welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. closer, but to a deal or to a default. kevin mccarthy herds a bill through the house. it s guaranteed to go nowhere in the united states senate and far from certain to break the white house s negotiating promise. plus, ament here because donald trump raped me. e..en jean carroll is back on the witness stand after detailing an attack by the former president nearly two decades ago in a dressing room. and the mouse strikes back. disney makes ron desantis a defendant as the governor finds the polling gap between him and trump getting wider. up up first, a cross roads moment for president biden and house republicans. today a new number says the country is growing more slowly. but not as to dive into a recession. 12.1%, that s how fast the economy expanded in the first quarter. it falls off as you see the breakneck pace from the end of 2022. but the good from the report is very go
at what point does the president s refusal to negotiate with the house leadership become unsustainable? again, what the president has said is he s happy to negotiate over the budget and the vision of the country. this is really not a complicated issue. they ought to pass a clean debt bill and get past that. in his view, it s not complicated. house republicans say we re not going to do that. the white house has tried to present this as some fringe in extremist republicans wanting to pursue this route. we heard last night mitt romney say, and he is certainly no extremist republican, say he thinks there needs to be a compromise on this issue. that s what you re hearing. you have someone mentioning democrats. you have joe manchin, who could be someone you d want to look at in this conversation as well. the president has made it clear that if they want to do anything on his agenda, those things are
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better when it comes to seniors, people on medicare, people with disabilities, but we were able to create efficiencies in medicare, beefed up the anti-fraud division of medicare, and cut billions of dollars, yes, we did, from medicare. they called it, i heard the clip you played, mitt romney say, funneled money out of medicare. no, that is not true. we made medicare for ç beneficiaries better. of course, the republicans confused the voters. and you saw that seniors voted by, you know, i don t know what the president is, more for the republicans. their campaign of confusion actually did work. but, chris, i think i read differently the boehner letter about the structural changes that they want to make, meaning the voucher system.
mitt romney, how much of it is genuine self-interest in the sense of, just something as simple as the amount of taxes they will pay? i would say all of it. i really would. i would say all of it. the banks have two choices. four years ago, they had the choice between barack obama and they knew exactly who he was going to appoint in terms of ben bernanke and timothy geithner, the combination of the team that had saved the world from utter financial collapse. and that s what they knew they needed. and john mccain, on the other hand, was running around like a headless chicken, and they were scared, they were petrified he would become president, especially with his vice presidential candidate. so they voted in their self-interest, because they knew that the system needed to be saved. now that the system is saved is, they just want to pay less taxes. that gets to this question of narrow self-interest versus broad self-interest. in the case of adelson, this is really important for people