the emphasis is now on the education of members about a default. that s why bankers like jamie dimon of j.p. morgan chase and jane fraser of citi group met with chuck schumer along with other senators today. mr. dimon, did default come up? what was your message to the leader? what would it do to the banking system? actual default would be a disaster. it s been said over and over, you re just repeating it. are you optimistic about a deal? let them worry about that. this is where wall street meets main street. the lead negotiator spoke today at the capitol. a sticking point, workman dates for people to receive some benefits. i asked the speakfer he agreed this needed to be a bipartisan process. he said yes. again, this i believe is a promising step in the right direction. nobody will get everything that they want in these discussions. i hope nobody, nobody draws red lines in the sand. but there s now optimism that the sides can reach a deal even with the president
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continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer
winning again. we ve been losing again. pointing to the former president and also pointing to the list of legal ills that former president has. where do you see this going? listen, i think that desantis, who has never run a national campaign and still learning, obviously done well at the state level. he won his house races, won the governor s races twice. he s got to go national. he has to do a series of policy speaches, how to counter china, russia, clear up his position on ukraine. generate some buzz. right now trump is just pummelling him. mentioned trump by name. why not? you re going to go toe to toe with him. let s get it on. neil: he might do that. he was trying to do that minus the name mentioning in iowa. he might do it again this weekend in new hampshire. do we know if he s form naturally moved up that announcement? there s no backing out at
part, says that they feel like they have made some progress with these workers meeting their demands. they believe they can come up with a fair contract. but back to the industry table. this is a chef who wants to have restaurant workers from across the country from dishwasher all the way up to other chefs come in, eat at his restaurant. he feels like it s a way to say thank you for what these restaurants did during the pandemic, but also a way to say, hey, we know you can t afford to eat here at these prices. let s do something to be able to say hey, we want to support you in the end. it s a really interesting experience. he wants us to go national. he wants other restaurants to get involved. it s an interesting way to talk about wages in a climate where it s everything right now. that would be great if it did go national. thank you. vanessa. you. also right now we are following this. you see these images that is toxic smoke that is spewing into the air and richmond, indiana. it s bee