welcome to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton here ahead on cnn newsroom. we put the citizens of america first. we didn t do it by taking the easy way. u.s. house speaker kevin mccarthy taking a victory lap after the house passes a bill to raise the debt ceiling but it s liz leadership now in jeopardy. plus one of our show s most decorated soldiers loses a defamation case against several newspapers. we will go live to sydney for the latest. no letup and russian airstrikes on kyiv. there s been a another overnight missile attack on ukraine capitol. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with paula newton. so it hasn t been easy but the hard-fought deals to suspend the u.s. debt ceiling and not a catastrophic default is now headed to the senate this bite weeks of handling and hanging, it clear the house. but you know it was a comfortable bipartisan margin? more than 300 voting yay at 117 nays. conservativ
were debating it true grand bargain that had everything on the table and would have had a material long term impact on the u.s. fiscal picture. here are the republicans ruled out the pentagon changes, and they ruled out anything to do with our large entitlement programs, which are the principal driver of increased spending. and so you were left arguing about a relatively small slice of the federal budget, the kinds of things you would argue about in a normal appropriations process. and against that, you had the guillotine of unprecedented debt default. so, i think everybody felt kind of soiled at the end. you have put that so well, ron. because we do all feel soiled at this point. you just have to go through the senate. it likely will be fine there. if we take speaker mccarthy, and president biden, political winds winds for both? yeah. in the sense that the alternative was catastrophic. it s not clear we really had to go through this, except that mccarthy had that he was standi
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welcome back to morning joe. 43 past the hour. we are joined by political columnist for bloomberg news and editor for the week magazine, margaret carlson. good to have you on board. good morning. hello, hello. let s start with a couple of op-eds. people are talking about the winds of change sweeping across great britain. they may who knows, they may come west. let s start with mark penn in the washington post from the u.s. to the uk, new political winds but if the deficit continues to mushroom, health care festers and the economy nose-dives for a second time, the growth of new parties and movements would be hastened. it may not happen in 2012 but one of the next three presidential elections is likely to feature a major new player under a new banner. you know, david broder struck the same note in the washington post, mika. let s read that. two countries, one looming political test. but these are not normal times. the ranks of the disaffected have exploded over propos