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>> credit "the new york times" for the compelling report. i'm not surprised that lawmaker would deny tensions with his top lieutenants. fundamental issue is simple. mccarthy knows he has to get this debt ceiling issue resolved, and it's a mechanism of how do you get there? do you introduce a budget first? do you talk directly with the white house? is that not the fundamental problem, is that he is stuck between a caucus that is going to demand major concessions and a white house that says, we're not going to negotiate >> that is a major issue, and he doesn't seem to be presented with alternati...

Lot of people thought possible. >> we are, but in debt ceiling issue could be catastrophic. we keep warning people, come june, if we end up defaulting, this will be economically disastrous. but what does that mean? folks at home, making dinner. >> the debt limit first for starters is not about any forward looking commitments or spend. >> it's about paying bills. >> paying bills that the united states government has committed to, and for more than 200 years, one of the bedrocks of the united states and the global financial system has been that the united states honors those obligations. even pu...

Or is there still a lot of fear there? >> i think two basic narratives. some are feeling good about this. they say inflation is coming down. we might hit the magical soft land ing. and then you talk to others who say the economy is reaccelerating. the fed might have to do even more and we may have an even more painful recession down the road. i think you can read this data either glass half full or glass half empty. >> i'm typically a glass half full person. the angle of the debt ceiling, how close is the fed watching that debacle and what will they do in the months ahead we're trying to see w...

Shift. monica lewinsky herself describes herself as patient zero for internet shaming. she'd talk about being bullied, what that experience was like, and the way she was treated has not aged well. in many ways, it is a -- from the me-too movement, as you say, so many people have changed their perspective about how they viewed that moment, how he viewed her and how they treated here. >> peter, i wonder, it will take some outside event to shift the fork in the road, but i don't know how it worked. >> we had 9/11, and it changed our politics for about a year or so, but i don't know what would be ...

Achieve just by the power of their own argument. or their own good ideas. so, i mean, we are going to have to meet our obligations, the debt ceiling issue is really about whether or not we will pay the bills that we have already accumulated, what republicans are saying is we are willing to risk the credit worthiness, the integrity of the american government and the american economy in order to exact a price from democrats, because they don't have the confidence in their own arguments, if they want to talk about tax policy in this country, go to the ways and means committee and they chair the w...