starts now. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us, tragedy in ukraine today. a helicopter tumbling out of the sky in a kyiv suburb killing a child and the most senior member of ukraine s government to die in this war. ten hours ago a tragedy happened near kyiv. a helicopter crashed contemplating the lives of the minister of internal affairs of ukraine. plus, the new republican majority rewards misfits and liars with key policy roles. a swindler, firebrand and provocateur who defended kanye and serial election deniers get committee house assignments. cnn investigation found joe biden s son and brothers cashed in on the family name. a turbulent moment in ukraine s war of survival. just moments ago ukraine s president asking world leaders kong get gated in davos for a minute of silence to mark a he crashed rocking a kyiv suburb. the smoke and flames from that crash visible for miles. pieces of helicopt
our taxpayer money and made their bed so they must lie in it. begin, it ignores the spending. where was biggs during the trump years when they also, joe biden would argued he lowered it more than trump has and would be right. in the biden white house they don t want to negotiate the debt ceiling. they think that s wrong but do they understand they ll have to have some side negotiation over here to get what they need? it s possible but right now the word i m getting from the white house is we are not going to touch this discussion. we will not engage in any kind of discussion with republicans that is tied to the debt ceiling and i think that s where they ll stay because they do have a realization they believe the politics of this are on their side and believe that if we do head to a default situation republicans are the ones who catch the blame. one other thing they re watching how does mcconnell handle it. what influence can he bring to bear? 2011 when we downgraded our credit, didn
in, expanding medicare, making it a certain thing that seniors have hearing and have vision and have dental. and also, being able to negotiate prescription drug prices which, you know, erin, that is very, very popular out in the real world to be able to have that, to be able to lower drug prices for people. the fact that he doesn t feel like he is going to get that right now, there clearly has to be another side negotiation or discussion going on about how he can get that elsewhere if it doesn t happen here because it s not just his vote, it is his stance on this that matters in terms of votes and also matters in terms hof how this is going e to be looked upon by democrats. it s more spending, it s more pay fors which is a whole separate can of worms right now. dana, thank you very much. i want everyone to know dana has a new special report exploring the real impact of lies about election fraud. don t miss stop the vote, the big lie s assault on democracy.
just what we needed another sub plot. the reid-mcconnell battle. harry reid does not like hearing that mitch mcconnell is doing an end run around his reid s leadership vice president biden. so in general, i expect we ll hear a maneuver from harry reid to make his effort to find a compromise the more important one. and if he doesn t think he has the votes, it could be delaying the vote we re anticipating at 1:00 a.m., it could be some alteration in the plan or in the bill itself. i m not sure. but to put his plan back at center stage and not this kind of side negotiation between mcconnell and biden. michael, right now, though, what are the options that senator reid has? especially if he doesn t have the votes needed to get there at 1:00 a.m.. well, i agree with gene, of course.