about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
texas sized fall from grace, the state s controversial attorney general, ken paxton, is impeached by fellow republicans in the state house. texas congresswoman, jasmine calk, joins me live to talk about that and more. and, as sunday show first. republican presidential candidate, asa hutchison, joins me live. how does he plan to stand out in a crowded field still dominated by donald trump? i ll ask him. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. we begin with a deal of house speaker kevin mccarthy and president john biden reached an agreement after a three-month standoff that almost triggered a u.s. to fall. the tentative deal would boost the nation s borrowing limit for the next two years, until after the 2024 presidential election. there are no changes to medicaid, or biden s student debt relief bill. but, the deal does include work requirements for recipients of federal aid like snap. increasing the aid from 29 to 34 with the exception of veterans. this is a deal w
you. we have got a lot more coming, up everybody. you are watching msnbc, or second hour starts right now. starts right now hey everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. if you re just joining, us welcome. if you are sticking with, us we are so thankful for that. collision course, the president in the air right now, flying back to washington and right into a debt ceiling showdown with speaker mccarthy. the two men sit to meet tomorrow sometime, to try to resolve the gulf of differences between them as they face a deadline. it could lead to the unimaginable default by the united states of america. my assessment is that the odds of reaching june 15th will be unable to pay all of our bills. it s quite low. based on what i ve offered, i would be blameless. on the politics of, it no one would be blameless. it seems as though he wants to default more than he wants a deal. speaker mccarthy is allowing himself in the entire nation to be held hostage by the biden republicans. just by
affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, we re one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president biden and house speaker mccarthy at the white house is still ongoing as the clock ticks down to find some agreement to avert economic disaster. treasury secretary yellen warned again of an economic default saying it s highly unlikely the u.s. will run out of cash if the debt ceiling isn t solved by this. lyndon johnson was a united states senator for 12 years, quote, if you can convince the lowest white man that he s better than the best colored man, he won t notice you re picking his pocket. th
it s time for us to be this sunday, taking on trump. the republican primary field will be expanding this week as florida governor ron desantis and tim scott both jump into the 2024 race. think the party has developed a party of losing. it s time for us to be proud to be americans and proud of our president. can either candidate make the case he s the better alternative than donald trump and unite the party process in the primary battle ahead? i ll talk to republican congressman byron donald of florida who is currently backing donald trump. plus, flirting with disaster. debt ceiling negotiations break down, restart and then stop again. default is not an option. this white house will not acknowledge that they re spending too much. what s really going on inside the talks. is either side negotiating in good faith? and how serious is the june 1st deadline for a catastrophic default? i ll talk to treasury secretary janet yellen. and abortion follow ticks. republic