politicsnation. tonight lead, not there yet. right now, the economic free world is holding its breath. as washington appears to have a way out of this impasse over our debt ceiling. president biden and republican house speaker, kevin mccarthy, announcing last night that a tentative deal has been reached, that would allow both sides to claim a victory. with short term domestic spending curtailed in line with house republican demands, and economic crisis averted to the delight of democrats in the rest of the sensible world. but that looming june 5th deadline to raise the ceiling hasn t gone away. and the hurdles to passage remain inside of congress itself. house democrats are expected to jump on a call with the white house within the hour. we ll update you as soon as that cole wraps, as for speaker mccarthy, will he be able to satisfy the hard right flank of his caucus, ahead of wednesday s house vote? or after weeks of holding america hostage, will they intentionally drive t
disagreements it s a reminder of how much it would mean to reach out. that does it for me tonight, the rachel maddow show starts right now. i love that closing story. that was excellent, and you do not know this, but it is very much in keeping with the theme that i m going to be talking about this whole hour, so i know we didn t coordinate this, but this was we have a mind meld today. i will be looking forward to that. just a reminder of humanity even with disagreement which is sometimes hard to remember in this time. yeah, and it is the thing that most frustrates the people who want us to forget that for their own political purposes but it s the only way out, thanks, my friend. much appreciate it. well done. thanks at home for joining us. the capital of the great state of mississippi is jackson, of course. the airport in jackson, mississippi, is called jackson medgar wiley evers international airport. it is named for medgar evers, the civil rights leader. after he
thanks my friend much appreciated and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour it s really good to have the capital of the great state of mississippi is jackson. the airportpi of jackson, mississippi, is called jackson medger wily evers international airport. it s named for medger evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown vs. board of education in 1954 racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months, after brown v. board they named him the first ever field secretary of mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. in 1963 medger evers was murdered. he was shot in the back in his own driveway. he was only 37 years old. but now37 the jackson, mississippi, international airport is named for him. and just a
and this enormous support for impeachment, coming from his own party really suggests that there s an awful lot there that the public just didn t know about up until now. there is something there that push them, that motivated them. but at the same time, while i have a lot of respect for representative sheila jackson lee, her suggestion that maybe this is the beginning of the republicans showing some honor, and trying to hold folks accountable to a higher level of behavior in office, i question that. i am somewhat cynical that that is the case, because we ve also learned that it sort of came to ahead after the republicans became aware that paxton wanted to use three and a half million dollars worth of taxpayer dollars to pay off settlements. when he tried to report on his back behavior. so i think there s going to be a struggle on both sides. there s a lot of struggle in all of this, there is a lot to
americans have shared with the russians gets turned into a weapon against them. as you were saying, that description you were giving about the, you know, purchase of a baboon as a friendly pet only for it to rip off your face, i mean, yeah, isn t it the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? certainly it is. obviously russia is an important player in the world, and we do need to have relations with them, however, we have to be very clear about what we want. what is our policy? what are we trying to achieve? where are the red lines that we won t accept? as far as i know, this administration has not made those things clear. in fact, if you believe the reporting coming out of the white house, they ve talked about, you know, relieving sanctions and doing things to try to improve the relations with the russians. to me, it seems like the wrong time to do that. again, you re rewarding back behavior. john, great to have you on. than