For . Go to battle at x. Com today and get 70 off every single thing. Oh, rafael roma at the Georgia State capitol in atlanta. This is cnn this is cnn breaking news hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday. Im Fredricka Whitfield and weaving again with this Breaking News Polls are now closed in russia following a threeday president ial election. And with no genuine opposition candidates appearing on the ballot, the outcome whats never in doubt, Vladimir Putin is expected to win the vote that will keep his grip on power through 2030 he has already russia longestserving ruler since soviet dictator joseph stalin. Weve got full coverage for you. Cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow. Fred pleitgen in berlin, and also with a cnn contributor and former Moscow Bureau chief Jill Dougherty so matthew, you first, what is the significance of the Election Results that are coming in . Well, i think its pretty significant in the sense that weve had 50 of the vote counted so far
so every debt limit debate i ve been a part of, which is way too many at this point, came with a price. john boehner said we either need to cut spending, reform entitlements, a variety of hostage demands. this does not. mitch mcconnell has said republicans aren t lifting the debt limit and that s it, they re just not doing it, and democrats need to do it with budget reconciliation, which is the fast-track 50-vote process that you could raise the debt limit with just democratic votes. there s not much time. we re 19 days to the limit. democrats just congress needs to get going because everything takes a long time. i want to play for you what senator pat toomey, pennsylvania republican, said about the debt limit. it is not about past spending. it is about future spending. consider for instance this 3.5, which is really $5.5, trillion spending bill. last time i checked, that hasn t passed yet.
democrats taking over the house. so republicans have three options available to them. they can see the light now and start proposing reasonable demands and not hostage demands. two, they can see the light at the last minute and just cave. or number three, they can not see the light and force boehner to put something on the floor that gets passed with democratic votes mainly. and that might lead to a coup attempt but i ll let other panelists to respond and get to that later. the party does seem to be fighting a civil war of sorts. let s listen to how things got heated on the floor last night. i don t think ever in the history of the senate have we had a 21-hour filibuster and then the persons carrying out the filibuster voted for the issue they were filibustering. why is majority leader harry reid going to vote the same way you are going to vote. why is every democrat in this
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