week like that? i think the downing week like that? i think the downing street week like that? i think the downing street party, i week like that? i think the downing street party, the | downing street party, the christmas party of 2020 has cut through, and voters were clearly out to deliver a bloody nose. but the lib dem party is often known as the party of the none of the above. what is the party for beyond a party of protest, where does politics go from here? i protest, where does politics go from here? from here? i think it s really interesting, from here? i think it s really interesting, because - from here? i think it s really interesting, because the i from here? i think it s really. interesting, because the voters absolutely come in the run up to 2010, were a none of the above party in lots of ways. an they were of a people could make if they didn t like the conservatives through the 1990s and early 2000, if you deny the conservatives but did not like labour you could vo
manchin and bernie sanders in a room together to hash out their differences would result in homicide. boy, we have to check his humor. is he okay? wellness check. senate majority leader chuck schumer isn t helping. he ripped republicans colleagues moments after a compromise vote to raise the debt ceiling. senator manchin was visibly irritated and not the only one. what chuck schumer did this week is going to make december 3rd a much deeper crisis. a sign of his immaturity and sign of his own concern about his own left. we have to be able to work together. while i completely understand president schumer s deep frustration. thanks for the heads up who accidentally called schumer the president. he joked about it after with chris wallace. maybe chuck schumer is the president. maybe that s one of the things we ll find out here.
delayed. police in texas say a muslim american soldier confessed to plotting an attack on ft. hood just two years after a muslim officer shot to death 13 people on that same base. tropical storm don could hit the south texas coast tonight and drought-stricken farmers are welcoming the prospect of up to 7 inches of rain. we begin with that sobering reality check on the debt crisis and just how daunting the challenge has become. in less than four days, the federal government could run out of money and default on its bills. but on capitol hill, the process has taken a huge step back. house speaker john boehner abruptly delayed a vote on his debt plan because of a revolt within his own party. joe johns is in washington with more on the political battle and ali velshi in new york waiting to see how the markets will react. ali, let s start with you. the new gdp number that just came out moments ago. reporter: this is going to add a whole new wrinkle. we have seen futures tank
as many votes as the republican speaker needed, and the big passes 260 to 167. just before the vote, speaker boehner went to the floor to plead his case, not to those democrats who were ready to cast this compromise vote, but to the 59 republicans who were about to vote no. is it perfect? no. i d be the first one to admit that it s flawed. well, welcome to divided government. i can tell you the negotiations that went on over the last four or five weeks. they weren t easy. especially when you ve got another body on the other side of this capital that doesn t want to cut spending. and clearly administration that doesn t want to cut spending. but i ll tell you that this is the best we could get out of divided government. boehner s job made much more complicated today by the congressional budget office, which has a history of making things complicated when too many gimmicks are squeezed into the bill.
good evening from new york. after a decade of republicans burning up a trillion dollar surplus and replacing it with the biggest deficit in history, a republican speaker brings the biggest single year budget cut in history to the floor of the house of representatives cutting programs dear to democrats, like limiting reproductive rights in washington, d.c. and the only way that bill can pass is with democratic votes. so the democrats deliver twice as many votes as the republican speaker needed, and the big passes 260 to 167. just before the vote, speaker boehner went to the floor to plead his case, not to those democrats who were ready to cast this compromise vote, but to the 59 republicans who were about to vote no. is it perfect? no. i d be the first one to admit that it s flawed. well, welcome to divided government.