it s the mirror image in terms of partisan control in washingtons right? now we have democratic president joe biden who is in his first year as president. in the 2020 elections last year, democrats secured narrow majorities in both the house and the senate. and just like september 2017, once again, it is time to do that thing that we have been doing since world war i. once again it is time to take that dumb vote to, a, keep the government funded so avoid a government shutdown, and also raise the debt ceiling in order to placate the ghosts of the austria-hungarian empire. if we don t do it, real problems, high prices, self-inflicted wound. it is time to do that again. and this time it s democrats in control. republicans say they won t do it.
president, republicans in that same election also secured the votes in the house. and that trifecta of republican control, set all kind of things in motion. some of which were definitely not recovered from. yet but one problem they did not have, the first year of the donald trump was president. they didn t have a problem around raising the stupid that ceiling. this time, four years ago, democrats are out of power in the white house, they are in the minority of both houses of congress. but nevertheless september 2017, democrats agreed. they voted to pass the spending bill that kept the government from shutting down. and in that bill they agreed to raise the debt ceiling. september 2017 past of the senate and the house by by overwhelming margins. not a single democrat voted no in the senate. not a single democrat voted no in the house. even though there was a republican controlled congress,
so we re confident that this is going to get done. it s absolutely unspeakable, unthinkable that we would allow the federal government to default on the obligations that it has already made. i d say two things, the first is it s important we go back in very recent history. this month four years ago september 2017, you had a president controlling both parties of congress, and they came together, passed a bipartisan short-term funding bill that included disaster relief and a short-term extension of the debt limit. democrats right at that moment were fighting the signature legislation of that president. that was when donald trump was pushing his tax cut bill through reconciliation. and yet democrats came together because it s their responsibility to put votes on the debt ceiling. we have seen this done in a bipartisan way consistently, and the best way to do this is without a lot of drama, without a lot of self-inflicted harm to the economy and to our country. and that s what we re goin
i don t know if she was capable of even being able to discharge that kind of weapon. the only two people who know what happened in that house, charlie and his mother, have stayed mom all this time. neither was ever interviewed by police, neither have spoken publicly. people will say this is a kid who killed his father and got off. people will also say no it isn t. they couldn t prove. you have two groups of people who say, i don t care what happened, i m never sending this 19-year-old cornell student. prison the mom and brother are running the company jim tan started. as for, charlie is the okay? yes he seems ok. he s very positive. he s a great kid, a smart student, a very popular kid who s done well in succeeded in all things he s been in. and it s time to move on. we all welcome him with open arms. but that didn t happen. the authorities were not done with charlie. he had been living back in canada, but when he tried to cross into the united states to attend a friends we
i will say that. i do think it s part of it. governor pawlenty, thank you for joining us this morning. you re welcome. john? terrific conversation about the divisions in the country. we talked about coronavirus and how case rates are rising and how that s a concern. but there is an interesting element in some of the polling we ve seen the last few days, which is if you ask people how they are doing, how their lives are, by some measurements they say great, like historically fantastic. here to discuss, cnn s senior data reporter, harry eton. good news. something completely different. how about that for a change? look at this. gallup poll. look at this number in june of 2021. 59%. that is the highest that gallop has ever asked it. the previous high was 57% in september 2017. we are beating that.