Warrants . The concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and The Information that shouldved been given and wasnt given. And the question being what was the intent . What what washa their intention . Their motivation there. And what we determined was we couldnt definitively say what the motivation was. Are these pretty smart people . Fairly welleducated . At least welleducated. I dont know if theyre smart. I dont know if were very smart to beow honest with you. I was b going to say they have law degrees, right . At least somehe of them do. So you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. To be clear, the stuff that didnt happen on the woods review was basic stuff. Yeah. You didnt need to be a deeplyexperienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. Well, thats my point. So wouldnt you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obligation to go through that . They clear
substance. the key point of contention is spending levels. republicans want to cut spending. the white house is offering to freeze spending. as these negotiations have dragged on, we have seen both the left and right flanks starting to pressure biden and mccarthy respectively. you have skconservatives who ar saying the june 1st deadline isn t even real. they re warning mccarthy against cutting a deal that relies on democratic votes. a so you start to get a sense of the real challenges that biden and mccarthy are facing as they try to hammer out this deal that has the support of enough members in both parties. mel, thank you for that report. i want to get to phil mattingly who is covering the white house perspective on all of this. phil, we ve been talking to economic experts who say, yeah, you may be looking at that june 1st, quote, unquote, deadline, but these next 24 to 48 hours are crucial for how much time
making sure that we are holdin us to account on those sam issues that young people are marching on, are fighting for. all right categorical support as you saw there from the first to. and then, when you listen to representative lee, a little bit of well i support th party. , don how do you interpret wha you said and which respons reflects the majority whethe publicly are behind the scenes especially given the polling numbers are shared at the top. even with representativ lees deviation, but not really deviation there, what we are seeing is three members of the house. these are investors in the democratic party, who ar saying that they wil ultimately support the president. will support the democrati nominee, who will be joe biden at the end of the day, there will not be substantia democratic support to galvaniz behind anybody but joe biden but i see what summerlea i doing there. she is signaling t progressives that we will hold him accountable, then we wil make sure that he is doing
the governor continues to veto bills. we ll see if those vetoes ca be sustained, but the only answer now for the people of kansas is actually getting som new legislators in 2024, makin sure that legislators follow the will of the people i think that s exactly what ha to happen in congress. we need members of congress to step up and say, we will protect women s reproductive health we will protect a women s righ to choose. and codify it across the country. it s that likely to happe in this kind of congress is it the kind of thing that democrats have to campaign o and hope that they take back control of congress in order t get on i don t see it that s eeril happening in today s mixed congress with a republican house and a very slim majority in the senate. i think it can be a robust campaign issue for, during the presidential race and fo members of the senate who ar on the ballot, and every membe of the house
cannot even find a slot. those are issues of enormous consequence, we don t talk about. you tell me, you ve got thre people on top today who ar more wealth in the bottom half of american society. is that an issue we should b talking about? does that sound that we have a economy that works for all o us, or just a few? is that an issue we re discussing we are talking about it now senator, so happy to have yo on i did want to ask you sir, about president biden nomination julie su for th labor department secretary all right but i want to, tw and a lob julie, i love juli we re gonna do our best to get let s talk about income an wealth inequality. let s talk about concentration of ownership, let s talk about corporate ownership of the media. do you think those are issue were discussing? well senator to have you on today, we re having conversation about all of thes issues i did want to ask you abou this, because you are chair of this committee, it is importan to labor secretary in pl