president biden signalled he might be open to them, democrats in congress revolted. they aren t fair, and they don t work, dems argued. republicans say they are fair and that it is only responsible to have a baseline standard for who can receive government benefits like medicaid, that a requirement to work would motivate people to work. a hand up, not a hand out, says speaker kevin mccarthy. so how does a work requirement function in actuality? we ve got one of my favorite policy wonks with us to explain because it is a tricky issue. one that could sink a deal, and in light of that, a number of democrats are coming up with a plan b. there s one in the house to force a floor vote on the debt, over the objections of gop leadership if need be, and another being floated in the senate to negate a vote entirely. president biden, you have the authority all on your own, they say. one of those senators joins us to explain why. but first, let s get to the reporting and the policy. join
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. with a gap between the reality of our post-january 6th politics and the republican party s alternate reality with its paranoid delusions about the deep state and the glorification of the capitol insurrection has never been wider. today s hearing on capitol hill by the so-called weaponization committee led by ohio republican jim jordan, involved, according to the republicans on that committee, fbi whistleblowers talking about supposed abuses at the bureau. that delusion was undercut by the reality before the hearing began. the washington post reported two fbi agents set to appear before a house subcommittee thursday had their security clearances revoked this morning over security concerns. that is according to a letter sent by the fbi to the house judiciary committee on wednesday and obtained by the washington post. those two witnesses are steven friend and marcus allen, and according to the new york times, quote, mr. all
donald trump will take himself out? is that what they re banking on president gap between him and trump is vast. he s leading republicans but if he wants to overcome trump he has to do something that makes voters like him more than trump and nothing has worked, even though he s not officially campaigning, but he s been campaigning for a while. right. and look, look at the operation that is surrounding ron desantis. the guy who is leading the super pac jeff roe was ted cruz s campaign manager in 2016. they have a lot of those ted cruz allies from eight years ago. they know what happened in 2016, ted cruz not going after donald trump directly did not work. until the end, may 3rd that day when he went off calling him a serial fill lander, amoral, at that point it was too late. the question is can they convince this man who is different than ted cruz to run differently. thank you very much. that s going to do it for me today. deadline white house starts right now.
made a misconduct matrix, it put we did not want to lump together all different kinds of behavior that just have to do with powerful men behaving in different ways that people disapprove of. obviously since the news this week is of dominique strauss-kahn, that s the most extreme case, if those charges are true, he s not a womanizer, he s not a fill lander, he s a violent criminal. so that s at one extreme. at the other extreme there are cases that are more a matter of hypocrisy, for instance a politician that presents himself as a family values champion, in the case of newt gingrich, another one who s coming up a lot this week. who was pursuing the impeachment of a president for lie about his
clinton it affected the entire country that was tied up for a year with investigation and impeachment. so for the next hour in partnership with time magazine, we ll take a look at what makes powerful men who seem to have it all risk nerve for adultous sex. first a criminal hotel housekeeper. dominique strauss-kahn former california governor arnold schwarzenegger publicly admitted fathering a child with his family s housekeeper more than a decade ago. and as cnn s tom tomorrforeman explains, these men are simply the latest in a gallery of cheaters. even in the midst of this sex scandal, the former california governor has plenty of company. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. ever since bill clinton was caught fooling around 15 years ago, the public appetite for dirt have outed dozens of public figures for indiscretions. such public scandals have had an impact. newt gingrich led the charge against clinton, but twice had affairs of his own. senators david