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Allow a vote on this by october 18th, the economic consequences would be massive and global. the u.s. treasury secretary now says that it alone, just hitting that debt ceiling would throw the country into a whole new recession, just on those grounds alone, just for that debt ceiling issue. today, democratic senate leader chuck schumer scheduled a vote to try to pay those bills to raise the debt ceiling. he essentially dared republicans to block that vote. i mean, and the stakes couldn't be higher. the country is 12 days away from defaulting on its debt and causing global economic calamity. are...

0 any other live interview i've had with. i'm really excited to talk to him,. thanks at-home for joining us this, our happy to be. back senator bernie sanders will be live tonight. he will be here in just a few minutes. i do want to address just a quick quick personal matter here before we go on to the news, if you will indulge me for just a second. a couple of months ago susan and i went to a minor league baseball game. i sat on the aisle. she sat to my left. our team won. it was a fantastic game. i bought like all the swag, i ate all the hot dogs, it was a great time. minor league baseball, ...

There that jen psaki just made. one that the president and mitch mcconnell have not talked. this idea of a carve out to raise the debt creeling that would require a simply majority, that might be less of a point here with the wiggle room that the republican leader has granted chuck schumer to avoid addressing this debt ceiling issue that gets closer by the day. i want to go to bob nardelli on this, the former chrysler home depot ceo. i was mentioning about that back and forth and the confusion of the government to shut down and have the money in october, will it not have the money. clearly mar...

There is discussion internally today and it happened last week about lowering the filibuster threshold to 51 votes just to have a carve-out on the debt ceiling issue, itself. but to do that, you need support from all 50 democrats to agree to any changes to the senate rules. and of course, one of those senators, joe -- joe manchin, who along with kyrsten sinema have dug in, have opposed any changes to those filibuster rules along with a handful of others. today, though, manchin would not explicitly say if he opposes changing the senate's filibuster rules. only telling me earlier that we will no...

>> i implore them one more time not to play russian roulette with the american economy. >> we could prevent a catastrophic default with a simple majority vote tomorrow if republicans would just get out of the damn way. >> schumer pushing to schedule this vote tomorrow on the debt ceiling. your old boss, blake. your thoughts? >> well, that was some feisty language there. i mean, look, there's actually an interesting risk here for mitch mcconnell. mitch's whole game is just to obstruct, to try to stop anything from happening. he doesn't mind being hated. he doesn't mind being, you know, shamed. ...