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>> i mean, all due respect, sir, you and your fellow democrats were very ginger and very polite when it came to justice ruth bader ginsburg and not pushing her to retire when you had a democratic majority in the senate. how did that work out for roe v. wade? >> well, i can tell you that you can play these out and try to guess what the supreme court opinions resulting from it will be. the bottom line is, though, we have in the past had members of the senate, i can think of a handful as i'm sitting here, democrats and republicans who have been absent because of medical conditions for lengthy per...

Look like. frankly, the full faith and credit of the united states is the bedrock on which the financial am is built and look, the u.s. dollar could -- its possible is the global reserve currency and people can choose to invest in the united kingdom or the european union rather than the united states. i'm not sure what the chairman or the solution could look like in the coming week, but there better be a solution. >> do you think house republicans would consider a temporary extension on the debt ceiling so president biden and speaker mccarthy have more time to hammer out some s deal? >> speake...

Himes that it is a national security threat not solving this problem? >> i think if the president fails to negotiate with congress and has continued out of control spending that threatens our economy that it is a national security threat. he has the ability to sit down and do that and for us to come to a deal and agreement. that is what the american public wants and what i think they'll require from congress and the president. i think he needs to get on with it. >> the chairman and ranking democrat on the house select committee on intelligence, congressman mike turner of ohio and congressman j...

American public wants washington to rein in spending and the president needs to make some concessions. >> do you agree, congressman himes, that it's a national security threat not solving this problem? >> i think if the president fails to negotiate with congress and continues out of control spending that threatens our economy, then it is a national security threat. he has the ability to sit down and do that and for us to come to a deal and agreement and that's what the american public wants and that's what they'll require from the president and he needs to get on with it. >> the chairman and t...

Instability here and around the globe, but we have, you know, we don't like to get there. really, congress should just act now. let's get past this. why even cause in this period where we have had tremendous success in our recovery from the pandemic-induced recession, where we have -- we have inflation that is too high, but which is easing. our economy is on the right path. inflation is easing. we see the unemployment is the lowest it's been in 50 years, and th aea landing. we have threats going on with ukraine. congress should just raise the debt ceiling right now so we can continue on this p...