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what happened to the mayor. thanks for your time. newsroom takes over right now. a very happy monday afternoon to you. it s already a busy start to 2023. right now the man charged with killing four idaho college students is planning to waive extradition. what more we re learning about him. plus, tens of thousands of people paying respects in-person to former pope benedict and soccer legend pele. two men who meant so much to so many. we begin with the machete attack on three new york city police officers. sources saying the teen was on a watch list. gloria, what more are we learning this hour? reporter: right, akbby. traveled from maine to attack these police officers new year s eve not far from times square as thousands were pouring into the area to watch the new year s eve ball drop celebration. also just heard from police officials who told me trevor bickford charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer and two counts of assault. he remai ....
To service the debt. the american people owe $100,000 a person on our national debt of 32 trillion and this bill will make it worse by taking us to 25 the bottom line and i know it gets complicated june 5th and the bottom line is, janet y yellen, the treasury secretary said it would be a global economic catastrophe if the u.s. defaults. if the u.s. doesn t pay up june 5th, if a deal isn t reached. why not focus on the spending cuts and so forth at the time when congress does that, when congress looks over the spending for the country, looks at the president s spending bill and has nose negotiations and discussions, why use this time now when it comes to the debt ceilinging to try to have that discussion? why insert that into this rather than waiting for the spending bill discussions. great question and the reason why we have 32 trillion in ....
Recent memory. already given away a number of concessions, negotiated away a lot of his power, and importantly, a tool to enable them to call for a vote at any given moment to essentially fire him and they will use that over his head anytime he doesn t do what they like. think about the issues in terms of government funding, dead debt ceilinging and a number of things, kevin mccarthy front and center and at the middle of it all. difficult for him or anyone to lead this with emboldened conservative critics. and republican majority, about what is the outlook for getting anything done in this congress? of course, those big any big wish list item from democrats is unlikely to happen. the white house is very ....
Tell colleagues to vote against the budget bill. her answer was basically not really. are you against the cap still. i m telling people why i m voting the way i m voting. > with me now luis gutierrez democrat from illinois who does not support the budget deal without daca protection. the senate disentangled funding crs because they feel they have a promise in mcconnell they re going to move on it. what is the status in the house. we re at nothing. when we began this conversation, chris, you and i were talking about it last september. it was to use the leverage. and we ve given it all up because not only is the budget and raising the caps, the spending caps our military and domestic intending in this budget deal, that s eliminated. we haven t coupled the dreamers to that. we re also raising the debt ceilinging to some unprecedented number. we ve lost that. but i want to spend just one ....
Everybody knows it needs to be raised. it will be raised. we re going to have to wait and see what congress does with respect to negotiating details. can any good come from attaching any conditions to raising the debt ceiling? especially in this political climate we have now where republicans can t agree amongst each other about what should be done and then you bring in the democrats, get them involved and we could possibly see a situation given the political tensions, plus all the things on the docket that the debt ceiling falls by the wayside and we do as a nation end up defaulting? look, i can t tell you what s in the minds of congress. the leadership and administration are going to see the debt ceilinging is increases. personally, i had i we should simply increase it and move on. but there may be things that they can do that in the legislative process that actually would be of benefit to the country, be a benefit to the economy. we ve got a lot of issues with ....