freeman and omar jimenez. okay, the u.s. has one week left to southeast that the myth crisis before facing the fall. sources tell cnn that white house officials and gop negotiators are getting closer to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, and zane is on the story. are we on the verge of a deal? i think that the major disaster that we were talking about on tuesday as more or less been a voted for now. i am some optimistic based on what i am hearing. i think i am getting the impression that if mccarthy want to make a deal at this point, he probably could. and terms that the contours of what we are hearing right now, there is possibly a deal in the works to raise the debt ceiling to years and issue spending cuts for two years. that s good news there. i think that my concern is even if they reach a deal, this is what i was talking about earlier, even at the reach a deal and you have mccarthy and biden come together to reach a deal, mccarthy still has to sell it, right? that
The end seven years ago we were left with something that is unsustainable, we were left with something hurting americans back home, thats hurting Health Care Coverage and its a binary choice, a choice of continuing down a path of Affordable Care act thats not working or repealing it and repairing it and moving forward in the process. I ran on that in 2009 that i was going to repeal and replace obamacare im going to vote yes so we can repeal an start the process of of repeal and replacing obamacare. Do you have a sense of other februaries of the Freedom Caucus if they are moving forward . I dont. The wednesday group, the friday group, i got a lot of friends on both sides of the aisle, what im hearing is everybody has their opinion. The real problem is there are two choices either move forward and repeal this bill that everybody wants us to repeal back home and what we all ran on
or youre going to allow it just to continue. Because you heard the president and ive got to give the presiden
i am because i did not know that he had not talked to the freedom caucus first and found out what they would agree to. by would-be got through this exercise of utility if he will make it to president biden and then at the go site to the freedom caucus? they are the ones, as you know, congressman matt gaetz is one of the people who said i don t believe i don t believe in the schedule at the debt limit, and this is to be a group of republicans that i didn t believe that a default would be that bad or it s grossly exaggerated, and that is the issue. i think that line of thinking is foolish. ate the fall for this country would be armageddon. it would be absolutely catastrophic. i don t think that will get there though. i just don t believe that we will get there. even just being close. i feel like we re already starting to see i agree that there is cautious optimism out there, but on the other side of cautious optimism, i am sure is reckless pessimism,
a thinks. even the science that voting for gun control bills if you are a republican drops your amount of ability to win. i think there is got to be conservative buy in from the freedom caucus first. there is a window. he basically said he is open to the discussion, but one of the people who said i did not know what this was. i had to call my son and ask him. why do people think their kids know? it sounds like a video game. not to go back to breitbart coverage, but that s the same thing there. there is no explainers on what it is, but it s not giving an inch. no matter what they are. that gets me back to the question of the president.
how would you advise him moving forward with tax reforms? i think there are two choices he can take. one is, go to the freedom caucus first and then move center from there. you want to go to the people who are going to be more obstructionist to begin with and then allow the compromise to happen from there. that gets the freedom caucus to have buy-in to the tax reform in the first place. you don t think he should reach out to democrats, instead? that s the second choice. the first choice is to take the tactic of going to the freedom caucus. the second is to say i ve lost the freedom caucus, i m going discount those votes from my vote total how do i get that many democrats to now come on board? that s the other tactic he could take to take a more middle of the road approach the the concern i would have there is what does that do with the more vocal part of his space. i think he s in a tough spot having failed at this. i think he doesn t have as much capital. i think the freedom cau