welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this businbusy news day with us. the president called the latest debt ceil ing meeting productiv and a sign of good progress. but kevin mccarthy s morning after update is rather bleak. nowhere near a deal. this as the treasury begins checking how long agencies can pay their bills. plus legal quick sand for donald trump. his words at a cnn town hall push e. jean carroll to seek more damages and his instructions about how to handle classified documents end up in the hands of the special counsel. and swing voters dread the idea of a biden/trump rematch, but their focus group on what happened if there is one is quite revealing. the biden team arriving last yhour. they are now with the team behind closed doors. both sides say there s mgood faith, yet both sides also say there is little progress. this morning the speaker telling fellow house republicans the two sides are nowhere near agr agreement,
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mitigating measures, but not then go to the second and third strands of plan b which would be mandating face masks in crowded indoor settings and also the use of vaccine passports. the government clearly is aware and cautious around the rising numbers but doesn t want to press the button on mandating a change in our behaviour. here is the health minister on breakfast a little earlier. we are seeing infections rising. you saw what the secretary of state said yesterday. and we are seeing hospitalisations and deaths are rising. but at a much lower rate. we don t believe that, even though the nhs is under real pressure, it always is in winter but it is particularly now, that it is under unsustainable pressure and that now is not the right moment to look to trigger plan b. and that notion of unsustainable pressure has always been the government s driving motivation around the implementation of restrictions on our liberties and they don t think we are there yet.
pressure and that now is not the right moment to look to trigger plan b. that notion of unsustainable pressure has always been the government s driving motivation around the implementation of restrictions on our liberties and they don t think we are there yet. it is striking that medical organisation after medical organisation, and trade unions, think something should happen. the chief medical adviser patrick vallance has said publicly he is forever saying privately to the prime minister if you think you have to do something you probably have to do something, act now. mitigation measures are still in place in northern ireland, wales and scotland, which were relaxed months ago in england. joining me now is dr chaand nagpaul, chairman