the test of that is, you know, these people after donald trump lost the election to joe biden november of 2020, could ve said here, i m getting off the trump train. 6th of january, trump did what no president has ever done before, tried to destroy our democracy with a coup to stay in office. they could ve gotten off the train than, most of these people did not. all these people who are running. then a week after joe biden took office, speaker, now speaker mccarthy, could have said, i like a lot of donald trump s programs, the fact he said it, he did say it. he did at first, but the coup d états and insurrection, maybe a little dealbreaker for me. instead, eight days after the inauguration, he goes down to mar-a-lago, poses next to trump like a picture of neville chamberlain and adolf hitler in 1938, not saying that trump s killer, but that was that kind of almost not of that magnitude,
and certainly mike pence isn t doing that. if there s anybody out there who will take the fight to trump, though, it s chris christie. i don t know that that is a path to the nominee, but i think that you will find he is not a soft-spoken guy when he s on the campaign trail. folks remember from 2016, you know, he really was trying to bring the fight but he didn t bring it to trump in 2016. i suspect this might be a different chris christie we see this time around. let me pivot to that deal for a minute here and how it impacts kevin mccarthy s speakership. he had been taking a victory lap for passing the deal with help from democrats but hard liners in their party, they re not happy. they re even floating the idea that his speakership could be in danger. let s take a listen. i don t know of a motion to vacate will happen right away. i do know speaker mccarthy has credibility issues. when he was running for speaker
i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is scheduled to make an estimated 92 billion dollars of payments and transference, including a regularly scheduled
that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve
we expect he is also very cold, sometime next week to. so we are seeing the gop primary just heating up here as trump of course continues to dramatically move in the polls, even after s indictment, even after that town hall on cnn. we ll see how this shakes out. even after all that. nbc s julia tsirkin starting us off from capitol hill. julia, thank you. now speaker mccarthy tells speaker mccarthy he hopes to find quote, common ground during his meeting with the president tomorrow but that will not be easy, according to new rip as a sticking point in negotiations include republican proposals for expanded work requirements for welfare recipients. oil and gas projects, caps on future discretionary spending in rescinding unspent covid-19 rescue funds. republicans also called for an increase to defense spending, which the white house said with