the mood in washington. with just one week left until treasury officials say they will run out of cash to pay its bills, the mood music from washington was upbeat. but a deal can be done to avoid default. i want to be clear. the negotiations we are having with speaker mccarthy are about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about defaults. it is about competing visions for america. nothing will be resolved until we resolve them all. we know where our differences lie. we worked well past midnight last night, we are back at it today, trying to get to the conclusion so we can solve this problem. failure to reach an agreement could have global implications. fitch, one of the major credit rating agencies warned of a potential downgrade to the us credit rating if the deal isn t done. the us treasury department seized on this, saying it underscored the need for swift bipartisan action. the biggest sticking point remains spending. if they don t cut enough, they won t wi
my guest today is the leader of the biggest opposition party, the democratic alliance, john steenhuisen. could he become south africa s first white leader since apartheid? john steenhuisen, welcome to hardtalk. great to be with you, stephen. well, it s great to be here in cape town. let s start with a very simple question. when you said not so long ago, there is a changing of the guard coming in south africa, the anc s decline is terminal. it s just a matter of how fast, did you really believe that? of course i believed it then. i think it s a fair assessment about where the anc find themselves, in the last local government elections, in 2021, they, for the first time in post democratic south africa, lost their majority and fell below 50%. this obviously allied with the fact that our economy s not growing, we ve got 30 million people living in poverty, 12 million people unemployed, and loadshedding, rolling blackouts, which have reached into every home and switched off the
miles north of the big city. at least 20 homeless veterans, some suffering from ptsd, had to give up their hotel rooms for illegals. the head of a nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping them and told this to the new york post. whether you agree with asylum seekers being here or not we can t just ignore these veterans that are in our charge that we are supposed to protect. we need to put them first. a republican assemblyman who represents orange county is furious. it s a total embarrassment. a slap in the face to veterans and citizens of new york and this country who are being cast aside to allow for asylum seekers to come here. when it comes to this situation you had combat veterans who were homeless told to get out of their hotel. what we ve tried to do is let the veterans know we appreciate them and embarrassed by what is happened to them but we have their backs. harris: some pointing to a profit as a motivator for all that s going on. a travesty. that nonprofit gr
uncomfortable, even inhibited in certain situations with the other human beings. you wouldn t understand. because i m a pod? jesse: world feels like a giant pod right now. we love it. it s not normal. even the world s richest man wants things to go back to normal. do i believe biden won? yes, i believe he won. and you voted for him? i did, actually. do you regret that? i mean man, i wish we could have just a normal human being as president, that s what i want. that old saying of like we re better off being run by picked at random from the phone book than the faculty of harvard. i would say if we could do that for the president, that would be great. obviously you are not happy with biden. don t we all just want a normal human being. whatever that means. jesse: rich, poor, black, white, female. everybody want the same thing. we want normal. elon is not being political. is he looking at it like a businessman. the most important thing is confidence. the