also warned that a ukrainian defeat in back mud will embolden russian president vladimir putin . meanwhile president zelensky visited the sunni region in northern ukraine, including a city where russian forces shelled a kindergarten in the early days of the war. he s also traveled to areas around back mud separate asia, cipro and her son in recent days in scotland clean joins me now for more on all of this, scott is there any scenario in which president xi s interests align with the lenski is here in terms of outcomes of this invasion? i think maybe i mean, this sort of seems to be a test what president zelensky said in this interview with the associated press of china s willingness to be a neutral broker, which is how it s tried to present itself. in this whole conflict, though china hasn t actually called the russian invasion of ukraine and invasion , so president zelensky says look, he wants to speak with president xi. he wants him to come to kiev. he says that the two leaders haven
cut and balance which will go nowhe nowhere. they ll run a bill on debt prioritization. there will be a raising of the debt ceiling. the question is will it happen before or after a catastrophic event? i hope it s before. you ll end up with something close to a clean debt ceiling. that s where it s going to go. you ve been through this, joe before. they want $100 billion. let s say kevin mccarthy gets $50 billion. a lot of guys voting for this won t vote for the debt ceiling anyway. we re having a discussion about this new poll that came out. nearly three quarters of americans, 73%, think house gop leaders haven t paid attention to the most important problems.
deception we ve seen, there s no reason to believe we re at the bottom. that there are almost certainly going to be further revelations. and the money, where his resources came from, this radical increase in income and these loans to the campaign. but also in the detailed new york times reporting all sorts of questionable spending, a lot on travel and expenses, a lot put one penny below the cutoff for what you have to provide receipts. so a lot of questions where he was getting his money and what he was doing with it. and the republican leaders haven t wanted to talk about this. it s hard to imagine they can sweep it all under the rug. i should note his attorney has spoken out. he said they talked about the campaign expenditures saying they were for staff. he said, you know, the suggestion that the santos campaign engaged in any irresponsible spending is ludicrous. but when you look at the numbers here. during his campaign, santos spend $30,000 on hotels.
state. the republicans aren t in charge. and they say we ve done something. we ve doled out 100 million dollars. 50 million of which were ballistic shield. we had plenty of ballistic shields and kevlar and long guns and everything else. and we needed $150 worth of break. and the fact is we needed everything that was going to go into that room. and yet the leaders haven t fixed the basic problem in texas which is access to guns. the common denominator here is young men having access to militarized weaponry. and this governor because he is so lost in his own ambition. refuses to attack the basic thing. so it says to the public. i guess that he doesn t care about us. texas state senator gutierrez. thank you very much for joining us again tonight. we really appreciate it. thank you lawrence. tonight s last word is next! t word is next
nearly $1500 this year alone and take 100 billion out of the hands of middle class families each year. do you think senator scott campaigning on his own plan that republican leaders haven t endorsed is hurting the party politically, congressman? look, we like good ideas within the party, and then we kind of shake it out; right? it sounds like a pretty good plan to me. we will take a look at it. i think, sandra, you are correct. we need to be unified in our platform. what we re doing in the house is very different from the senate. senate runs around like rogue, you know, operators. we have a plan. kevin mccarthy and i after my china task force recommendations, we are setting up task forces on every issue facing the american people that will be announced in august, with, you know, a specific plan of action and legislative plan of action. we don t want power for power sake. we want power to change the course of this country, against biden s failed policies.