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What i'm doing is working right now. so, why am i going to prioritize a whole bunch of other stuff? i think by the time he's running for reelection, he's going to have to make some promises that are forward-looking, not just backward. >> but peter baker, to that point, that was sort of the connection to the death ceiling, right? we got an economy that is working right now despite everyone's warnings about it. don't derailed us. >> yeah, he said republicans are threatening to hold it hostage, that was his term -- hostage. so you lay down a mark on that. he made it clear he does not play plan to...

The families of the victims. it's just awful. let's turn to the debt ceiling. the white house says they want congress to pass a clean debt ceiling increase. no negotiations with republicans at all. is that a mistake? >> i think it's a mistake because we have to negotiate. this is a democracy that we have. we have a two-party system, if you will. we should be able to talk and find out where our differences are. if they're irreconcilable, you have to move on from there and let the people make their decisions. using the debt ceiling and holding it hostage hasn't worked in the past. anyone wants...

Is some question whether that is even constitutional since the death may not be questioned under the 13th amendment and the 14th amendment. but they should not hold it hostage. the idea that they could exempt things that would be politically unhappy for them as just not bright. obviously, we don't want to stop medicare and social security funding. but to defund the border patrol, to defund the immigration service and to defund the faa, so the planes cannot fly, that is stupid and you know they want to regress the issue of spending with large. we can do that but we cannot do it with the full fa...

Right name anymore. the people with the biggest megaphones on the right. the marjorie taylor greens of the world seem to be able to exert the most control over the direction of the conference as a whole by honestly you could argue they're holding it hostage. >> well, you can argue that. but i think we have to get -- and i've told this to kevin on many occasions and i brought it up in front of our conference last week. you talk about all these things and they want to do a budget and create the appropriations bills. we'll deliver appropriations bills. that's not a problem. will we have the 218 v...

Debt ceiling and that very clearly republicans in the making all these noises about what they're going to do is they are going to hold it hostage like they did back in 2011 to get the cuts they wanted. if he cuts social security and medicare. my read of the election results is the narrow or the republican house margin is, the less likely they can make that threat, because they will have frontline members who know what to do it. but what is your read about what the odds are for big, nasty debt deficit fight. one of the results? >> i think you're 100 percent spot on. what do we see? i've talked ...