the deal sent spinning numbers for the next two years. major demand for democrats that led to shutdown, promise to protect dreamers, young immigrants brought illegally into this debris as children. with me now from capitol hill, congressman meeks democrat from new york. also a member of the black caucus. good to have you back. good to be with you, brooke, as always. yes or no, are you willing to consider this spending bill without any daca solution in it? i m going to look at it. the devil is always in the details. i think we have to find a daca solution. clearly, congress has not done that. barack obama, when he was the president, found a solution, since congress wouldn t do t we had a solution. this president broke that solution. i think it s incumbent upon this president to work to fix that
you know what? you don t play the same game they are. they are not. the best way to counter what the republicans are doing would be to come out with a website that works. come out with a program that works the way you promised. be honest with the american people from the beginning. not inflating the numbers they are putting out now and spinning numbers. would be to lead. you re right. the republican party, it s not there s no saints here. no saints anywhere in washington. that s problem. where are the adults in the room? decisive action is what s needed here. by the way, decisive action is taking down the website. delaying it six months and saying this but you know what? we re not interested in the first six months we re interested in the first 60 years. we ll take this back not to use an overused military analogy but i m going to use an overused military analogy because it s one of the greatest analogies
two is burning. the state does not have enough resources to deal with the problem. the swollen potomac river threatened to take this kayaker to her death. rescuers were not going to let that happen. one of several rescues after a weekend of heavy rain. an online dating site says it will check to see if members are sex offenders. one member s lawsuit might have inspired that change. we are talking to her about her experience later this hour. a sobering sign of our times. the nation s debt clock. the spinning numbers in the upper left is how much money we owe. more than $14 trillion. another $2.5 million shovelled on to that mountain of bills. president obama will try to deal with that as he tries to sell his plan on making washington live within its budget. he is kicking off a three-day debt and tax tour. tomorrow, he is going to try something new.
the spinning numbers in the upper left. you ll see that. that s how much debt we owe. more than $14 trillion, and every minute another $2.5 million is shoveled on to that mountain of debt. this morning, president obama will try to sell his plans to make washington live within its budget. he s kicking off a three-day debt and tax tour at a communities college in virginia. kate bould wan, he s heading to the campaign trail to see if he can sell his ideas to the american people, right? reporter: absolutely. and it s much like what the president did in trying to sell his health care proposal, you ll remember. taking his message druktsly to the american people, the taxpayer the voters. the president the town hall format which the president will be taking part in today as well as the next few days has long before known as one of the places where the president is most comfortable in this more casual setting, answering questions from participants that are there. the tagline that we re hear
hour. president obama will announce new efforts to tackle the record national debt. right now, the government say it is debt is projected to rise to $14 trillion. hard to wrap your head around that number, right? well, if you re counting, it comes up to about $46,000 for every man, woman and child in america. all right. now that doesn t make your head spin, check thought site. usdebtclock.org with a realtime look at the nation s money, look at it. tough to sort through but when you do and add up the spinning numbers, liability comes out the nearly can you see tlit? $350,000 per every citizen. $350,000. there it is. nbc s mike viqueira live at the white house where i m hoping, mike, you left your checkbook at home. we re not collecting on that right now. reporter: i have a debit card. the president is expected any moment now to announce a new commission on fiscal