congress have said in the past, sort of to deflect off what the issue at hand was. but the white house, and i think a lot of republicans, were able to use this opportunity to highlight the increasing divide that you do see amongst congress and the sorted of old er generation of democratic congressman and the new freshmen congressmen. i think for nancy pelosi and leadership, their goal is to make this a one-off and move forward. it s tbd to see if other comments are made like those that spark this had entire debate. phil i want to get your reaction, too. didn t we see this where an older insurgent, bernie sanders, said it hurts the party, because it divides them against the worst candidate in history. now new insurgents saying we re going into an election where we need to be unified, maybe around a moderate candidate, joe biden, but let s see if we can separate the party again. this isn t the first time this happened. we saw people go after joe biden
house thmajority leader. it s part of a trip that comes every two years from freshmen congressmen from apec. they have lobbied strongly against the deal. benjamin netanyahu will meet with them today. he has been one of the most o outspoken critics. benjamin netanyahu will have his chance to push against the most critical part of that deal which is congress, president obama trying to make sure he has the votes to get this through. some congressional delegation goes every other year to israel. but there is this news conference. do you know what they re going to discuss? that conference is scheduled for early tomorrow morning. we don t have a sense of what
on the other side who think that my policies are misguided. that s putting it mildly. on the left, van jones, on the right, s.e. cupp. in the crossfire. representative steven horseford, a democrat of nevada and representative luke messer, an indiana republican. a new start or more of the same? tonight on crossfire. welcome to crossfire i am van jones on the left. i m s.e. cupp on the right. in the crossfire tonight a pair of freshmen congressmen who have just got an crash course in how things get done here in washington. the president took an opportunity today not to bring two political parties together or to assure the country that he will get us back on course. instead, he took swipes at republicans, lectured us about how government should work, and of course criticized washington. we know that the american people s frustration with what goes on in this town has never been higher.
ridiculist tonight. breaking news everyone. tonight right now in that building over on the senate side according to democrat harry reid who spoke last hour, nothing is going on. the senate is now adjourned. but the clock is still ticking and the government is running out of money to pay the bills at this moment because the debt limit was not raised back in may, the united states treasury has less cash on hand than apple computer. on wednesday the government will have $23 billion in social security checks to send out and not enough cash to cover them unless it doesn t send out a whole lot of other checks. now, earlier this evening after a string of delays the house narrowly passed speaker john boehner s version of a debt reduction bill. i stuck my neck out a mile to try this. to get an agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try this. to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are.
a string of delays the house narrowly passed speaker john boehner s version of a debt reduction bill. i stuck my neck out a mile to try this. to get an agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try this. to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted. and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table! tell us where you are! [ cheers and applause ] well, the bill which had new language requiring congress to pass a balanced budget amendment before the debt ceiling is raised was quickly rejected on the senate side. then lawmakers took up majority leader reid s debt proposal after a question from minority leader mcconnel senator reid try this. ed to get a vote on it tonight by a simple majority. minority leader mitch mcconne