we have the unknown. the unknown is everything you ve been talking about. covid, what s going to happen with covid, what it will do to the economy. no one is talking about inflation or debt. reporter: manchin made his displeasure with all of this already known in the last several days but opposition certainly complicates the administration s timeline, their goal was to get this to the president s desk this fall. still, the white house believes manchin will eventually come around and support the effort. there are other things on congress plate for this month. there s concerns about the government running out of money, a possible government shutdown by end the end of the month and questions about when congress is going to raise the debt ceiling. we heard from press secretary jen psaki about this on friday. we continue to believe that democrats and republicans should do what they have done 80 times which is to raise the debt limit. that is what we re working toward. i m not going t
better in central america. here we re going to disagree. but you know who also won last night? the sent janarions bernie did not look like a man who had a heart attack last night. you watched the three of them, bernie, biden and warren, i don t know why anyone would look at that and say those people are too old. i think they did do themselves some good. we ll end with that saying oldies but goodies. coming up, mission impossible. the vice president and secretary of state set to leave for turkey in just a few hours. but conflicting reports on whether they re going to actually meet with the turkish president after erdogan said this morning he would only talk to president trump. now, not so fast. but first, another member of president trump s inner circle refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena in the impeachment inquiry. so, how s that going to play out when nancy pelosi heads to the white house? it s tough to quit smoking cold turkey.
despite constant claims otherwise from the president. with the north korea summit on the line, the secretary of state set to meet with north korea s former spy chief on the ground in new york. welcome back to early start, i m dave briggs. busy it is, especially for roseanne, still tuiweeting this hour. i m christine romans. stunning fall for one of hollywood s most successful comedy comebacks. roseanne fired and her sitcom canceled by abc after she went on this racist twitter rant. network executives woke up this morning woke up yesterday to this muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby, v.j. valerie jarrett, african-american adviser to president obama. another tweet re-tweeted by donald trump jr., roseanne wrote that liberal billionaire philanthropist george soros is a nazi who turned in fellow jews
freshman senator from arkansas. we are making sure iran s leaders understand if congress doesn t approve a deal congress won t accept a deal we are committing to stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon. all of this comes with secretary of state set to resume talks in switzerland sunday with iran s foreign minister who dismissed the letter as quote, mostly a propaganda ploy. joining me robert zimmerman and senior political reporter for politico. to both of you, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. robert start with your perspective. new york daily news blasted gop senators calling them traitors. one word there, strong word. is that going too far? i never like to use the word traitor. i think it is going too far, but worth noting when you have a coalition of editorial board of the wall street journal, which is opposed to any deal the president is negotiating, or you have the daily news opposed to iran negotiated deal as well between allies and the united