border. whether it s crime surging in our streets. this is a president that is failing the american people. so i think that bodes very well for the republican field. bret: bodes very well. there is a line here that if it gets to the bad part, whether they are playing the politics of it. at the moment republicans feel very good. i have asked republicans who have won in biden won districts, conservative. they say we think we might win this time. we have watched debt ceilings where republicans in the past have faced blow back for pushing for spending cuts. they think because they passed this house g.o.p. plan they were pushing the white house. the white house took the position we re not going to negotiate and they are claiming they are not negotiating even though they are negotiating and now they are negotiating that they are winning this hand. now there is still time for that to change. you have to see the final product but, at the moment, they are feeling very strongly about their
times it was passed under trump which i said there should be no debt ceiling debate, he agreed with that during the trump administration. amazing the trump tax cuts forced huge deficits, he still wanted to pass all of the debt ceilings. remember, nancy pelosi and trump, president trump, excuse me, they did not have a debate. they the democrats when they were running the house passed it, it s been passed 79 times, or 78 times, 49 times under a republican president, including president reagan 18 times. listen, i m all for negotiating budget. i think i have been more fiscally conservative than steve and his entire group. that have believed, have not worked in 40 years. sandra: steve? i think robert wolf is a
aircraft. and on debt ceilings it looks like talks the president was updated on remotely are back on again. they resumed tonight hours after house speaker kevin mccarthy s negotiators called a halt to them earlier today. as only cnn can we have correspondents spanning the globe tonight. phil mattingly, sam kylie in ukraine. we re going to start with phil. what s the latest you re hearing from white house officials about debt ceiling negotiations? reporter: there was a pause with negotiators walking out of the room saying there simply had been no progress particularly on the central issue of the scale of spending cuts the white house is willing to consider and basically putting a halt to everything. it had been days of hours on end of meetings between the president s top negotiators and speaker kevin mccarthy s negotiating team. however, they are now back on. just about ten minutes ago, anderson, the 90-minute rejuvenation i guess of the talks that were under way at the capitol came t
this. we need to change that behavior and make america stronger, less dependent on china hand curve inflation. speaker mccarthy, what is your left of optimism that this will get resolved? if this is where we were in february, i d be very optimistic that this would get solved right away. the structure has changed. we re in a better process. you want to say anything else? seven of the last ten debt ceilings have carried something else. what the speaker and are are abdicating is not unusual. it s more common than not. a perfect example of it is the congressional review acts that we ve been voting on periodically in congress to overturn was done on a debt ceiling during the clinton administration. so this shouldn t be this hard. number 1, we know we re not