got sworn in, it was the longest shut down in history. it might be worse this time around. all right well congresswoman ilhan omar, thank you very much for coming in. i will ask one of your republican colleagues about this very thing, right now. thank you so much for your time. i want to bring in republican congressman, brian williams. congratulations, part of brandon williams. congratulations to you sir on your new position representing new york s 22nd district. let s pick up with you where i left off with congresswoman omar. the washington post is reporting that republicans that they filed a plan to not lift the nation s debt ceiling without major spending cuts from the biden administration. congressman, are you willing to let the country face defaults on its loans to get the spending cuts? tsi don t think anybody s ever really succeeded in using the debt limit as you know leverage including you know threatening to shut down the government. i think really, it is a clock that ticks
i didn t expect to wake up yesterday to the news that the senator from the 22nd district had overnight accused me, by name, of grooming and sexualizing children in an email, fundraising for herself. so, i sat on it for a while, wondering why me. and then i realized because i am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. because you can t claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of quote, rights if another parent is standing up to say no. i want every child in this state to feel seen and heard not marginalized targeted because they re not straight, white and christian. we cannot let hateful people tell you otherwise, to scapegoat and deflect from the fact that they are not doing anything to fix the real issues that impact
they certainty would like to get it up to 219, 220, even 221. there are some opportunities for them to grow it too as there are some opportunities for democrats to make it uncomfortable for republicans. but certainly it is uncalled right now, but the path to 218 is clear for republicans. and so on california specifically from 53% to two-thirds of the votes counteds as of, you know, one week plus one into this, do you have any idea of how long this process is going to continue, the counting of the votes in california? yeah, it will continue for a while. and we got word, we ve been keeping an eye on the 22nd district, apparently this one will be extra slow in the central valley. you can see they are up to 40% in right there. so i think to get to all of the votes tabulated in all of these california districts, you are still you know, we ll still be talking about it next week i expect. but in terms of having a sense where some of these key races
republican friendly and he was able to take the lead, and if anything happens again tonight, like that, he will be able to build on the lead. those are six right now. democrats will have to find a way to win at least one of those and there are a bunch of other question marks on the map here too for democrats. and democrats are closer than folks thought and the nbc news estimate has republicans landing at 219 seats, plus or minus 4, that would be very, very narrow majority. but for the democrats to actually get to 218 right now, they pretty much have to pull a rabbit oust hat. when are we going to know who has control of the house? as we say, we may get clarity in the two arizona races tonight, because we re expecting, especially in the first district, expecting more votes there, and these california districts, it is just wide variants here, again, i ll give you an example, the 22nd district, central valley of california, and we don t even have 40% of the vote counted yet here. a re
a net gain, in what is a red seat now. what does that do to the map in terms of overall house control here. right now, republicans will have at least 212 seats, and democrats will have at least 206 seats. remember you need 218 for a majority. on this list now, you can see, there are 17 outstanding democrat versus republican races that nbc news has not called. so of those 17, republicans need six. and they ll have a majority. of those 17, democrats need a dozen. they need 12 to get to a majority. the trouble democrats face right now as you can see with the oregon call here, if republicans need six more to get to 218, you can see at least six where they re leading and where democrats are going to need something kind of surprising to happen here to catch. for instance, new york s 22nd district, still some votes to come. but that s a 4,000 vote lead for the republican there. that could be difficult for democrats to overcome. california s 45th district, michelle steel, leading by more