experiment. new reporting about a conservative lawyer working for former president trump and his six-point plan to undo the 2020 election. up first though for us days of consequence here in the nation s capital. a government shutdown looms in nine days. the united states collides with its borrowing limit in a month. democrats are trying to address those big issues while in the middle of an unruly school-yard fight over a giant spending plan that is a make-or-break moment for the biden agenda. in that fight there are some big democratic family divides over the $3.5 trillion price tag and over the policies all that money pays for. house speaker nancy pelosi telling lawmakers in a closed-door meeting this morning they need to work things out and they need to do it by next week. one of her top lieutenants says that will happen. we re going to get this done. we always do. we re a coalition, not a cult, and so we embrace the fact that people have different ideas and perspectives, but at