raising the debt ceiling itself. twice before senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said the g.o.p. would not assist. when do you say when you drew those two red lines and now help indirectly raise the debt ceiling? well, the red line is intact. there are always differences of opinion among republicans about how to handle a delicate issue like the debt ceiling. we won t know the size of the debt limit increase until next week, bret. bret: meantime, chad, the january 6th committee now considering contempt of congress charges for mark meadows, former white house chief of staff, former congressman. you know, last week it appeared that meadows would cooperate but meadows reversed himself. that deposition was planned for tomorrow. the committee says if meadows does not appear it will recommend the house refer him to the doj for criminal contempt of congress. and today a court set the trial date for steve bannon in his contempt of congress case