the obama administration was up to no good. how many of you people want to pay for your neighbor s mortgage that has an extra bedroom and can t pay their bills raise their hand. president obama, are you listening? are you americans listening now. things are worse now than they were when centrally made that way. back then our national debt sat at $8.9 trillion, today buckle up, it is $28.4 trillion and growing exponentially. it is time for a new tea party type movement to form, to organize and fan out across the country on issues ranging from critical race. the masks in schools we are seeing sparks of activism. this kind of stuff is poison. this will turn this country apart if it becomes part of our fabric. just because i do not want critical race theory talk to my children in school does not mean that i m a racist, dammit!
campaign their bills? raise your hand. president obama, are you listening? laura: are all you americans listening now? things are worse now than they were when he made that plea. back then our national debt stood at about $10.8 trillion. today, buckle up, it s 28.4 trillion and growing exponentially. it s time for a new tea party type movement to form. to organize and to fan out across the country. on issues ranging from critical race theory to masks in schools, we are already seeing sparks of activism. this kind of stuff is poison. this will tear this country apart if it becomes a part of our fabric. just because i do not want critical race theory taught to my children in school does not mean that i am a racist.
for more competition into the wholesale gas market, so obviously you can fully appreciate russian perspective given it is method they have historically used to price the gas contracts to europe. qm. gas contracts to europe. 0k, thank you gas contracts to europe. 0k, thank you very gas contracts to europe. 0k, thank you very much - gas contracts to europe. 0k, thank you very much for - gas contracts to europe. 0k, thank you very much for your time and your contributions today. time and your contributions toda . . ~ time and your contributions toda . ., ,, today. thank you. let s today. thank you. let s head - today. thank you. let s head over i today. thank you. let s head over toj today. thank you. - let s head over to the today. thank you. let s head over to the united states because financial markets are breathing quite a sigh of relief after the senate moved to head off a looming debt default. it reaches limit of $28.4 trillion and red faced running out of money next week. t
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening with the country barreling toward a financial cliff tonight, republicans may be blinking and ready to help avert catastrophe with a new offer to democrats providing an off-ramp in the showdown of raising the $28.4 trillion debt ceiling. tonight the clock is ticking. less than two weeks until the u.s. will either have to raise the borrowing limit to pay past bills or face the chilling prospect of default and potential economic disaster senate minority leader mitch mcconnell now saying he will support an extension of the debt ceiling to allow the country to pay its bills for now, a temporary solution at best. peter alexander now with late details. reporter: tonight, what could be a new short-term solution to the looming fiscal disaster top republican mitch mcconnell offering democrats a deal to allow the government to extend its ability to borrow money to pay its bills for an
about not defaulting on the money already spent. that was spent under somebody who you supported, one of your party s former leaders, donald trump, right? that was money, those were bills that president trump and that congress racked up that you now have to pay. how are you not going to do that? that s part of those trillion dollar deficits that we had evolved to even then. and i wasn t for that. i didn t vote to raise the debt ceiling when i was here in 19. one of the few republicans that will practice what we preach. if you don t have reforms, don t accommodate it. the difference here is that never have we teed up this amount of spending and in the context, hallie, $18 trillion in debt when i got here in january of 19. now $28.4 trillion. this is kicking something down the road, and there s a point, yes, it s like we had an epiphany as republicans. we better practice what we preach when we do get the reins back of lowering deficits and still being engaged in issues