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co-founder of inequality media and the author of the book the system: who rigged it and how we fix it. thank you so much for sharing your perspective with us this afternoon. we are now just eight days from fall aufg the fiscal cliff. and obviously it takes time to have any agreement to get through congress. realistically for those negotiators, what s the deadline? how much time do they have left? well, janet yellen is setting the deadline in terms of the so-called x date, the date in which the united states runs out of money to pay the nation s bills. she has said that it s going to be at the start of june. she s not been very specific about it. but i want to bring viewers attention to a simple fact, and that is that the x date doesn t really exist. there is, there s nothing in law or the constitution or any other place where you can find a definition for when the united states runs out of money.
honor american debts, we joined prominent legal scholars, economists, former budget officials, and a former president in advocating for invoking the 14th amendment of the constitution. lots to talk about, leading our discussion tonight, is democratic congressman ro khanna, of california. he s a member of the oversight committee and a member of the progression null coffins. and robert reich, he is a professor of and he s a cofounder of inequality media. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. congressman, let me start with you. talk to me about the state of things right now. we have on again off again negotiations. we have about ten days, we have a call for republicans to come over and sign on an effort to just get this vote passed. a clean vote passed. and we have discussions about the 14th amendment. all of these are remarkably serious things. what is the state of play? ali, it sounds complex. but it s really pretty simple. we don t negotiate about whether we pay our bills in a
he is a professor of and he s a cofounder of inequality media. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. congressman, let me start with you. talk to me about the state of things right now. we have on again off again negotiations. we have about ten days, we have a call for republicans to come over and sign on an effort to just get this vote passed. a clean vote passed. and we have discussions about the 14th amendment. all of these are remarkably serious things. what is the state of play? ali, it sounds complex. but it s really pretty simple. we don t negotiate about whether we pay our bills in america. we pay our bills. democrats did this when donald trump was president. now, president biden needs to pay the debt. this is not congress against the president. this is congress trying to abrogate what past congresses have done. past congresses have said, pay this money. president biden needs to pay. we had the district petition
Inequality Media (Robert Reich) 2 minutes: https://youtu.be/mBwRBxV4cKg Who will it be? Clarence Thomas for his work is demonstrating how underpaid Supreme Court justices are and how they must take on extra work (such as being an NFT) to make ends meet? Mitt Romney for his statement that Democrats did not stop Republicans from using the…