disaster averted? after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. the president and the speaker make a deal to raise the debt ceiling. but the hardest part may lie ahead. convincing think parties to vote for it. plus, game on. he s been attacking me by moving left, so this is a different guy than 2016. ron desantis jumps into the 2024 race and levels his toughest attacks yet on donald trump. but will it be enough? rob desanctimonious and his poll numbers are dropping like a rock. and target in the cross-hairs. the retail giant is the latest battlefield for conservatives hoping to roll back lgbtq rights. welcome to inside politics sunday . i m abby phillip. they have a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a economic catastrophe. it took weeks of negotiations, no one on either side though is thrilled. but here is what we know about the deal this morning. it raises the debt ceiling for two years, it caps federal spending, also
but what is lacking is any implications for anyone but him. but he still makes it about being the victim and in your piece, he s the victim and your the victim and they re ak thatting us an that has worked for him in the past. the politics of grievance has been a very strong pull for former president trump. and honestly, you should have to look at who is around him. he s beingin abled by the republican party. kevin mccarthy going down to mar-a-lago a couple of weeks after the investigation, there is a permissive structure there is very much buoyed by who is in power in the republican party right now. and isaac, in the piece you quote ruth ben, a historian at new york university who specialized in looking at authoritarians and when she said when he lose office, they come back ten times worse. they never get less extreme. and they get more extreme. and january 6 was a profoundly
what we re hearing is information leaked the from the intelligence community, primarily from the barack obama administration apparatus, and so, to come to these kind of conclusions at this point, i think, is a little bit premature, to say the least. so representative trent franks, really casting a little bit of a doubt on the intelligence community, that russia was behind this k thatting, essentially taking a little bit of the same tone as president-elect donald trump when he said, look, they don t know that it s the russians, they don t know if it s the chinese, they don t know if it s a man in new jersey sitting on his bed. so i m curious to get your thoughts. we haven t seen the evidence. the public hasn t seen the evidence. why trust both the intelligence community, who have gotten things wrong in the past or the administration on this issue. yes, the intelligence community has gotten some things wrong in the past. but let s be clear. there s enough information out there from t