mallory mcmorrow gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. stephanie ruhle starts now tonight, the pressure is on to avoid a default on our nation s debt. president biden met with speaker mccarthy today, what happened during the high stakes negotiations? then, donald trump s mount of legal woes, including e. jean carroll seeking more damages from the former president. and debunking a story pushed by right-wing, involving migrants and homeless veterans. we will get to the truth, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. it is crunch time for the president and the speaker of the house. the country is now just ten days out from a potentially s tory default on its debt.
those ideas to see if we could come to an agreement. joining us now, former democratic senator from missouri claire mccaskill, she s an msnbc political analyst. clare, you have been there, you have done that, and you have been there in the era of madness, the era of republicans threatening to crack through the debt ceiling and default on the debt. what is your assessment of where it is tonight? well, my friends tell me that the main sticking point here is the desire of the republicans for spending cuts. now, there is so much about this political theater that is as phony as george santos s resume. first of all, keep in mind that the republicans voted for a lot of these a lot of this spending when trump was in office. second of all, they are not saying they are going to subset the trump tax cuts, and if they don t subset the trump tax cuts,
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