for healing and justice. how does memphis move forward? and the pressure cooker on american teens s college admissions season kicks into high gear. the only thing that could matter to parents and families right now. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. and it is on, the president and house speaker going one-on-one to talk raising the debt ceiling. before the u.s. default on its debt for the first time ever, which, of course, if it did would mean economic disaster. president biden wants to raise the limit without any conditions while speaker mccarthy and house republicans say there will be no increase without spending cuts. the speaker spent more than an hour with the president at the white house. this afternoon mccarthy said this about that meeting. we both laid out some of our vision of where we want to get to, and i believe after laying it all out, i can see where we can find common ground. there is nothing
how does memphis move forward? and the pressure cooker on american teens as college admissions season kicks into high gear. the only thing that could matter to parents and families right now. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. and it is on, the president and house speaker going one-on-one to talk raising the debt ceiling. before the u.s. default on its debt for the first time ever, which, of course, if it did would mean economic disaster. president biden wants to raise the limit without any conditions while speaker mccarthy and house republicans say there will be no increase without spending cuts. the speaker spent more than an hour with the president at the white house. this afternoon mccarthy said this about that meeting. we both laid out some of our vision of where we want to get to, and i believe after laying it all out, i can see where we can find common ground. there is nothing there of me walking awa
though, at least among democrats, that republicans aren t actually serious about cutting the deficit and that the case in point, they point to there, is that the first vote that republicans took when there was finally as speaker mccarthy was to eliminate billions of dollars a virus funding that would add to the deficit 100 billion dollars. so i think that biden held his line, that the debt ceiling needs to be raised, no conditions, no matter what. mccarthy holding his line, but the concessions that ultimately are going to be made, the devil will be in those details. let s share a bit more of what kevin mccarthy said on fox news tonight. watch this. we only have two choices. either responsibility or reckless spending. i know where the american people want to. goes for the president who said he wasn t going to negotiate with me, we talked for more than an hour, gave both perspectives. i thought they were prospect. folders times we ve had big differences.
republicans insist that joe biden is getting special treatment that donald trump didn t get. can you underscore again why these cases are so different and specifically how president biden s response to things are so different from donald trump? it really comes down to a word, stephanie. it s not overly complex cooperation. mr. trump s refused to cooperate. he didn t respond to a request. he didn t fully respond to a subpoena, and so the fbi ultimately had to get a federal judge to authorize a search warrant of his mar-a-lago home pursuant to the fourth amendment. contrast that with what mr. biden, he had to be embarrassed by the fact that he has classified information in all east places. but that said, he has cooperated with the department of justice and has voluntarily permitted the fbi into his home to locate more of it by cooperating, by not obstructing their investigation.
for almost a total of four hours. the president s attorneys said the search was done without a warrant and with the presidents full cooperation. he also said, quote, no documents with classified markings were found and that the agents to take some materials handwritten notes related to biden s time as vice president. this is the third fbi search of a location connected to create a president. it did come on the day special counsel robert hur is officially taking over. we re also learning the fbi is investigating, guess who? new york congressman george santos. the bureau is looking into allegations santos stole thousands of dollars from a gofundme account that was designed to cover lifesaving surgery for a veterans dying service dog. santos s office did not immediately respond to our request for comment. the congressman has called these accusations shocking insane. with that, let s get smarter with a lead off panel.