reasonable and loyal to kevin mccarthy? no. all the people who took the speaker vote hostage aren t going to vote for whatever the deal is. that s clear. there s no such thing of a debt increase that gets every republican. i think kevin mccarthy is at least to this point showing that he wants to at least come across as the reasonable one here. he s just saying, i want to have negotiations. i m taking social security off the table, taking medicare off the table. i just want to have a conversation. if that s the tone he takes throughout, it sounds like joe biden was willing to at least entertain something. it is not normal to increase the debt limit with nothing attached to it. it is the norm to have things attached to it. well, define normal. as of when? as of most debt limit increases over the last 40 years have been attached to something else. it is true that we increased the debt limit under donald trump. i will tell you firsthand, that was not easy either. there had to be thin
altering the filibuster on issues like voting rights and the debt limit increases. also tonight the house voting to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress for defying a subpoena. late tonight the cdc director approving booster shots for the moderna and j&j vaccines, endorsing the recommendations from the agency s vaccine advisory committee. so, we ve got a lot to talk about. let s bring in mr. david axle robi rod, and mr. bakar ri sellers. thanks for the tie. yeah. david, hello to you. so much at stake thanks for my tie? what s going on here? bakar ri is not wearing a necktie. i said tie, t-i-e.
together and pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and his social safety net plan, saying and i quote here i do think that we ll get a deal. and saying he s open to altering the filibuster on issues like voting rights and the debt limit increases. also tonight, the house voting to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection at the capitol. and late tonight, the cdc director approving booster shots for the moderna and j&j vaccines, endorsing the recommendations from the agency s vaccine advisory committee. we ve got a lot to talk about. let s bring in now cnn senior political commentator mr. david axelrod, a former obama senior adviser, and political commentator mr. bakari sellers. thanks for the tie. david, hello to you. no thanks for my time? no.
close in positions where he s been accused of nepotism and there s been questions raised about whether it s wise because the liabilities of his children, you know, are reflecting back on him because they re working in official positions in the white house. it reads like a script from like kind of a bad 80s movie in a way to have that line be said that way, but it shows that mulvaney has kind of figured out how to read the president, how to work the president, and it s been successful for him thus far, having something like that video come out that shows that maybe it was all intention and not as genuine as it appeared might undercut the work he s being doing to self-promote. it s not easy to survive in this white house for two years. mick mulvaney has figured out a way. he voted against the very kinds of compromises that this white house is going to have to strike on things like government funding. he was an instigator of the 2013 government shutdown, which the incoming minority lea
trump made with democratic leadership to do what i just talked about, keep the government running and increase the debt ceiling. that s an understatement, ali. look, members of congress has vacated capitol hill already, and they did it partly because they really wanted to get this legislation signed quickly and out the door because of the hurricane that is bairg down on florida. and of course the urgency of helping people in texas who were so terribly affected by this flooding. but this was not an easy process for republicans. they have there what is a usual conference meeting downstairs in the basement this morning, but it turned contentious because two administration officials, the treasury secretary and the director of management and budget, who of course is mick mulvaney, a former member of the freedom caucus here on capitol hill, and someone who has not been a fan of debt limit increases in the past, they went in to try to convince republicans to vote for this package and they w