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Is essentially daring republicans to vote no, to really send, you know -- this would be congress creating sort of an economic crisis. really, this is about democrats getting republicans on the record. >> it's an extremely high stakes game of chicken. it's about blame and trying to create a political situation where republicans take blame for this. if, in fact, we get to this point. democrats did help republicans raise the debt ceiling when republicans were in control of congress. it's been republicans who really have used this as a leverage point. pau a lot of americans, as christine clearly e...

Reconciliation would be dead. rachel bay, let me start with you. with kurt can schrader laying down the line. madam speaker, you promised us us a vote one week from today or else. the or else is attached to it. >> and senator kyrsten sinema said this the house delays its september 27th vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan or the vote fails, she won't be backing a reconciliation bill. it's saying we are ready to tank the biden agenda if we don't get our way. >> last week we saw progressives come out and say if you have this vote, we'll see against it. we want to see the $3.5 trillion bill...

You know, i think it was three and three, three republicans, three democrats. >> that's right. >> again, they're playing -- the party is the one that assigns the people a role, but they're playing this official role in the county. we remember, right, two of the republicans voted not to certify the results, and donald trump called to congratulate them. they ended up backing down. then it went up to the state board of elections i think, and, again, there were several different republicans i think who voted against certifying the results and one who did who i think subsequently got threatened and...

Republicans voted not to certify the results. and donald trump called to congratulate them, they backed down, and then it went to the state board of election, and again there are several republicans who voted against certifying the results and one who did, who subsequently got threatened. i remember thinking, i didn't think about the role, the leverage point, the kind of our comedian leverage point that these random party officials are in making sure an election gets certified. i want to give you another example. next are endless guns, and the parties actually nominate the poll workers. so the...

Inform this process. obviously, conditions on the ground are far different when august 31st deadline lisette. and personally as someone who served alongside local staff at embassies overseas, i think it would do an incredible disservice, both to those f afghan but also around the world for local staff who work alongside americans. we cannot and should not abandon them. >> it is interesting because former pentagon chief of staff and also an essay counterterrorism director and we had this to say and then i will get your response if i can on the other side, watch. >> now what you have is a taliba...