as the republican primary field continues to expand, i can t help but wonder are we about to see a 2016 repeat, with trump gliding to the gop nomination? blas, former labor secretary and top economist robert reich is here to help us understand the new debt limit deal, and whether democrats can get behind it, whether they should get behind it. and, democratic presidential candidate marianne williams will also join us live to discuss her 2024 run, pushing president biden to the left and what she thinks this candidacy will end differently for her. good evening, i m mehdi hassan. crisis averted, or so they say. earlier this evening, president biden addressed the nation detailing the debt limit deal brokered in principle between his administration and top congressional republicans. the agreement prevents the worst possible crisis, a fish default, for the first time in our nation s history an economic recession, retirement accounts devastated millions of jobs lost. also predicts
the mehdi hassan show, divided they fall. as a republican five repeal colors to expand, i can help but wonder are we about to see a 2016 repeat, with trump gliding to the gop nomination? blas, former labor secretary and top economist robert reich is here to help us understand the new debt limit deal, and whether democrats can get behind it, whether they should get behind it. and, democratic presidential candidate marion williams will also join us live to discuss her 2024 run, pushing president biden to the left and what she thinks this candidacy will and differently for her. good evening, i m mehdi hassan. crisis averted, or so they say. earlier this evening, president biden addressed the nation detailing the debt limit deal brokered in principle between his administration and top congressional republicans. the agreement prevents the words possible crisis, a default, for the first time in our nation s history an economic recession, retirement accounts devastated millions of
covid-19 pandemic. that s according to a newly updated classified intelligence report from the u.s. energy department. according to two sources energy officials have low confidence in this latest assessment. that means the information is either not reliable enough or it s too fragmented to know for sure. it only adds to this big divide within the u.s. government over whether the pandemic began in china 2019, as a result of a lab leak, or whether it emerged naturally. president biden specifically requested that the national labs which are part of the department of energy be brought into this assessment. because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here. we need to do extensive hearings. i hope our democratic colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. but this is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world. steven jiang live from beijing with the
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deal, but it s going to be tough going over the next week to get the 218 votes that biden needs and also kevin mccarthy needs. it s interesting you pointed out the i ve been critical of it today. vendors of the biden votes they, no no, no this is how you negotiate. you stay silent, you re talking behind the scenes, you get a bipartisan agreement. the problem with that approach, of course, if he misses the big picture. and the big picture is that republicans are not to sell spending cuts of some sort of inherently good economic move, and we have to do this whole charade again in 2025 because we haven t delegitimized the idea of a debt ceiling. there s also, as you say, the charade around debts and deficits. i would point out to, you bob, in this agreement this deal cuts back the money that biden wanted the irs to spend on chasing tax cheats, money that actually increases tax revenues and decreases the deficit. this deal, the irs cut part of it, will actually increase the deficit and