every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that s 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware can. why is the university withholding the so-called gift agreement of the mystery funder of maintaining those documents? and did the money come from china after the ccp sent $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and was able to get penn to lobby for the china initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee chairman james comer told me recently. we i now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an inves
and we re going to sit down when i go back and look, is there a pathway forward. is there a pathway bipartisan and bicameral. not fighting it out, conferees and everything. hopefully, we can recognize that we have a runaway debt, we recognize we re all responsible. maria: and that was west virginia democrat senator joe manchin speaking with me last week on the need for a bipartisan solution to rein in the $345.5 35.5 trillion national debt. on wednesday he met with house speaker kevin mccarthy on raising the debt limit, a meeting that we first exclusively reported was scheduled to take place with manchin saying mccarthy promised there would be no cuts to social security or medicare. congress is facing an early june deadline when the treasury department says it will exhaust all of its options to avoid defaultingen on america s debt defaulting on america s debt. joining me now is utah senator mike lee. senator, it s good to see you. thanks very much.