we ll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. so we are on to the united states senate, where things might take a while, because of the fact that the amendments are allowed, as you pointed out. but it is pretty clear that chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell are going to get this thing through the senate intact. they sure are. it s clear that tim kaine has a lot of, he is wounded, i think, in many ways, by the way the white house put the mountain valley pell plane in the steel. but it sounds lake the democrats believe they need to be the adult in the room and set aside the personal concerns and ultimately say yes to something they never wanted to be part of to begin with. well, democrats, of course, have the curse of responsibility. yeah. they are the responsibility party. the other party is the not serious party, and so democrats frequently found themselves casting difficult votes in
discharge petition, and they could pass it. the democrats were trying to find those five republicans and the republicans were very afraid that they would find those pipe republicans, and that put all the more pressure on kevin mccarthy to reach a deal with joe biden, the kind of deal kevin mccarthy said he would never make. joe biden is the most experienced president who has ever had to negotiate a debt ceiling bill. negotiating on the debt ceiling is a 24 century phenomenon that only two presidents have really had to do, president obama and president at the president side, throughout this and negotiation, was his highly respected director of the office and budget, jelani young. she previously worked on the appropriations committee suspected credibility with republicans, including kevin mccarthy. also on the presidents side in this negotiations was gene sperling, who first worked on economic policy in the white house under president bill