brink of default. we re going to come together. because there is no alternative. everybody is working hard. the president ends his overseas trip with no deal in sight. is there still time to avoid economical amity. plus it is go time. i think in florida we showed what it takes to not just win, win big and then deliver big. desantis is finally set to announce his 2024 run but does he have what it takes to topple the front-runner. and hbo election nightmare. with 100,000 milwaukee absentee missing, every vote must be counted. the question succession viewers are asking, could it happen in real life? welcome to inside politics and i m abby phillip. with this morning, with as few as 11 days to go until a possible default, the full faith and credit of the united states till hanging very much in the balance. earlier this morning, during a news conference wrapping his trip to the g7 summit in japan, president biden called once again for republicans to move
this counting electors required in states to send electors for the candidates who actually won and bans a retroactive change over rules when it comes to governing elections. those seem like pretty common sense reforms to me. but here s the thing, only nine republicans, yes, nine republicans in the house voted for that bill. perhaps unsurprisingly all of those lawmakers are set to leave congress next year. in the end, 203 republicans voted against a bill that was aimed at protecting and strengthening our democracy. over in the senate pennsylvania s patrick me one of the many soon-to-be gop retirees has signed on to his chamber s version of the bill as a cosponsor, he becomes a tenth republican to do so which means that if all democrats and independents sign on, they have enough votes to beat the usually fatal filibuster. there is no cause for celebration just yet, both chambers still have to work out some key differences in their bills before anything gets to the presidents de
sort of jams that narrative up and here is why. the first request for prechb r prechb race of records came from congress on january 16. the email migration happened on january 27th. and our understanding is that they were told in december and then again on january 25th how to preserve those records, that if they were going to do it, they would need to do it themselves. basically one of these emails made that you might get at your own office from your chief information officer saying we re moving to a new system, so you are going to upload your documents, you have to do it yourself. right now the secret service again continues to say, look, we re doing everything that we can to rectify this. so for example, they have handed over about 10,000 records to the house select committee. they have this cover letter explaining what they are trying to do to rectify the situation and what they can expect to see in this 10,000 records. they also say that they are continuing to do this for
Sh issue. First time they have r had interesting way to take over the magazine. That does it for me. Hardball starts now. Crime and punishment. Lets play hardball. Today Paul Manafort, the president s campaign. Facing years in a u. S. Prison. Whatever you choose to call it, it is past. For a year and a half our country has been contorted into a reality tv show. This is the day we discovered
reality bites. Good evening, i am chris matthews. Heading into round one now. Investigation is underway at a courthouse just across the potomac. He is facing 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. Charges that predate his time on the Trump Campaign. If found guilty, he could get up to ten years in prison. Facing similar charges in Federal Court in washington. Manafort joined the Trump Campaign in march of 2016. Manafort did work overseas. He also had Business Ties with russia. And he took part in that Infamous Trump tower meeting with russians. Where the Trump Campaign was promis promised damaging
They re wrong. but the reason why i followed up with him is because he left open the possibility that there was something they could do. my understanding is that was not going on behind the scenes so i asked him this. take a listen. we have not come up with a unilateral action that would succeed in a matter of two weeks or three weeks. that is the issue. so it is up to lawmakers. but my hope and intention is we re going to resolve this problem, i find a rational to take it to the courts to see whether or not the 14th amendment is in fact something that would be able to stop it. reporter: and abby, so it is up to lawmakers and the president confirming that is the case. it is important for two reasons. one, i ve spoken to market participants that are convinced, if congress can t figure this out, there has to be a fallback plan somewhere. there is something that the president could do that will get them out of this mess. he s saying, explicitly, no there is not.