i m jake tapper. president biden faces one of the biggest tests of his presidency which could affect the world economy and his re-election campaign. the goal is to avert a catastrophic debt default. the president is set to meet with speaker mccarthy tuesday. it is not clear if the president is willing to negotiate or whether the negotiations would wrap up before the u.s. is likely to breach the debt limit in early june. joining me now to discuss the chairman of the senate judiciary committee dick durbin of illinois. we have so much to talk about. obviously let s start with the horrific news out of texas, eight people killed after a gunman opened fire at a shopping center. congress passed the first significant gun legislation in decades after the uvalde shooting. it is still obviously far short of what you think is needed. do you think there is any appetite for any more potential bipartisan efforts to build on the law, perhaps expand the red flag laws to keep guns out of the hands of pe
himes that it is a national security threat not solving this problem? i think if the president fails to negotiate with congress and has continued out of control spending that threatens our economy that it is a national security threat. he has the ability to sit down and do that and for us to come to a deal and agreement. that is what the american public wants and what i think they ll require from congress and the president. i think he needs to get on with it. the chairman and ranking democrat on the house select committee on intelligence, congressman mike turner of ohio and congressman jim himes of connecticut, thanks so much for doing this interview. we appreciate it. thank you, jake. thank you, jake. a new poll shows warning signs for both biden and trump. we ll dig into that next. plus is governor ron desantis looking to reset his campaign and could it work? my panel is here. stay with us.
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mccarthy is insisting that he will have the numbers but the moment he does not because the number of the members simply are not decided. yet they are still reviewing the details is 320 page bill released just yesterday, something that has been the product of negotiations internally among republicans for the past several weeks that would raise the national debt ceiling by $1.5. trillion of debt ceiling already at 31.4 trillion, including in that a range of conservative policy priorities and cuts across the board and domestic programs, including, including a adding a plan to block president biden s loan forgiveness program initiative that rescinding new funding for the internal revenue service was part of the democrats inflation reduction act that was enacted last congress would also boost new provide new work requirements for social safety net programs like medicaid. but even as including some of those provisions intended to appease conservatives, some conservatives are not there yet, e
has said absolutely no. two as they called on congress is simply raise the national debt limit without any conditions whatsoever, and i asked the senate majority leader chuck schumer, how they would approach this next week. if the house does, in fact, approve a bill the republican bill along party lines, he told me they will not change their stance. and he said, everything stays the same. no brinksmanship. no hostage taking clean, clean clean, meaning he believes that debt ceiling must be increased without any conditions, something that speaker mccarthy has rejected for months and fill the white house president biden . they ve been clear that they re not going to negotiate with republicans on this, but now that they ve seen a plan has the administration changed its stance in any way. i mean, there is the plan right there. some degree of the short answer is no and to some degree, they have only hardened in their position. they have leveled no shortage of attacks at very specific element