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it's that time of year when yearbooks come out and everyone gets to pour over pictures of their classmates and quietly judge their haircuts and senior quotes. you get to look back and remember when certain classmates seem so nbt and others seem so awkward and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style. who could have known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington this week. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy posing with almost all of his living predecessors....

Have already told the president to spend. and so he has every authority to say, congress, you told me to spend this money, i'm not going to default on america's debts. we're a patriotic nation. it's patriotic to pay our bills, and i'm going to pay the bills. let them sue. let them sue and take it to the court. last time they did these shenanigans the stock market dropped 15% in 2011. >> but they thought it was a hostage worth taking. in the eyes of mitch mcconnell they thought it was all worth it. >> because you were so eloquent in your history, when president clinton stood up for bad politics...

Some. but that's not my metaphor, it's the metaphor of republicans themselves. senator mcconnell said two years ago the global economy was a hostage worth taking. other republicans said on the record they weral to blow up the economy and use that as leverage to get what they want. i was trying to describe the republican position of give us we're going to give you demands. give us what you want or we're going to try to cause america to default for the first time ever and do great damage to our economy. i don't know how else you want to describe their position. that is essentially what it is and...

Very wealthy. not everything he wanted, but quite a lot. he won on the debt ceiling question. the they did lift it. and i don't think they'll ever do that again unless they completely lose their minds. that is no longer a hostage worth taking. and now we'll see what they do on the sequester. i look with faith to the house progressive caucus that any deal that is reached does not include bad cuts. and i think there's still a little danger ahead. but the president has a much stronger hand than he's had since the beginning of his first term. >> congresswoman, can he use that stronger hand to push...