Nato are popular, but some of the trade policies and other policies internationalist policies that biden has backed in the past may not be sochlt that s going to be an important debate in next year s general lek. i don t know how it plays in the primary. but to the extent that any time trump has attacked biden, it has raised biden s stach chur with democratic voters. he just did that again. and one mistery and it remains a mystery, but the president did comment on the mysterious sudden cansen lagz mike pence had to take. he canceled the trip as he was at the airport before he left and the president seemed to give something. the vice president was even on the plane and they called off the trip last minute, which sparked a lot of confusion here at the white house. we asked the president why was that trip canceled so abruptly, something that is incredibly rare. and the president said we ll
Clearances. we don t address them. acknowledge, or refute any of the reporting you are referencing. and frankly we can t comment beyond that. so the question here though, and this is crucial when you talk about the white house and what all of you are doing, jared kushner is at the center of that. he s one of the top people in the white house, senior adviser, son-in-law, you heard the president among several of many comments, he has said glowingly of jared, tasked with peace in the middle east, working with china, mexico, one of the people who reads the top secret presidential brief every single day. jared kushner is at the center, raj, many sof some of the biggest decisions affecting americans right now. he can t do his job without the top security clearance sochlt what will happen to him now? again, i m not going to address your speculation. what ile say you mentioned a number of statements. i ll tell you one more from over a week ago in which the chief of staff said pursuant to m
Out. on top of it you add add tax cut for some americans. that is a lot of money entering the system. it is causing inflation fears that in part have spookd the market. now traditional policy would say don t give a tax cut when wages are waiving you save that when things slow down. is the trump administration adding fuel to the fire at exactly the wrong time? it s a terrific question, erin. and the answer is no. but again i think that it s interesting to go back to last week. and the best news we got last week was that wage growth in the employment report was up 2.9% year-over-year which is the highest rate we have seen in about a decade sochlt that was really good wage news and one of the things that got people to wondering is inflation getting out of control. but the fact is that this tax cut is supply side tax cut. it s causing a boom in capital spending. and as people who have done kpleks know when have you a supply side tax cut and stimulus
Need determine support and votes which is where they think they have leverage but they do control the path forward. there s a huge trust deficit, of course, between democrats and republicans and republicans and their own leadership. so it makes sense for democrats to want some kind of assurance but what that looks like remains to be seen. you can t really write into the legislation that we need a vote for mcconnell and also from the house which is a whole other enterprise entirely. this is 100% about trust this morning. democrats want to feel like they can trust mitch mcconnell esintention here. they don t trust the white house. they don t know where the white house is on the negotiation and that s what democrats are wrestling with as we speak when they go behind closed doors in the next hour or sochlt they re also facing these attacks from the administration directly. we see the president attacking them on twitter this morning and we saw this ad, this remarkable ad from the presiden
Sochlt itso it s a threat but it kind of underscores the pieces here. the fact this is coming to this at this time is very frustrating to republican leaders, so that s where we are. it s a standoff, it s people digging into their own sides and right now there is no clear resolution forward which is 35 hours left, johphil. thanks for that reporting. joining us cnn s abby phillips, bloomberg times. one year in, we re about to get to one year of the trump presidency, but this morning, hours after this critical vote when the speaker is not sure he has enough votes to keep the government open, and anyone out there who is a republican and thinks the democrats will get all the blame, that s just crazy. you have a republican president, republican senate, republican house. republicans will get some of the blame, if not most of the blame if the government shuts down. the president tweeted out it s a