up and testify in front of some of these congressional committees. which committees, when that might happen, i can t say. this tends to be what happens when investigations go on of the white house. they have to cooperate at least a little bit. i think that, you know, from a messaging standpoint for the white house, they see this as a side show. the more they engage politically speaking, the more they think they have to lose. if they can sort of ignore it as much as possible and sort of call republicans, you know, outliers for doing this, then they can try to focus on the issues they care most about. pivoting to the nation s debt ceiling. the united states hitting it just a few days ago. speaker kevin mccarthy agreed to a meeting at the white house to discuss this with president biden. the white house says they are not negotiating on spending cuts, which republicans want in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. where do you see room for a deal here? there s lots of room for a deal.
yes, i am looking at, you senators manchin and sinema. let s look at the house. and pc news has adjusted its house estimate, projecting, let me say that again, projecting that republicans could take a 219 seat majority. with the margin of error of plus or minus four seats. that s important to te, it really means we could be looking at this and estimate folks, an estimate, plus or minus four. with 20 races left a, call republicans need to win just seven of them to get to their magic number. democrats, they need 14. that is a long shot, but still a narrow path to the majority. basically, it is possible. when we look at the state level, it s safe to say democracy has prevailed in this election. every election denying candidate running for secretary of state in a battleground state lost. crucially, that means none of them will be overseeing our elections in 2024. after a mid term that through in the face of decades of precedent after young, brothers
today.be we ve been on some of these special coverage days before. we live in a world where things are treated as impossible and then obvious, with almost no processing inos between, particularly with the hot takes in washington and sometimes online. many people said this isn t happening, the mueller report, whatever it did, did not close the circle, and we re getting into 2020 and the debates have begun. all of a sten, facts, whistle-blowers, evidence piles up and the congress gets to thir point today, fool house floor vote, these are the rules, these are the rights of the president. and it would appear i say this as a reporter watching it, it would appear the house saying, mr. president, get ready, you are about to be impeached. it s fascinating. it s a fundamental feature oft histor and reality that most of life is like an iceberg. we see part of it but there s a huge amount we don t see.
today throughig next week you he house investigators, house democrats, requesting interviews with the nsc legal adviser, the chief of extra of to mick mulvaney. it s not clear, ari, if any of those people will show up. but house investigators want to get their testimony to really put the pieces together. morrison, we know, based in large part on the testimony of bill taylor who appeared if not this past weekend, but the weekend before that, had misgives abomi misgivmi misgivings about the phone call between president trump and president zelensky. but what s so interesting about this, witness after witness is offering these investigators different chapters of the same narrative, that president trump deputized his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, gordon sondland, ambassador to the eu, rick perry, energy secretary, and to some degree, mick mulvaney and kurt volker, to run this pressure campaign outside of the normal state department channels. and when career officials, respected career o
even before publicg hearings, d the unity of trump s defense in the republican caucus. heidi przybyla, you do a back of the envelope calculation, heidi, and one of the things we see is no republicans who are still members of the party, there s one who left the party over this, an independent, mr. amash, but no current members of the housere republican caucus crossg over. by contrast, while democrats widely and strongly obtained to the nature of the attacks and investigation of president clinton and their view of whether those were impeachable offences however objectionable the conduct was, 31 democrats backed the actual initial probe. what does it tell you that the president s party is living in its own bubble now? i can tell you, ari, based on my reporting which includes