48 hours, four big issues and no clear answers here. congress barrelling towards the mid october deadline to raise the national debt limit. the parties locked in a stalemate. democrats want to avoid using this budget maneuver to raise it alone, but there is no other clear way to get to the finish line and the government could still shutdown if no spending bill is passed by tomorrow night. yeah, a lot of washington process and sausage making that matters to your family budget, democrats are wrestling over decoupling the spending bill from the debt limit and separating the economic packages, hard and human infrastructure. the two moderate senators who do decide the fate of all this remain tight lipped. patience even among the democrats is waning with kirsten sinema and joe manchin over one basic question. what is it they want? cnn s kaitlan collins reports from the white house. reporter: good morning, christine and laura. despite the two meetings president biden had at the white hous
ammunition they needed with this big battle over something that would look quaint today, a fight over the president s ability to pick and replace his own cabinet. but the stakes were higher than that. that s how the story of john meachum puts it. mostly about johnson denying a law limiting his power, which teed audiotape senate trial on three of those. one of them might not even read like a high crime today. it was all about his character, the congress saying he brought the high office of the president into contempt, ridicule and disgrace, undercutting two branches of government. they said he also brought, quote, into disgrace ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach the congress of the united states. that was a time of pearl for america. congress barrelling towards removing a president in part