anderson, thank you. matt gaetz, he single handedly held up kevin mccarthy s election as speaker, you ll recall. well, tonight, he s threatening to do it again in a new battle on capitol hill. and he s here. i m michael smerconish. live from new york city on the day that president joe biden asks americans for another four years, the nation is at risk of a potential economic disaster. thanks to partisan and interparty politics in washington, the u.s. is scheduled to default on its debt as early as june. something that s never happened before. and if the nation defaults, that means massive job losses, almost assures a recession. federal benefits, like social security are at risk. interest rates, what you pay on your house, your car, your college loan, they all skyrocket. the stock market, it tumbles, drag with it your 401(k)s. i know what you re thinking. michael, come on. we have seen the movie before and we know how it ends. they re going to figure it out. just before t
whether they begin in fiscal year 2024. i don t want to lose everybody in the weeds, versus fiscal year 2025. it seems like you re tinkering at the margins. welfare to work should be a corner stone of these negotiations. bill clinton and newt gring rich can make welfare to work deals. we should make those with joe biden. any feature of this deal is sincere, it will start immediately. the oldest trick in washington is to delay things two, three, five years down the road to tell the voters that you believe in them but to get the spending now and the cuts delayed. i m not falling for that trick. my colleagues who put conditions on speaker mccarthy are not going to fall for that trick. and let me answer the question you asked in your monologue, absolutely. features of the deal that allowed kevin mccarthy to ascend to the speakership require him to fight on top line spending levels in this debt limit battle and to not delay that for the appropriations process that
article three of the impeachment proceedings, obstruction of justice. and newt gingrich voted for that. so i m not sure how you can be a sitting congressman and speaker of the house voting for articles of impeachment which passed through, as we know. bill clinton acquitted in the senate. but now you voted articles of obstruction of justice against the president, you can obstruct justice. let me say one other thing. many have said, and i disagree from a legal perspective, that the president can fire a special prosecutor. he would have to order, that is president trump, the attorney general to do so. the attorney general recused himself. so we may see another recusal in rod rosenstein, so we may see ms. brand, if she takes over. so what if she resigns? this could get rather messy. rosenstein said he would only fire if there is cause. let s play for you what newt
look at people under consideration for these top slots and see rudy giuliani pushed aside while donald trump talks to someone like mitt romney and to see ronna romney as donald trump s pick to be the next rnc chairperson over governor chris christie who sounded like he was interested in the job and now left out in the cold as donald trump build his team for the national committee that will support him. rudy giuliani joins a list of very high profile supporters like chris christie or mike huckabee or newt gring rich but not going to be serving directly in this incoming administration. sara, thanks for that report. more on that coming up. not now to a huge story we re following. a full review today ordered by president obama, russian interference of the u.s. election. jim, what s behind the white
newt gring gingrich used that cycle. i think one of the things, given the focus on national security issues, giving to quus on what happened in paris and then san bernardino, i think people are going to want something serious to be said about those issues. and i think somebody benefit from it if they had something responsible, meaningful, that sounlgded like you were ready to be, you know, commander in chief. that would somebody would be helped by that. that finding that moment with nine players on that stage is really tough. i think that s a reality. it s such a big field. how do you find that moment? it s a challenging task. bill, as the democrat at the table, what s the best possible outcome of a democrat s point of view from tomorrow s from tuesday s debate? well, you know, i put one caveat, this may be, you know, just wishing for something you may not want but, trump, i mean,