List, quote, this decision has nothing to do with our view of the representable conduct of the houthis and the kidnapping of american citizens. Removing them from the terror list because that would somehow improve humanitarian consequences of a terrorist designation. How does this link to iran . We will investigate and is Breaking News on the Iran Nuclear Program as well. The Lincoln Project loses another cofounder, Jennifer Warren is leaving because of the grotesque and inappropriate behavior, her words, of cofounder jeff weaver. The project responds is actually leaving because he wouldnt pay for more money and give her a tv show. By the way republicans are pushing the congressional sergeant at arms to find nancy pelosi. Apparently say; 509 am at february 2nd she didnt fully clear the new Metal Detectors as some republicans are facing 5,000 fines themselves for skipping that same security measure. Kevin cork kicks us off with a 17 of the Biden Administration. This is a real storyline
about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
of course, you are sitting in iowa and you have republicans flocking in fast and furious to try to win iowa and get ready for the caucus as biden is trying to seize the national stage here. it is hard to imagine either side getting a lot of credit from the country for what is happening this week. it s a significant development. for the president, for doing what he said he would do, work with republicans and for speaker mccarthy as well. he has been underestimated throughout the first part of this year. the white house never thought he would be able to keep his republicans unified. that is what happened. i can tell you, being out here for several days talking to voters on both sides, there s not a lot of applause for washington. there s not a lot of credit for averting a crisis from happening. there is no doubt president biden despite if he doesn t on a friday night, how we consume the news now and everything that is chopped up and shared, this will get into the bloodstream
there s a game seven back in boston! good morning, everyone. i mean, the ultimate buzzer-beater there, when they didn t know for a moment, did they get it in, did they not. is it going to count? oh, it counted. and tonight the boston celtics will try to make the greatest comeback in nba playoff history if they beat the miami heat tonight, the celtics would be the first-ever team to win game seven after losing the first three games of the series. also this morning, we are about to get an update from officials in davenport, iowa, where a search and rescue operation is underway after a six-story apartment building partially collapsed. plus, president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy reaching a deal on the debt limit. now, though, they have to persuade lawmakers to pass it. we ll speak with the white house moments from now. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin in davenport, iowa, this hour, where as rahel mentioned, any minute now, we are expecting to
the debt ceiling deal. then white house officials will be briefing democratic members of congress, as we continue to await the actual text of the bill. the sales job will be crucial as biden and mccarthy both have to convince their members that each side is not happy about it. i do expect the there will be democratic support. once we have the ability to actually be fully briefed by the white house. right now, the democrats are very upset. there is nothing in the bill for them, there is not one thing in the bill for democrats. from what i can say, republicans didn t get any of the big things they were asking for. they didn t get massive long term cuts to programs for the poor or middle class. they didn t get the repeal of the presidents signature for renewable energy. they didn t get big, new requirements pushing people out of the medicaid program. we will take a look at what s on the table, but it s pretty clear the president bone crypto most reckless thing that the democ