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What's known as reconciliation, so just with democratic votes. leader schumer and house speaker pelosi say they won't do that. are you ruling out raising the debt ceiling with only democratic votes through reconciliation? >> the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, is playing games with a loaded weapon here. he's demanded the filibuster be applied to the debt ceiling. it may be the first time in history that's happened, and we have been warned by not only the treasury secretary but by all the financiers across america this would be deadly to our economy. it would cost us 6 million...

Symptoms, do not get any severe outcome, certainly can transmit it to others. and others may be people who would get a severe outcome. so there's a lot of reasons that people may not have really assimilated in their mind why it's important to do that. but there are very good reasons to do that. >> dr. fauci, thank you for coming on. >> good to be with you, kate. thank you for having me. >> thank you. coming up for us, chuck schumer is tightening the screws to try to get republicans to go along with democrats to recognize the debt ceiling as, let's be honest, they've all done many times befor...

History that's happened, and we have been warned by not only the treasury secretary but by all the financiers across america this would be deadly to our economy. it would cost us 6 million jobs. why? what schumer said to mcconnell is, if you're not going to lead, if you're not going to follow, get the hell out of the way. let the democrats accept the political responsibility of extending the debt ceiling and mcconnell said no. he is doing it at the expense of this economy. we'll get this done and in a responsible way and face this as soon as we return next week. >> so yes or no. can you guaran...

There is a way to fast track that. you and i last hour were talking about what senate majority leader chuck schumer said, which is there's an easy way to do this and a hard way to do this. right now they're moving forward on what schumer would call the hard way to do it, the slower way of doing it. the clock has started, 30 hours of debate, then we're going to see another procedural vote. at any time, all 100 senators could come together and say that they've decided on a quicker process to move forward on many of these amendments that are still up in the air, and that could go the expedited ro...

Pilots figuring out where the plane will land. i tried to figure out a way to say the bill is not dead. it is not dead. and as you know as well as anyone else, there is a problem with the clock ticking up. it will take a week or two to get to the process before getting to the budget bill. what schumer intends to do before the senate heads to recess. if i were a senate staffer, i would be concerned about my vacation plans for the end of august. >> and john, we have john tester in the thick of the bipartisan negotiations said tonight he expects a deal tomorrow morning.