and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. standoff tonight. it is a major test for president biden playing out on the house floor tonight. a little standoff between republicans and democrats over the debt ceiling. and later tonight, there is going to be a test vote on the house floor. now, this is important because no republican that we know of at this time is willing to vote in favor of allowing the debt limit to rise. now, here is why this matters to all of us. according to the congressional budget office, if congress does not do something, in other words raise the debt ceiling so that the united states is allowed to issue more debt, the federal government's going to run out of money, likely as soon as ten days from now. it says october or november. october, obviously, starts in nine days. and this is a big deal because it would lead to the first american default in history. treasury secretary janet yellen warning in a "wall street journal" op-ed this week, and i quote, failing to raise the debt limit would produce widespread economic catastrophe. we would emerge from this crisis a permanently weaker nation. now, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is not going to help out. he is tweeting, quote, let's be clear. with a democratic president, a democratic house, and a democratic senate, democrats have every tool they need to raise the debt limit. it is their soul responsibility. republicans will not facilitate another rec ltsless, partisan, taxing, and spending spree. mcconnell is on the record making it clear default is a disaster and it cannot happen. and let's be clear. this default has nothing to do with the money they are about to put in these bills, right? this is just the stuff they have already chugged in there. they got to pay the bills. and by the way, mcconnell was willing to vote to raise the debt ceiling back in 2019 when it was republicans spending driving the crisis. >> we'll never have america default. because america can't default. i mean, that would be a disaster. >> all right. so if that's what he thinks, well, you know, according to "the washington post," that was actually one of 32 times mcconnell did vote to allow more debt. to increase the debt ceiling during his career. so that's what he thought until now. and again, i just do want to be really clear here that we are talking about spending that's already been promised and put out there. so, when they conflate it with the spending in a bill that hasn't even passed yet, that's just bogus. okay? and three of the times mcconnell voted to increase the debt ceiling, democrats actually supported. they got onboard and voted to increase as well. during the trump administration. this time, republicans won't help democrats. okay. the reason congress has to raise the debt ceiling is to pay those bills already due. including massive bills that have been rack ud up in recent years and in that case, they were by trump. so the 2017 bill, the tax cuts. that added more than $2 trillion to the federal debt. coronavirus aid package cost more than $3 trillion. so when you add today up, the national debt rose by roughly $7.8 trillion during the trump administration. that is a 40% increase in the entire standing national debt of the united states of america under one president in four years. okay. if that's how you measure fiscal recklessness, that would be the gold medal. but of course, many wrongs on, well, let's just spend more, don't necessarily make a right. and democrats have their own spending problems, too. just eight months into the biden administration, president biden has already spent $1.9 trillion on a coronavirus relief package. and now, the senate has approved a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes half a billion dollars in new spending. and that's not all because biden wants another $3.5 trillion on everything from more tax cuts to childcare to education to healthcare to immigration to climate change. there is a lot of things in that bill. the list goes on. all of it just means the debt continues to surge, and so do the problems for biden because while the debt ceiling matters, it is not even his biggest issue on this because, no, his biggest issue is not that republicans won't step up on the debt ceiling. his biggest issue is democrats and revolt from within his own party. as i said, the senate has passed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and the house has not. so, house speaker nancy pelosi set a deadline. she said six days from now, we are going to vote oh on that bill. but progressives are threatening to tank the entire thing, tank biden's own plan because they want to get a vote on their way, way, way bigger spend package, first. it is a spending schism within biden's own party. >> 3.5 # trillion is just that a ceiling. no one has ever said that's an exact number or that's a floor. >> i live in an apartment building and, you know, somebody's ceiling is somebody else's floor. and in this case, his ceiling is somebody else's floor. tweeting in response, quote, $3.5 trillion is the floor. now, this is going to take time if they can even figure it out. likely, more than the six days pelosi promised. because when your floor is someone else's ceiling, you're not on the same page. you are not in the same apartment. not philosophically, not politically, not in reality. and one thing we cdo know right now is biden's legacy hangness the balance. m manu raju is on capitol hill. separate even from this whole debt ceiling potential fiasco, he's got a crisis in his own party. >> yeah. and the question is whether he can get these major legislative bills done in the next several days. it's very possible we could see the entire effort collapse because of a lack of agreement between the wings of the party. progressives who are pushing for a very expansive role for government, the $3.5 trillion package. moderates want to pare that back. and also, timing. this is essential to almost everything here because there is not just the larger democratic only approach but also that narrow instructure shuck bill that passed the senate last month. that $1.2 trillion plan nancy pelosi has given assurances to her moderate members there will be a vote on september 27th on that bill. that bill to -- that was supported by 19 republicans in the united states senate. but the question is will progressives be there at the end of the day? progressives, including pramila jayapal met with nanssy pelosi earlier today and she made clear that more than after of her 96-member caucus will vote against that plan. the infrastructure plan on monday. if that larger democratic plan is not approved by congress by monday. and, erin, there is no chance that the larger democratic plan will be approved because they don't even have an agreement within their own party about what that ultimately will look like. so the question is now will pelosi delay that september 27th vote? i just asked her off the house floor, moments ago whether she would be open to delaying that vote in order to get both these bills through as the progressives want. she did not go that far. she said they were still pushing ahead. i said what about these threats by the progressives in the caucus? she said we will cross that bridge when we get to it. she said this is the legislative process so no doubt, erin, there is going to be a lot of pressure. negotiation. in the days ahead. and joe biden, himself, getting in themix expected to have one one meetings with some house democrats to get them to the line. big question. >> it's just incredible. manu, thank you very much. i want to go to democratic congressman josh gottheimer. and he sits on the house financial services committee. well, problem solvers are required here. but obviously, i -- i -- i don't mean to -- i mean, look. the reality of it is are you concerned about the fate of biden's agenda right now? you have this whole bipartisan infrastructure bill. that whole thing is now in j jeopardy, too. >> well, thanks for having me. i am very optimistic that we will, on monday, bring it up. we will get a vote and it's going to pass the house. you know, this is an historic once-in- once-in-a-century infrastructure package. as you point out before, 50 democrats including bernie sanders and joe manchin in the senate and 19 republicans including mitch mcconnell. there is no reason why we can't get this done. and we are going to bring it to the floor on monday. we will debate it as -- as every single democrat in the caucus agreed to do. and as obviously speaker pelosi did and there is no one better than speaker pelosi at getting votes and so i am optimistic we will get it done monday. >> i know she had given you assurances. but it's this weird brinksmanship. where you have got people like congresswoman jayapal saying no they are not going to vote on it until they vote on the $3.5 trillion. and that's not open written yet and you heard manu say there is no way that will be written and ready on monday. and then, they are going to vote against your $1 trillion. if they don't get theirs first. are you confident you have got the votes and you are going to get the $1 trillion bipartisan bill through before this whole other giant thing? >> there is too much on the line. we'll get it done. i'm incredibly optimistic. we will have democrats and republicans voting for for the bill on monday. it's what the country needs. you are talking about 2 million jobs a year, crumbling infrastructure we have got to address right away. and, you know, erin, the good news is we will immediately continue working on that reconciliation package which also has so many important priorities in it. just like the infrastructure package which deals with climate change and -- and climate resiliency. and roads and bridges and the gateway tunnel. so many important priorities. there's so many things in the reconciliation package which are important, as well. and we're working and making great progress on that and we are going to keep doing it and get that done also. >> okay. so you are optimistic but let me just play for you what congresswoman jayapal said to you tonight. she said she had been talking to you but this is what she said. >> i spoke with josh. he is a good colleague of mine. i spoke with him multiple times in the last couple weeks. and i made it clear that this is where we were. the decision was made to split it up into two bills. fine. we didn't like it. but we ultimately agreed to it because it was a two-track strategy and we were very clear. three months ago, i think is the first statement i put out after we talked to our caucus members that we would go along with that. but only on the condition that we passed the reconciliation bill, first. >> okay. that's the opposite of what you are saying. but you're confident you are going to get -- you guys are going to come together on this? >> i am, we'll get there. there is just too much on the line. obviously, the white house wants it. the president wants it. the country needs it and you know, it's just too much at stake here to do anything but come together and we will. we will work it out. we have got several days to do it. you know, sometimes, little messy on the way there but it's too important not to and we can also work on reconciliation, which we are doing right now. we can do both. but the bottom line is the vote is going to be on the 27th. we have a commitment from the speaker and every democrat in the caucus voted to bring it up on the 27th. we did that in august. we will consider it on monday. and then, of course, we will pass that and continue our work on reconciliation. >> i will be honest with you. i didn't expect you to be as definitive as you are being because -- um -- what this comes down to is, you know, people watching. they say, okay, it's the timing on which you vote for first. okay. and that is what it comes down to i know procedurally, really matters. but the reason you are not able to agree is because you are not agreeing on the amounts, right? you are just not on on the same page, right? you have got people who want this whole floor-sealing thing. and. >> on the second bill, yeah. >> yeah, on the $3.5 trillion. right? it wouldn't be hard to vote on that if you all would come to agreement on how big it is. your party is simply not there. i mean, are you going to be able to find something that will satisfy everybody? i mean, you have got people like congressman jayapal saying it should be $6.5 trillion. you are lucky i cut it in half. and you have the moderates saying forget 3.5. i mean, this has really fall apart. >> well, of course, we are there on the infrastructure package. we agreed on that and as i said, bernie sanders with warren and 50 democrats and 19 republicans agreed on that and these are two separate packages. they're -- right? they are distinct issues and we should consider them separately. and then, you know, we are working through the other one. it is a really important package. there's so many issues like climate and there is so many things that are so important in there. we are working together on that. it takes time but the bottom line is we are at the able. so it just doesn't make any sense to stop one while working on the other. that's why i am optimistic that we will do it and, you know, of course, have assurances that as is happening right now that we will keep working on the other one. so yes, i'm optimistic. it's critically important. the white house is behind this. just this morning, the speaker and the leader -- leader clyburn and hoyer. and it's what our colleagues want so we will do it and get there. >> all right. congressman, i priappreciate yo time. and like i said, i am glad to hear you take a stand and be didn'tive and we all hope you are right because we would like to see progress made. something that was bipartisan is -- is rare and something everybody -- >> right? 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>> well, it tells me that, you know, your worst fear in these cases is that tbody will be so degraded either by weather or animal activity in the area, you won't be able to determine that. it tells me they have enough to determine that her death was caused by the intentional infliction of injuries by another person. that is a homicide. now, the cause of death, how it was -- whether it be blunt-force trauma or -- or strangulation. we -- that's yet to be determined. more examination needs to take place but they have enough of her body left to determine that her -- her death was caused by an intentional injuries caused by another person. >> so crucial development today, bobby, with the decision by police to resume their search at that nature reserve in florida. as athena was reporting. and that search is for brian laundrie. petito's fiance. now, yesterday, police had said they had quote exhausted all avenues at that location. but they were back today. so you have extensive experience with these kinds of searches. what -- what does it suggest to you that after saying they had exhausted everything there, they are back today? >> when you look at what -- what -- what happened. what transpired between their statement that they were done there and now? well, they removed a bunch of things from the home. and so, in my opinion, there is a good possibility that something they found in the home either on a hard drive or in a journal, something they took and were examining last night may have led them back there. it's also possible that a person could have said you looked in the wrong place of that reserve. you were looking over here and you should be looking there. so i believe you look at what transpired between then and now, and what transpired was all of that -- the information they got from the search warrant last night. >> so, we are learning new details tonight about that domestic dispute between petito and laundrie on august 12th. that was at utah. you know, we had the 9-1-1 call. and now, we have a witness telling police in a sworn statement that we have just obtained, quote, they were talking aggressively at each other and something seemed off. one point, they were sort of fighting over a phone. i think the male took the female's phone. it appeared that he didn't want her in the white van. now, of course, we know the man who called 9-1-1 after that dispute claimed laundrie was slapping petito. one of the officers said she told petito that the relationship seemed toxic. so, as you get more and more data points coming in, bobby, where does it lead you? >> well, it leads me to believe that there is a history of some kind of, you know, either coercive control or domestic violence in -- in this couple's past. you know, and d-- and stuff can be very subtle and very nuanced and grow over time and maybe the fact they were spending so much time in close proximity to each other, basically living in that van for over a month. that history could have gotten worse and exaggerated. we know from her mother that she was exhibiting more anxiety as that trip went on. and so, i think that, you know, whatever problems they had were exacerbated and aggravated by this close proximity live in that van. >> do you think that -- that they believe right now that brian laundrie is alive? >> there is only two ways to go with this. he is either a fugitive on the run trying to stay away from law enforcement or he is going somewhere to do harm to himself or maybe, you know, suicide by cop type of thing. so i think right now the search of that reserve area, because it's so remote, it's not a place you would go if you were looking to run away. when you are running away, you go places you have never been before. he is going back to some place if he is in fact there, he is going back to some place he is comfortable, that he knows. that to me tells me he could be looking to maybe harm himself at the end of this or put himself in a position where the police have to harm him. if in fact he is there. we don't even know he is there. we don't know what the basis is for them searching there. >> fair point. bobby, thank you very much. >> thank you. next, fearing for their safety and their lives. congr congressman anthony gonzales, not only announcing his retirement after voting to impeach trump. he is now revealing that he and his family faced multiple security threats, too. and vice president kamala harris sounding off on this video from the border. calling it horrible. >> human beings should never be treated that way. i made a financial plan to live it every day. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com you need an ecolab scientific clean here. and you need it here. and here. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean is now helping the places you go every day too. seek a commitment to clean. look for the ecolab science certified seal. instantly clear everyday congestion with vicks sinex saline. for fast drug free relief vicks sinex. instantly clear everyday congestion. and try vicks sinex children's saline. safe and gentle relief for children's noses. in 2016, i was working at the amazon warehouse when my brother passed away. and a couple of years later, my mother passed away. after taking care of them, i knew that i really wanted to become a nurse. amazon helped me with training and tuition. today, i'm a medical assistant and i'm studying to become a registered nurse. in filipino: you'll always be in my heart. 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>> well, i'm greatly concerned. i'm greatly concerned for the men and women of the u.s. capitol police force and, frankly, every law enforcement officer in this country. i think that there are a number of -- of reasons for this. i mean, the -- the narrative about policing over the last three, four, five years has certainly -- um -- focused on the -- this small number of officers that have done in some cases criminal acts. and this -- the narrative has just been, i think, br broad brushed to a point where folks just think they don't trust cops. they don't like cops. and i -- i think that that, in addition to the -- what happens on social media -- um -- just -- just continues to inflame this and, again, i'm -- i'm fearful for the safety of -- of anybody, you know, doing this job. >> you know, the context, obviously, that you give is important. i also wanted to play something that two trump supporters told our donie o'sullivan about the insurrection on january 6th. here they are. >> the only person that got killed that day was a trump supporter. and her name was ashli babbitt. >> and she was murdered. >> of course, she wasn't the only person who died that day. um, and, you know, four of your officers died shortly thereafter by suicide, as well. after going through what they went through on that horrific day. your officer who shot ashli babbitt has been cleared of any wrongdoing in an investigation. and yet, you hear the former president and then his allies repeatedly try to make ashli babbitt a martyr. say that she was literally murdered by police. that is the word that he uses. how much do you think this narrative, those words put your officers at risk? >> well, when -- you know, there -- fthere have been cases again, over the last five or six years where a lot of folks have said, you know, this police officer murdered this individual. and again, this narrative certainly -- um -- when it's heard often enough and repeated often enough, it -- it just gets -- i think the general public to be less trustful of the police and certainly put police in a bad light. all police. which is -- which is not fair but it's -- but it's understandable. um, with -- with this constant narrative that folks are talking about. and it doesn't matter, you know, it -- someone's -- you know, the ideology of the person who is saying this. i mean, you've got folks from -- from just about every, you know, from the far left, the far right, in the middle who, you know, have said things about police officers, you know, when they're involved in a deadly-force situation. so, it's always going to be controversial. it's always going to be difficult for the public to accept. even with body-worn cameras. um, you know, people can see the same video and come to completely different conclusions about what occurred. >> so, there is also a troubling rise in threat against members of congress, chief, as you know, of course, because you are dealing with this right now to protect them. one example that i mentioned was the republican congressman anthony gonzales. so he said he and his familiar were greeted at an airport with extra security after he voted to impeach then-president trump and he then received many threats against his -- his family and himself. how much of a rise in threats against members of congress are you seeing? >> so, when we -- we've been keeping track of these for many, many years and in 2016, we had less than a thousand. if things continue to go the way they are in -- in 2021, we are going to have over 9,000. so we go from 900 to 9,000 in a spa span of about five years. so that's -- that is a pretty significant uptick. >> it's horrible. i want to ask you about one other thing as you know it's been getting a lot of attention. i know disciplinary action was recommended against six capitol police officers for their actions on january 6th and i understand it was conduct unbecoming for an officer, failure to comply with directives, and we at cnn are aware of some internal documents that show a lieutenant told a type line that a high-ranking capitol police officer who supported trump told those under his command not to wear riot gear on january 6th. here's what former-president trump has said about your officers on that day. >> in all fairness, the capitol police were ushering people in. the capitol police were very friendly. you know, they were hugging and kissing. >> is -- is that -- is it as simple as that? >> no, it's not. frankly, that is not accurate information. the -- the officers that -- um -- we have investigated and disciplined. the cases that we investigated. um, they -- they run from minor infractions to -- to officers making very poor judgments for more serious misconduct. but this notion that the capitol police were somehow allowing these folks into the capitol, inviting them in, helping them, just simply not true. >> chief manger, i prappreciate your time. thank you for coming on. and next, dhs says migrants camped out under a bridge in texas will be cleared out in days but are tens of thousands more heading to take their places? and "the new york times" reporting tonight the trump campaign knew lawyers' claims about voting machines were false. conspiracy theories, at best. so why did trump continue? and by the way, still continues the lie. a reporter for the new york times. if you just hold it like this. yeah. ♪ i love finding out things that other people don't want me to know. mm-hmm. 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>> it is. my dad is a truck driver. i'm excited. >> i am, too. >> but i do this because of my mom. my mom is one of the strongest people i know. she is a bus driver. i remember many days of open up the gate and have my mom back up her bus. and i saw her training women. >> together, we helping others. >> together, we're strong. building a legacy. >> nobody thought she could do it because she is 5'3". she walked into a room. she is the only woman. she was the only black person in the room. and nothing ever fazed her. she is trying to provide an opportunity to become a truck driver, and have a career and economic independence. how are you making change in the industry overall? >> the biggest change that we are making is by being a voice. >> she trucking. how can i help you? >> i talk to drivers every single day to figure out what are their challenges? what's going on? a lot of drivers who come into this industry not in the best situation. becomes your safe haven. >> i met her about three years ago when i first started driving. i knew of no -- no female truckers. so when i found she trucking, it was like magical for me. i have four children. i was always a single mother. i was also in an abusive relationship. allowed me to get away. i mean, you make good money in trucking. i could take care of my family. >> hey. welcome to she trucking. she trucking is a -- for women drivers. it is here to encourage, support, and inspire women to become truckers. >> i looked on youtube. learned how to build a website. learned how to make my t-shirts. and it just grew and grew. >> you look at her now, who has more than 20,000 women that -- that -- that she is providing supplies for, that she is mentoring. that she is trying to change the trucking industry so that women can succeed and thrive and be safe in it. what do you think about your child? 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