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chris jansing picks up our coverage right now. good day, i'm chris jansing in new york city. happy memorial day. and welcome to a special edition of chris jansing reports. the agreement on the debt limit is not done but is done but the fight's not finished. the white house and the speaker's office now in an 11th hour push to pick up every last vote in congress, trying to make sure their big deal doesn't go bust, but today is also about putting politics aside and honoring the men and women who have fought and died for this country. you might have seen the sombering images out of arl...

Untransparent way. i've been reading the language, i'm asking questions when i'm done with this, i'm going to get on a briefing with john podesta. i sort of feel, i think i feel the way a lot of members do. i feel torn. i feel like we are being held hostage. we should be in regular order. we should never be in this position again. and yet i cannot will be rubber stamped. >> so let me ask you about the couple of the specifics on things you just touched on. one specific part of the deal and something many democrats had said was a nonstarter is changing rules for snap recipients. the age of peopl...

>> can't say that i've read anything negative in it whatsoever. the calculation i think for everybody is simply is it enough. >> i want to bring in nbc's senior national political reporter, sahil, and kelly o'donnell. sahil, let's start on capitol hill. you've got several house republicans either criticizing the deal or saying outright they're not going to vote for it. where does that leave kevin mccarthy? how many votes can he afford to lose? >> well, first, there's no magic number for speaker mccarthy in terms of votes he needs because house democrats also get a vote here and a big number of...

Today where they have to go through a whole lot of red tape. so there are a few things in this bill but ultimately, that's why it deserves a good hard look. and the real answer here is how do we make sure we can get that gavel out of mccarthy's hand so he is not in the decision seat in the future to make these types of compromises. >> if you were a professional gambler, do you think this is going to go through? >> i think it probably will. mccarthy overplayed his hand. if you look at where we started out, the republican bill would have kicked 600,000 americans off. it would have slashed vetera...