the context of this deal is unusual. we re seeing a $10 million reduction in the $80 million that the biden administration put aside to expand the irs. at the same time, the democratic gain here is that the next debt ceiling fight would be after the presidential election. you can see the incentives for the biden administration and democrats in general in having that because republicans would want to use that as a negotiating tool and really a hostage-taking situation while on the campaign trail. look, honestly, i m a little surprised with what we re seeing right now. this is a deal that s shaping up where neither of the base sides of the republican or democratic parties are ecstatic, and that suggests that this is going to be something akin to a grand
helped tip the house into the majority. the thing to understand about discharge petitions is they almost never work. there s only been two instances in the last 23 years where a discharge petition has gotten enough votes to get to the floor. it s better as a negotiating tool to hold over republicans heads and say, look, if you guys don t get to a deal, and you don t get to a deal we think is tenable, we can force this issue. it doesn t solve the problem of how you pass a bill through the senate, it doesn t solve the second level issues of preventing a default. it is a good tool for democrats to remind republicans, hey, we ve got t theoretical options democratic senators say the president has the authority to do, they say he can negate a vote entirely, he alone can use the 14th amendment, his executive authority to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling. i know the president has heard about this. he was asked about it by one of
andrea, for his lawyers to be telling him right now, hang on, hang on by your finger nails, do not leave your position in the house of representatives. because we, your lawyers, are going to hope to use your sitting in that seat as a negotiating tool. you can say if you are the defense attorneys to the prosecutors, we will consider leaving, we will consider stepping down if you give us a better offer. i suspect representative santos isn t going to leave voluntarily until his lawyers are able to extract some kind of an exchange from the prosecutors. prosecutors would be wise not to pay attention to that kind of negotiating tool. you could call it the art of the deal, as someone once said. thank you very much rehema, ken, garrett and paul. the l word. an angry exchange between the speaker and the president at their first meeting about the debt ceiling. is this any way to resolve a crisis? you are watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. e tca mitchell reports on msnbc
we should do a joint cake. it d save some time. carrot cake? i don t know if i m invited. frank is inviting himself and wants a carrot cake, okay. it s his birthday. happy birthday, frank. thank you, frank. cnbc s frank holland. setting the menu, i like it. yeah. back to the debt ceiling, john. the white house posture has always been, we re not negotiating over this. this is something that happens every couple years, we do it, get it done. but speaking mccarthy s tact has been to use this as a negotiating tool. mika said, there s only eight days left, though it is a month off. eight days where the senate and the house are both around to get something done here. how does this end? the calendar is even shorter than that. first of all, mccarthy is overseas right now and will be another week or so. the president is about to get overseas. the middle of may, he is in asia and australia for more than a week. there aren t many days where the players are all going to be in
been alpha and omega of serbia s foreign policy, the unresolved kosovo dispute, more than anything else. you see, this is a live debate, one that brings serbs to the streets. an eu led process stalled for years has been reinvigorated, partly by the war in ukraine. but any solution would mean difficult compromises from all sides. recently, it led to fights inside parliament. this political turmoil leads us neatly to a final theory on russian influence, that it is used as a negotiating tool by the serbian government. if the west are scared of russia, and the local leadership convinces the west that they are the only one who can keep the russian presence in the country at a level that can be tolerated, then they can get political acquiescence from the west for their own regime s survival here. is there a point, though,