not a completely unprecedented position for the minority party to say the party in charge should vote by themselves but unprecedented to say that the minority will filibuster the attempt to do that. democrats in the minority made republicans raise the debt limit on their own but didn t filler buster and that s what chuck schumer, the democratic leader is demanding now. the party leaders have what we believe is a tentative agreement to do a short term extension, a short term increase i should say in the debt limit through december. that would defer a catastrophic economic calamity on the doomsday the treasury set but details are being worked out. the devil is in the details and if things go well, it would be announced as early as tonight. my colleague garrett haake says a holdup here is they need technical details from the treasury department how much money the government will need to stay open until december and there are other fine print letters if two parties agree,
to get out of the way and let the democrats vote to increase the debt ceiling to pay for things that republicans also voted for, things like expanding broadband, things like helping small businesses in the middle of a pandemic. they said they wanted to do those things. they go back home to their constituents and beat their chests and say we helped you in this way. but when it comes time to pay for it, they re awol. we will do it, but giving us another two months, is it better than going over the waterfall on october 18th? yeah, but it still keeps a cloud over the american economy. we ve been watching some of what s been happening on the senate floor, and my colleague garrett haake reports that he s seen maybe a half dozen democrats kind of huddled around senator schumer at various points, you have to think talking through some of the ins and outs on this. i have to imagine you re on a group chat or two with your democratic colleagues. what are you hearing from them? you said there mi
essentially settling the crisis as gerald ford did in the spring of 1975 after saigon fell. all right. michael beschloss, former congresswoman donna edwards, thank you both very much for coming to the sunday show. joining me now retired u.s. army captain dan bershinsky severely injured in 2009, and wrote this op-ed in the washington post. i fought and bled in afghanistan and i still think america is right to accept defeat. captain, thank you so much for coming to the sunday show. i saw you on with my colleague garrett haake and was completely just moved and blown away by what you had to say. why do you think, as a veteran of the afghanistan war, why do you think that the president made the right decision? well, i think the messiness of this withdrawal is just one other unfortunate data point that indicates that our
20-year-long effort in afghanistan was ultimately pointless. if you want a softer spin on it, our 20-year effort in afghanistan has achieved everything it possibly could. and any further time spent or resources spent in afghanistan were not going to return any significant improvements. so it was time to end it. in that interview with garrett haake, you talked about a meeting or you were seated next to then vice-president biden. talk about that, the conversation you had with him then. yeah, so, in 2010 i was in the thick of doing several years worth of physical therapy after being wounded in afghanistan. and one day while doing physical therapy, therapists were walking around and said, hey, someone important from the white house, we can t say who, is going to stop by and cook dinner with wounded patients. anyone who wants to attend is welcome.
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