heinrich starts us off tonight. good evening, jacqui. good evening, mike. today in a background call about these documents, the white house counsel s office at one point encouraged reporters to look into the secret deals kevin mccarthy made to be secret speaker of the house. sums up the posture of this administration and the information blackout that we are getting right now. come on, guys. reporters didn t hear from the president s lawyers today. but the white house brought the golden state warriors to the brady briefing room. good afternoon, everybody. and the press secretary. i have been forthcoming from this podium. and, yet, most questions directed at karine jean-pierre went unanswered. reporters repeatedly referred to the white house counsel s office which had made an adviser, not a lawyer, available just an hour earlier. referring reporters to the department of justice and the president s personal attorney. we have within trying to answer questions thor
outrage on this issue. why shouldn t americans be outraged about classified documents being found in a garage. you have heard as phil was saying twice from the president talk about this. he said that he didn t know, right? he said that he was surprised. from what we hear the president goes out and talks to the american people, they also care about the economy. mike: as a guy who worked in a republican white house, your thoughts on how they are handling this controversy at the current white house? she is so bad at her job. i mean, this is a constantly the worst white house press secretary i have seen in my lifetime. she is terrible. people are also concerned about the economy. they just spent months telling us that donald trump was the most irresponsible person in the world for having classified documents at mar-a-lago. and the new york times literally made a 3-d model where can you go to the new york times web page and show search where the documents were and how close they w
mike: you are a smart guy, northwestern grad. we have a republican speaker with a thin majority. we have got democrats running the senate. a democrat in the white house. what s realistic? great question. first realistic thing is recognizing given how this town typically works use these so-called extraordinary measures to push this football or punt it into june, we won t have serious conversations about this until like mid may. right? why do something too far in advance in washington, d.c. even though technically we are hitting the limit i think any day now. i think what the republicans need to remember is the last time they successfully extracted some concessions on this front, came back in the obama administration when they had a united front and a relatively reasonable ask. right now we re at the opening bids portion of this whole game where the white house says no negotiations, clean or nothing. you ve got some house conservatives saying we need these seven things or we walk. an
car and xbox. we have said again and again we want to do that in a bipartisan way. and again and again would you keep doing that or change the behavior. used to say congress money drunken sailor. i received an email from a guy and it said as a former drunken sailor i resent being compared to members of congress. mike: stop me if you have heard this before it s almost time to raise the debt ceiling. the nation s debt is at $31 trillion and counting. every moment of every day and some are suggesting it s time to stop the insanity and maybe make some spending cuts. bring this our panel the washington post columnist marc thiessen, guy benson political editor at town hall.com and host of the guy benson snow on fox news sunday and seth with political reporter with axios. start us off. debt drama what are they going to do about it. all for cutting spending. debt limit have never gone well
make and i want to close by recognizing not only your service but also to remember those that have been lost as a consequence of extraordinary o reporting that they have done over recent weeks. they helped, too, to defend our freedoms and allow democracy to flourish. god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, we are very pleased to have with us tonight the head quiter of saturday night live, the anchor of weekend update and a fellow northwestern grad, mr. seth