Thanks for having me. That is all in on this thursday night. Good evening, alex. Amazing, were talking about the word contraception as something thats being litigated in the United States of america. Were going to have more on that later on our show as well. Thank you, my friend. And thank you for joining me this hour. Today we got the news that Donald Trumps one criminal case, the one criminal case that was likely to go to trial before the november election, may be delayed. Manhattan District Attorney alvin brags Hush Money Case was set to go to trial on march 25th, less than two weeks from today, but now that date is in question. Now, trumps legal strategy in all of his cases has been to push them off as long as possible, preferably until the month of nevuary. But todays delay is not coming from trump, or at least not directly. Today d. A. Braggs office consented to a 30day delay in the start of trial, but not because d. A. Bragg needs another month. Theres a new trove of records tha
putin knows, xi know knows. our allies know that joe biden, america s commander-in-chief, is in serious mental decline. and everyone saw what that looks like last night. now, this is not a political debate. it is a factual certainty. no amount of briefings by staff, his press office, his lawyers will convince voters here or leaders in other countries. that biden himself is in charge now someone over at the white house is making the big calls and it ain t this guy. i m well-meaning and i m an elderly man and i know what the mel i m doing. i m president and put this country back on its feet mile. memory is fine. laura: 67% think we are on the wrong track on this right back on track. all right. they sent him out last night to try to reassure the country. it just confirmed what everyone knows. initially the president of mexico, sisi did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. i talked to him. i convinced him to open the gate. laura: okay. me
Irwin joining us with. And kay la, i will start you with. At the windy white house there, as it relates to what were hearing from the Treasury Secretary, and from cnbc language, to Plain English here, what it means. Well, its significant because the Treasury Secretary is saying that as of early june, the federal government wont be able to pay its bills anymore. Its allowed by congress to borrow up to 31 trillion and change, but its going to hit that number next thursday. After that point, treasury is going to be looking under couch cushions to try to finds some additional money. It will be pinching pennies. And it says it will stop contributing or investing into some federal workers retirement accounts, to try to conserve some of that cash in order to avoid reaching that debt limit, or not being able to pay for allies and adversaries that hold the u. S. Debt. So certainly the Treasury Secretary is trying to call on congress and say we need a deal in the coming months. I spoke to a seni
irwin joining us with. and kay la, i will start you with. at the windy white house there, as it relates to what we re hearing from the treasury secretary, and from cnbc language, to plain english here, what it means. well, it s significant because the treasury secretary is saying that as of early june, the federal government won t be able to pay its bills anymore. it s allowed by congress to borrow up to $31 trillion and change, but it s going to hit that number next thursday. after that point, treasury is going to be looking under couch cushions to try to finds some additional money. it will be pinching pennies. and it says it will stop contributing or investing into some federal workers retirement accounts, to try to conserve some of that cash in order to avoid reaching that debt limit, or not being able to pay for allies and adversaries that hold the u.s. debt. so certainly the treasury secretary is trying to call on congress and say we need a deal in the coming months.
the debt limit is much more difficult, in part because many of the concessions he gave up were demanded by conservative hard liners in preparation for a major showdown over the debt limit. for one, the house rules eliminate the kind of end runs that the senate used most recently in 2021, to raise the debt limit, making it somewhat of an easier vote for their members. the conservative lawmakers who forced 14 humiliating defeats for kevin mccarthy on the house floor before finally electing him speaker. our team has spent the last couple of weeks talking to them. they want things like dollar for dollar spending cuts and balance the federal budget in ten years and extremely difficult if not impossible without tax increases or cuts to spending, and medicare and social security and food stamps and many say they should go down that road as part of the debt limit. and many see this as the major leverage point to force the democrat controlled senate and president biden to sign a bill that advan