raising the debt ceiling unilaterally, how could th president do that? so, jonathan, we have a lon record and we ve spoken to thi several times. we believe in congress has t do its constitutional duty and avoid a default in thi country. we have always paid our bills, we are a country who pays ou bills. that is a responsible thing to do, congress and a bipartisa way to three times with th last president, and they nee to do it again one of the things speaker mccarthy is saying is that h won t sit down and negotiate he said he would, but we haven t talked since earlier this year. now that speaker mccarthy ha released his debt ceiling plan why won t the president si down and negotiate with speake mccarthy the last we checked get sealing and making sure we don t default on our debt an we risk the full faith of th united states has been taken off the table. especially not by hous republicans. as you mentioned, 320 page bil that says, will avoid default,
individual prosecutors on municipal level. that being said, his claim around safety, while every cit has their challenges what we are seeing in the cities tha jim jordan represents have fir higher incidents of violence than new york city does. and if we are actually concerned about crime, what we need to do is get guns off o streets. and because jim jordan and republican party does not want to address the crisis that i gun violence in america, the want to engage in a pursuit of political intimidation on th people who actually want t hold people accountable. in the midterms, hous republicans primarily ran on the economy, inflation, bu since they gain the majority o their focus has been primarily on investigations, stalkin culture worlds, this week they passed a transgender sportsman in schools one, what do you think of that but also, how would yo describe their vision? well, the reason republican
particular day certainly he made a circus out of hi indictment, of his own doing so the pretrial publicity that he s complaining of here, that is partially of his own doing. amazing and you know i got house republicans come to new york city tomorrow to condemn the d.a. who indicted trump. i want you to take a listen to one democratic lawmaker said about this trip. members of congress hav built hearings, which ar predominantly our fiel hearings are to go to he constituents to hear about the things that they are mos interested in, not the thing that trump is interested in. so this is a trump style attac on our justice system, and i is a dangerous political stunt that the republicans are going to do on monday. and then of course, let s just later on last wee manhattan d.a. alvin bragg sue to congressman jordan to mov to blocking that in the trum case my question is, at what poin do stunts like these from hous republicans actually open them up to legal liability?
seeing go on to mar-a-lago, on twitter, and in conservative circles more broadly with trump it is either you are wit us or you are against us i m curious to get the thought i that context as i mentioned you are i florida. you mention ron desantis, hous republicans, their annua retreat is taking place that this week. i m sure this will probabl come up near the water coole at some point. how have republicans bee dealing with and reacting to those two men, specifically as they appear to be battling i out to be the head of th party. i m going to speculate an say that rhonda santos is no kevin currently is gone all in on the trump train once again. it s not. kevin mccarthy has gone out of his way not to officiall endorsed him it is hard to view this as not preemptive without him being asked th decision to tweet out an investigation as anything but supportive move towards th former president after the rest of th republican conference, other
trump team widely believed and indictment will be to thei advantage, at, least in th short term in a republican primary. you re seeing this play out on twitter. just a few minutes ago, chip roy, republican from texas, wh was one of the first members o the house to publicly endors ron desantis in 2024, wa defending trump on twitter talking about the idea o weaponize prosecution agains him. if it s trump versus liberal prosecutors, republicans, they believe, will flock back t trump. you are already starting to se that secondly, that gap to fill i here is donald trump s legal team has outlined a little bit of what would be their strateg in a courtroom, as it relate to this case in new york city. which surrounds those stormy daniels payments one of trump s lawyers on this network a few days ago argue that those payments were fro donald trump to his attorney so they would be collected - correctly described as legal fees, and they come out for billionaire to basically nuisance payments to ma