washington where things stand with our chad pergram. hi, chad. neil, good afternoon. the house freedom caucus just took a formal position in the debt ceiling debate. it endorses the bill passed by the house in april. the caucus says there should be no further discussion until the senate passes the legislation. the house bill, we passed it. that is the mechanism right now sitting there that there s 11 democrats in the senate and the democratic president of the united states that stand between that bill and it becoming law. it was thought that house speaker kevin mccarthy would lose a good chunk of republicans who could not accept anything less than the house passed bill. the question is can mccarthy get just enough gop members on board and can democrats provide the rest. speaker mccarthy has limited capacity to really negotiate. he s handcuffed and in leg irons from that 15 votes that it took to get them elected. if he is able to negotiate something, once he tries to
the republicans in the house are going to go on record and make a decision if they re going to stand for truth and accountable or if they re going to stand with someone who is an admitted liar. republicans unable to clean up their own george santos mess, so it was left to a democrat to produce a resolution to expel him. i m ask hakeem jeffries about that and his meeting today with the white house on the looming debt ceiling crisis. also tonight, the serious new allegations against rudy giuliani. beyond the really pervy alleged sexual harassment, there s the accusation he and trump were trying to sell pardons and planned to split the cash. plus, keeping it right wing goes wrong. the culture war ron desantis is fighting is not only morally repugnant, it s economically disastrous. case in point, his most recent anti-immigration bi and we be to the brink of financial catastrophe. we are now just 15 days from the united states potentially running out of cash to pay its bi
Commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. In other words, there was a quid pro quo and ukraine knew it. Sondland made those changes to his testimony yesterday, on the same day that House Democrats began releasing closed door testimony to the public. In a threepage declaration, sondland says by the beginning of september 19 and in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anticorruption statement. That explicitly included the 2016 election and Hunter Bidens company, burisma. He goes on to say, quote, i now recall speaking individually with the zelensky aide that Rudy Giuliani met with in madrid, mr. Yermak, where i said that resumption of u. S. Aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. Again, remember, one of the talking points from the white house has been if ukraine didnt know the aid was
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