Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130820:19:10:00
The democrats are willing to increase the debt ceiling without anything else whatsoever. the republicans wanted trillions of dollars in spending cuts in order to increase the debt ceiling. they saw that as their point of leverage. that's where this all started. the republicans would say that the sequestration idea, that was actually the administration's idea. but the bottom line was that if it were up to the administration, they would have raised the debt ceiling without any preconditions, which is what they want to do right now. that's the problem that the two sides have right now. the admini...