problem: makes me think that he s really not serious about tackling the big problems that face our country. he s talking about it, but i m not seeing real action yet. and i just think this is the moment. we all know what the problems are. why don t we just deal with them? no more kicking the can down the road. no more whistling past the graveyard. and now is the time to deal with the fiscal problems we have in an adult-like manner. alisyn: steve moore is senior economic writer for the wall street journal . hi steve. hi alisyn. alisyn: today is the day. he has officially hit the debt ceiling. what does this really mean foras of us? i m sure alisyn a lot of people are confused about this because after all as you just noted the $14.3 trillion legal debt limit has been reached today, so people are probably wondering how can the federal government continue to borrow when they haven t extended that debt ceiling, and the answer is that the treasury department has all sorts of account
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the president did not present a case to contradict that assessment because he can t. he is playing politics at the safety of every single american citizen. let s get to our guests. kacie hunt, ashley parker, and susan glasser. let me start with you ash will on this idea as the president as determined to tear down everything that balm was foras he is o mosted to eithpposed to that he unravelled today. i think what you said about him being a human wrecking ball is impaexactly right.
saying we and you, the poles, and the europeans, the west. this was a defense of the west. that s what made it so unusual foras trump. this is the antithesis of his inaugural address, because it was about america. he didn t speak about the free world. he spokeec about our allies as parasites in that speech. this was a complete overturning of that. this is a return to traditional american universalism, leading the community of nations meaning nato, the west, europe, including a lot of east asia, other places as well. and by taking on the mantle of leadership,ac basically expandig the meaning of americanism to go beyond our shores. it was a huge step, and extremely significant. tucker: what was so interesting about it for my perspective was not his attack on islamic extremism, which i think is warranted and good for