so agitated. the reality of it is, that could be a problem if they find a lane to scuttle this process towards getting this deal done. what should the white house be concerned about at this stage? or is this mostly a kevin mccarthy problem? it s an everyone problem, really. everyone wants to avoid default. i wouldn t, i don t know that everybody is on the same team. whatever that even means. but at this point, they have a deal in principle. they ve agreed they want to move forward with it. now, what they need to do is cobbled together enough votes to do that. they are not going to get every democrat. they re not going to get every republican. do they have enough of the majority to get this deal passed? that is really the question. a lot of the people who are working on this are old enough to remember back in 2008. d enoughwhen tarp failed the pan congress. that was during the height of the financial crisis. it s not like something like
there are 18 democrats, 18 republicans in the house who won in biden districts. you can see that those members of congress will actually, you know, will not necessarily hurt them, or might hurt them but they could make the excuse that they are in biden districts. if you get enough of the very moderate democrats, or even more progressive democrats, there is no evidence that look, we don t know what their work requirements are. that s going to be the thing that gets a lot of progressives. and a lot of more moderate democrats upset. but i think you d have enough of a critical mass of people who do not want the united states economy to crush, and to go into default. and to possibly go into a recession, that i think they re going to vote for it. in the senate, you have the numbers to. i think really the question was, there had been this discharge petition and a lot of talk about that. but you couldn t get it on the floor, unless mccarthy wanted
negotiating teams will finalize legislative text. and the agreement will go to the united states house and senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass the agreement right away. jen, your reaction? it sounds like the president was pretty much what you were just saying. i did work for him for a while. i would say, michael, that yes. they have been really projecting this. this is of course not all the things that they want. this shouldn t be where congress is or where the country is. dozens and dozens of times over the course of time that you ve been in politics, and i ve been in politics, congress, democrats and republicans under democratic and republican presidents have raised the debt limit. including three times under president trump? right former president trump, which kevin mccarthy voted for all three of those times. this should not be a negotiating sticking point, raising the debt limit. but at the same time, or in the reality we are in, because it s such a narrow margin in co
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speaker mccarthy, and the leadership of the house, the republican conference, walking through what mccarthy, again, just verbally, what the deal is. in principle, and taking questions. is our understanding. i don t think msnbc, i don t think we have someone currently on that call. there are other reporters who are hearing from republicans on that call. i ve been hearing from democrats who have been hearing from some of the republican colleagues on that call. they ve a lot of questions. what i ve heard from democratic members of congress, and people who are directly with direct knowledge of what is in the agreement, is this. democrats are looking forward, democratic members of congress are looking forward to the call tomorrow at five piano eastern standard time. that call will be later on tomorrow because by that time it is expected that there will be actual text of the bill. the text is very important, because that is what they will vote on. speaker mccarthy is walking through our deal