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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 ....
one of us tweets a lot then the other person. i like to three. i m a poster from my veins. to my cellular level, i love to post. and i am s health but, if i may. i think i ve a little more self awareness. then elon musk. a little bit. okay. okay. it is crosstalk, so we can t really get into it. 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. and thank you so often up in the air. but you can go ahead and you can circle the state in pen. june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal where the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it is an important day. and man, it is really coming up. it is really around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus. but no such luck. today, treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that yes, i, or we all go over the cliff. ....
air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you for joining us this. evening so often plans are up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this state in pan, june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an important day, and man it is really coming, up really, around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus, but no such luck. today said treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that it was june 1st or we ll go over the cliff. and yes, today is may 16th. and after the type of person who likes to do math in your head, you may look at those two days and say oh no commerce congress only has 15 days to get this sorted out. but he would be wrong. because these are the ....
Up during both the trump and biden presidencies. today, president biden officially canceled part of his overseas trip this week in order to deal with this. he has also dispatched two of his top aides to negotiate directly with aids to speaker mccarthy and to figure out an end to this crisis. but what exactly does that mean? after all, the white house has said for months now, we will not negotiate over the debt ceiling. and yet, democratic leaders are now saying that the only way out of this crisis is an agreement with bipartisan support in both houses of congress. which sounds a lot like negotiations over the debt ceiling. if that is the case, how does this all end? and what do democrats get out of it? joining us now for his very first television interview since assuming the job of white house communications director is ....
But no such luck. today, treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that yes, i, 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 your self, congress only had 16 days to get this all sorted out. 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 this month. which means, unless that changes sometime soon, unless someone calls an audible on those congressional recesses, we ll, then, the house and senate have somewhere between 6 to 7 working days to hammer this all out. so, six or seven days. not a ton of time. now, panic about that deadline. it does not seem to have set in yet, strangely. not in washington, not on wall ....