these are the days that the house is actually in session this month, and these are the days that the senate is in session thise month, which mea unless that change is some time soon, unless someone calls an audible on those congressional recesses, well then the house is senate have somewhere between six to sevenav working days to hammer this all out. so six or seven days, not a ton ....