biden s nightmare. i concluded that it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. cooperating fully. the president plays defense as the white house grapples with a brand new political reality. plus, mccarthy s majority comes back together after a bruising battle. we are one party. what we went through last week makes us strongly. next up a spending strike. and a defiant george santos says he is not going anywhere. i will not resign. i will hold the office elected by the people. even as gop colleagues say it is time for him to go. can t be honest with yourself you ll never be honest with your constituents. hello and welcome to inside politic sunday. the white house was feeling good this time last week. the republicans emerging from a nasty public civil war. inflation is coming down and the approval ratings are ticking up. what a difference seven days can make. classified materials next to your corvette? what were you thinking? i d get a ch
Indicating to stand in the way of a clean debt ceiling limit increase. the details is whispered about. jonah, this is not entire ly a new idea but i think most people agree it is not that workable and kevin mccarthy said we ll vote on this. maybe just signaling? yeah. too clever by half but a problem as conservatives watched this stuff? when there s a government shutdown and it is stupid and bad for the country and the solvency but there s this tactic where the federal government will shut down the most popular aspects of government first to highlight the problem with the shutdown so like social security
Even get started until after 4:00 p.m. which immediately said to me they deliberately made a decision to wait until the stock markets closed because of what he was about to say. tell our viewers what he said. reporter: well, wolf, that s not a bad guess. i can t confirm to you that that s the reason why they delayed the briefing. but i can tell you that what that briefing entailed for reporters was not exactly great news for the financial markets. white house press secretary jay carney came out and yes, did confirm that the president and speaker boehner spoke by phone earlier this afternoon but what the president is saying at this point is he is not budging when it comes to this idea that he has, this negotiating position that he has that there must be a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government and a clean debt ceiling limit increase. what dana bash was saying a few moments ago i think is right, that the president is not willing to sign on to an increase in the nation s d