this is what happens when you have a five vote majority, right ? and you already have more than five people saying i m not going to vote for this until i see more. um, that home away from home. you just showed the house basement of mine. what we learned today was this this package, whatever it s going to be, it s probably going to have to go even more right. there s even talk of trying to repeal the inflation reduction act in this you kind of get into some wonkery there because that would actually raise the cost of things. um so what we hope to see in the next few days is then put out something they hope to vote next week because the house is in recess the week after that, but it s definitely very unclear right now, whether he can get 2 to 18 and what happens and this is a reminder of how hard it it was for him to become speaker and give him credit. give him his due for surviving that vote, but every big issue he s a hostage, essentially because he can only afford to lose three or four
corridor of wonkery. we want people who understand the threat, who have been there in the field and just people who have new ideas because the last eight years in fact, the last 16 years have not brought security to america or to our allies. as a nerd and a wonk, i won t take that personally but i think you re kind of a wonk as well. deputy assistant to the president, appreciate your time. thanks. lot to talk about joining the panel tonight, kristen paris, dana bash, and gloria borger. first of all, you heard sebastian gorka pushing back on the idea the white house is under siege in any way. he says things are going swimmingly, nothing to see here. right. look, it seems to me it depends on with whom you speak at the white house. i spoke with somebody last night who said that it s quieter inside than you would think, and that obviously today is a lot better than it was yesterday for the white house. but there are still the factions
so are you saying that an american administration should not collect the widest opinions, the expertise i m not making a statement. i m asking a question. i m asking you. do you have a problem with us talking to professionals in this area who ve been there, seen it, done it? steve feinberg hold on a second. steve feinberg is not a military professional who spent time in afghanistan. let me finish. we have we have eight years of listening to wonks, okay? the wonks that brought the disastrous decisions to pull out of iraq, to say that we re winning, al qaeda is on the ropes. that s a fantasy land. that s alice in wonderland. we don t listen to the wonkery of the bubble anymore. we listen to practitioners and people who and how is steve feinberg a practitioner of military leadership in afghanistan? we listen to practitioners and we listen to people who have
august 1. it would be repealed down the road in 2018 and give us time when would the taxes associated with it be repealed? i think the taxes have to be repeal right away. we have to be realistic about the great burden that both the affordable care act and the taxes have put on the american people. neil: the president has come back to refer to the house measure as mean. how did you feel about that? i don t think it s mean. i disagree. it s realistic. what is mean is to force the american people under the affordable care act for any longer. neil: thanks, congressman. thank you. neil: stocks kicking off the second half of the year. it was a limited session. all trading ceased at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. in that brief time, we were well into record territory. the dow still up 129 2/3 points. 21,479. also for those that get into wonkery here, the dow