this don t know that outcome and so many implications of it. but we can take a look at a few things, what prigozhin is doing with rostov-on-don is this military headquarters and he s got it hostage and he ll use it as negotiations if putin is willing to negotiate. so he s got one group doing that and that s where he s located himself. the second group is on the march towards moscow and they re north and by passed a town. there has been contact with russian aviation. as you ve mentioned multiple times, the march north has been relatively unimpeded and uncontested by any russian forces whatsoever. it doesn t surprise me, remember, this is a centralized military system. the united states military is decentralized. we empower tactical unit
instead of holding a public ceremony with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, the president simply signed the legislation in private at the oval office, posting that video on twitter. joining us now white house reporter from the associated press, our friend darlene. darlene, good morning. let s talk about this debt deal. it seems like everyone involved wanted to turn the page as quickly as possible after it held it hostage for weeks is. there any concern in the white house, certain elements of the deal like student loan repayments, work requirements might dampen enthusiasm among democrats as we start looking toward campaign season? good morning, jonathan. that s super a concern at the white house. as you know, the student loan repayment plan was a priority
and then get more time for both sides to iron this out? that s been bandied about. that s where i would be. i don t think it s realistic either, neil. i don t think it will happen. that s what i would be for. neil: you know, republicans, congress woman, have blamed the president for early on not playing a more active role. it could have been in the early days he didn t want to tie a debt creeling to spending cuts. i get that. the valuable time was lost because that is exactly what is being debated and discussed now. look, i do believe that we have in previous administrations not held the debt ceiling hostage. i don t think we should hold it hostage. if i m to be consistent, i m a person that says people should always sit down and talk. we are where we are. i m not going to we are we with are now and i want to know how we re not going to default. i agree with you we need to address is the spending or
if you have a credit card debt and as a family, would you say, look, let s just not pay the debt? let s pay the debt and then we can discuss what budget cuts we should make. it s important to realize what they re doing. they re doing it because they don t they want the president the economy to not do well. people on record saying that. do you think that s fair, they want the economy to not do well? i don t understand why else they re holding it hostage. i ll take that as a no. zero agreement to any spending cuts even if we default. i m open to spending cuts conversation after we pay our bills. let s move on to the banks. because we just saw the three big u.s. banks fail since march. that is extraordinary. do you expect more banks two in california. do you expect more banks to fail this year? i hope not, but there i can t say with 100% confidence until, in my view, we have a guarantee on uninsured bank deposits. i ve been calling for that since march.
purge, which came after a hefty fee for lying. if you have a few basic facts the about this we have a haven t reported that one party s so pure. we just reported one party is pretending to take it hostage, but they re not that credible. do you think this is an area where the actual predicate is out there? people kind of know this is, pardon my language, crap? well, there s going to be one hard fact that will matter if the debt ceiling is not raised, which is the economy crashes. that is something that people will immediately feel. that is a situation where household wealth will decrease, where americans incomes will decrease, where americans will lose their jobs, their retirement funds. those are really hard facts that will very much matter, and i think that that s something that republicans, particularly those in swing districts, are going to be cognizant about when they face re-election in 2024. they have to know that we cannot