things were developing. that default was not an honest. and mccarthy even had said that it would be, quote, possible to get a deal by the end of the week, last week. this past week. signs of renewed discourse bill back out yesterday when republican aides paused the discussion saying that it was, quote, not productive. democrats and republicans remain far apart a number of issues including spending cuts and work requirements for federal mccarthy said is a red line for him. talks between congressional republicans and the white house have yet to resume. yesterday mccarthy made his disadvantage faction public, reading, 12. president biden doesn t think that there is a think oh-dollar saving to be found in the federal budget. he would rather be the first president in history to default on the debt rather than upsetting the radical socialist calling the shots for democrats right now. mccarthy s three conveniently of re-norms the fact that republicans nor democrats under a presi
not default in 11 days when the u.s. government runs out of money and is unable to pay its bills. we have team coverage of all of these new developments. phil mattingly is in japan at the g7 summit. let s begin with melanie in washington, d.c. help us understand where things stand. is the president optimistic? reporter: what i would say is the talks have not blown up completely yet but they are hanging by a thread. after a weekend of rejected offers, installed talks, the negotiators were really looking for a much-needed reset and they may have gotten it in that phone call today between speaker mccarthy and president biden. they talked a little bit about biden s trip but most importantly they agreed to meet one on one tomorrow, while staff will resume negotiations later tonight. here s a little bit more about what mccarthy said. i believe it was a productive phone call. so at the end of the phone call what we agreed to do is we re going to have patrick mchenry get back tog
i feel so emotionally ill prepared for the a i future, and even the conversation about the a.i.. it really makes me feel like a luddite in the original sense of that term, which was, like a bunch of people that went with sledgehammers to factories and started breaking them. we were like, over our dead bodies we you or places and recognize us. yeah, a horse and buggy just got passed by a ferrari on the highway. anyway, welcome to our lives. my friend, have a good weekend. have a good show. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. this is the video that former trump attorney rudy giuliani called the smoking gun in the 2020 election. mr. giuliani claimed these georgia election workers in fulton county were stuffing ballots into suitcases, and passing around usb ports like they were sneaking, quote, vials of heroin or cocaine. mr. giuliani said this illegal activity was obvious to anyone. it turned out that was all a lie. the workers in this video we re putting ballo
doctor is a professor at ufc san francisco s collaborative research group. inventing new standards and reproductive, health a professor at advancing new standards of reproductive health. the author of no real choice, how culture and politics matter for reproductive autonomy. robbyn marty is the operations west alabama woman. center also the author of the new handbook for a post-roe america. i will discuss the latest on the debt ceiling standoff with democratic senator, chris coons of delaware. he says that defaulting would have a quote, catastrophic effect on the country and must be taken off the table. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning, it s saturday may 20th, as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after just one bat election cycle, the gop would have regrouped and reassess its shortcomings so it could rebound. but it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significan
2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham released his findings yesterday, a 300-page report. and in it, durham, who was first appointed by that attorney general william barr in 2019, accuses the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells, as many republicans had long claimed he would. durham found no evidence the justice department and the fbi conspired in a deep state plot to investigate trump s ties to russia in 2016. in addition, durham did not recommend any wholesale changes at the fbi. the special counsel also appears to relitigate two of the cases he lost that went to trial, in which he brought criminal charges. the durham report has been contradicted by two of the reports, including one released in 2020 by the republican-led senate intelligence committee. the committee s report as well as one from the justice department watchdog found the fbi s investigation with some laws but warranted. and said the trump campaign closed a counter inte