discrepancy between president biden and his generals. talk through the way that the white house is looking to defend the president here in light of what we heard today at this testimony. reporter: so the white house is framing this as the president having been presented with a range of options and having gotten advice fm a number of individuals which is what they said rtinely happens in the white house. you have people comein, they present options, they make recommendations. at one point, press secretary jen psaki said this is not like a movie where decisions are made in black and white. here s a little bit mor of what she had to say today. well, let me give you a full a couple of specifics from the actual transcrt because i know it s been shorthande a bit. no malintent. but the question asked, your top military advisers warne against withdrawing on this time line. they wanted you to keep 2,500 troops. the president said, no they didn t, it was split.
week on cr, connuing resolution to fund the government to avoid ahutdown. the cr will pass, but the other two, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, roads and bridges, that the more standard infrastructure bill. there s als the bigger social spending bill that right now has a price tag of 3 1/2 trillion. you say you re confint you re going to pass both of those. ho and in what order and when? that s what s so critical to this. f i rub my crystal ball, i ink what i would see happening is that there will be enough insurances given to progressives over the next couple of days, they will not hold the bipartisan infrastructure bill up and we ll vote on that on thursday or friday and pass that. that would go to the president. some of them are saying ty want to wait until the senate passes the build back betterct which is unreasonable and i think they know it s
one of the president s top advisers. he said there were no commments made at all, just good negotiations i have to ask you, you referenced it at the top of this conversation, the debt ceiling crisis we have explained over and over again on the show, the real world consequences if t u.s. defaults on its debt. old spending, not future, new upcoming spending to be clear. how d you manage to find a solution here gen that republicans are being very clear and insist tent, as we saw this afternoon, they re not budging. well, we re going to pass this week a clean debt limit suspension and that will put i think the republican senators in a tough spot. yeah, they ve all said they re going to vote to default. if there s no way to confuse it with a continuing resolution, it s a clean bill on the debt limit. it s a clean if they vote against it, it will be a vote to
to do it. i m out of time, congressman. i have to ask you quickly, you have this plan now to try to avoid this dow the road, right, to eliminate this sort of weirdly traditional drama over the debt ceiling that keeps coming up in congress. in ten sonds or less explain what that is. it would give the president the right to raise the debt limit or suspend and congress would have the ability to disapprove of the president s action. it was actually this is an idea that was conceived by mitch mcconnell. itill be interesting to see how he reacts to that. congressman, as promised, making a lot of news with us this afternoon. thank you. we hope to have you bk soon. appreciate your time. thanks. want to get to interesting developments that are breakg this afternoon with the wall street journal releasing another report on instagram and facebook s push to attract tweens, preteens. this all comes ahead of some politically significant
she says you don t have to like me. she s straight up about that. she s candid in the book. doesn t cast herself by some folks in the trump era cast themselves as these panacea characters trying to save the president from all sorts of deleterious acts, keep them from doing x, y, or z. she doesn t cast herself that way. let me quickly get to a couple stories. one interesting piece was a mystery i remember covering on a saturday over the course of a full weekend on mystery trip to walter reed in 2019. i remember why is he there, what s going on. she alludes, doesn t have to say it, says it without saying it, it was a colonoscopy, right? that s what she says. he did not want to go under anesthesia, did not want vice president pence to take over,