Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Manafort is turned his direction. One can only imagine what is going through manaforts mind, because if you believe the prosecution version of the case, gates knows all his secrets and is about to expose them to the jury. If you believe the defense version, gates is setting manafort up and framing him. Well have to see which version the jury believes. Ken, how long can we expect gates to be on stand and, number two, what is manaforts defense right now . They were really motoring through gates testimony. Generally this court wraps up at 5 30 but ive got to believe hell be back tomorrow on direct and then there will be a lengthy cross examination. The defense really rests on tarnishing gates. There was some devastating testimony before gates from Cindy Lapartyorta who made the understand that she had no idea that Paul Manafort had overseas accounts. He was supposed to disclose on his taxes. She prepared the taxes and
recipients, requiring proof of employment for recipients as old as 54, up from 49. but veterans, homeless and people in foster care are now exempt from those requirements. already signs of disapproval from hardliners on the right. i m not willing to vote this country into more debt. reporter: and the left. do they still have to worry about the progressive caucus and whether or not your caucus will support yes. yes, they have to worry. house did thats who have reservations about the compromise bill? talk to me. what would you tell them? i m not going to tell you. whos has the better deal, democrats or republicanses? it is a bipartisan deal. reporter: white house scrambling to make its case making more than 60 one-on-one calls to lawmakers so far. key message, focus on the programs republicans were trying to cut and what is not in the bill. for members of the progressive caucus, who voted if all of the signature legislation of this administration over the past c
position where we would not have the resources to continue to meet our commitments and we ve never reached that point before in this country. been in a position where we ve gone past the deadline and we can t this time. that s why we expect members of congress on a bipartisan basis to approve the responsible deal the president has struck this speaker that protects our core priorities and makes compromises and allows us to continue to grow in a economy that s created 12.7 million jobs over the last two years and where inflation is m coing down. we don t want to lose that momentum. that s essential over the next few days congress acts to lift the debt limit and approve the deal. mr. deputy secretary, thank you very much for joining us. sorry about the detour in the middle. coming up, texas attorney general was impeached and is now headed for a trial in the state
but here s the thing, here s what the president was able to do, when i talk about protecting the economic gains, we think about the 12.7 million jobs created in the last two years, this is what it s going to do, this budget agreement, protect that. you think about the 3.4% unemployment rate something we haven t seen in 54 years, you talk about protecting health care, what s discussed before was medicaid being cut, that was risking health care for 21 million americans, so we re protecting that. we re protecting veterans veterans affair, making sure they re getting the funding, defense funding. so there are things here that are critical and key to american families that they need. they need every day just to make sure they make ends meet. i understand there s a lot of complaining to do, but what is the white house s message to those progressive democrats who are hammering the white house who view this as a bad deal? so, look, we re happy to have a conversation. we are informing cer
49. but veterans, the homeless, and people who were in foster care are now exempt from those requirements. already, signs of disapproval from hard-liners on the right. i m not willing to vote this country into more debt. and the left. do they still have to worry about the progressive caucus, and whether or not your caucus will support? yes. yes they do? yes, they have to worry. the message to house democrats who have reservations about this compromised bill? talk to me. who got a better deal, democrats or republicans? it s a bipartisan deal. the white house scrambling to make its case. offering briefings and making more than 60 one-on-one calls to house democratic lawmakers so far. a key message, focus on the programs republicans were trying to cut, and what s not in the bill. for members of the progressive caucus who voted for all of the signature legislation of this administration over the past couple of years that has led to the creation of 12.7 million jobs