negotiations between the president and speaker for weeks. but now oppose the byproduct. i think if the speaker negotiates that with the president the speaker will find out a lot of republicans won t be agreeing with the speaker. the g.o.p. may need democrats to vote yes if too many republicans defect. but democrats may not help. kevin mccarthy needs to understand that he is not entitled to votes from a party that he does not belong to. in the talks, democrats aim to freeze spending at this year s levels. republicans demand the government reverted to precovid numbers. the pandemic is over. so why would you lock in the highest bought of spending. but republicans still want additional money for the pentagon. bret, some tea leaves, the house is out until there is a bill to vote on. but fox learned that the g.o.p. congressional baseball team reserved the team s practice field for next wednesday and thursday. if there s a deal a practice could signal when the house returns to v
media shy and the president has been very clear where he stands on what congress should be doing. members of congress talking to the president s negotiating team say biden is keeping his team s hands tied. what we need is is a team fy empowered by the white house to get the thing done. they are absolutely empowered. this is a team that the president collect selected himself. the administration is signaling any deal will need to garner dozens, if not 100 or more democratic votes. as in recent years, including under former president trump. progressives have more than 100 members. our caucus overwhelmingly in our whip count said that they would not agree to a bill that has work requirements, that hurt poor people. new fox polling shows 57% of americans believe congress should increase the debt limit only if there are spending cuts. and if no deal is reached, 47% would blame president biden. 44% congressional republicans. as the treasury secretary
the coalition that put him together. we talked about it last week where he continues to struggle with them. and why you continue to see prominent democrats call for someone else. today you had someone saying michelle obama could be the nominee if the president steps aside. this continues to happen. that democrats talk about somebody else being their nominee. harris: just to remind everybody doug schoen was a key advisor in the clinton white house and told me on the air i m not voting for hillary clinton. robert f. kennedy junior calls it like he sees it says he can beat joe biden in the 2024 primary. he told fox on a phone interview yes, i can. i think i m in better shape to win a general election than any other person on the democratic ticket. recent fox polling shows he has already gotten about 20% of democrat voters support. when you add it to marianne williamson they are like 28%, almost a third.
general election. so i don t believe that joe biden is out of the woods. i think there will be a protest vote. harris: the latest fox polling as you saw shows challenger robert f. kennedy junior with 19% support. self-help author marianne williamson at 9%. combine that for 28% of the voters at this point. you inch up a little more and you will be at a third. as of now, the dnc has no plans to hold primary debates. podcast host joe rogan one of money to slam that decision. how do we get a better democrat if you don t let the president debate? they won t let him debate. robert kennedy junior and the other woman, marianne williamson are both promising candidates for the democratic party but they won t let him debate before the primaries. it s like that is not that democratic. harris: joe rogan couldn t
remember it was really nice weather in january and february of this year. that brought people out to the car lots. they were looking buying cars and auto components and that boosted and contributed 45% to the 1.1% number. that s a big number. i don t know if auto sales and components will keep up. we re going down in terms of growth. bill: we ve seen that trend. how do you feel about the economy? we asked this question in fox polling. 70% of you think it is getting worse. that s a direct reflection of the consumer. consumer spending is good at the moment. it is good because jobs are good. it is all tied together to the employment numbers. unemployment is expected to catch up in terms of job cuts. we re seeing a lot of industry announce job tech. look at tech, meta , goldman sachs. the employment situation is tight overall, wages are up, it is still failing to keep up with