this is cnn breaking news. top of the new hour, thanks for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. democrats announcing moments ago they will tie an increase in the debt limit to the government spending bill. this move sets up a looming show down with republicans. for more, let s bring in manu raju and lauren fox on capitol hill. lauren, i want to start with you. walk us through what this decision means and how it will work. essentially democrats are daring republicans to vote against an increase in the debt ceiling. there of course is a looming deadline coming sometime in mid october to raise the country s debt limit for what democrats say is money that they have already borrowed. with republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that debt limit. here democrats are saying if you want
medical doctors with clear and concise answers to the questions you are all asking. we want to separate fact from fiction and help you enough gait this. at issue, what are the rules, what are the risks. what is the science? are politics usurping the science and when will this pandemic end? is the mixed messages andness information from the white house aren t enough, joe biden held a press conference that served to further confuse the issues and complicate that with what appears to be a recrete on his own mandates after the supreme court oral arguments and the writing is on the wall. are you saying covid is here to stay? i don t think covid is here to stay. but having covid in the environment and the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we are dealing with it now isn t here to stay. judge jeanine: you may recall joe s promises when he ran for president. isle shutdown the vie i ll shut down the virus, not the economy. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. jud
medical doctors with clear and concise answers to the questions you are all asking. we want to separate fact from fiction and help you enough gait this. at issue, what are the rules, what are the risks. what is the science? are politics usurping the science and when will this pandemic end? is the mixed messages andness information from the white house aren t enough, joe biden held a press conference that served to further confuse the issues and complicate that with what appears to be a recrete on his own mandates after the supreme court oral arguments and the writing is on the wall. are you saying covid is here to stay? i don t think covid is here to stay. but having covid in the environment and the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we are dealing with it now isn t here to stay. judge jeanine: you may recall joe s promises when he ran for president. isle shutdown the vie i ll shut down the virus, not the economy. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. jud
medical doctors with clear and concise answers to the questions you are all asking. we want to separate fact from fiction and help you enough gait this. at issue, what are the rules, what are the risks. what is the science? are politics usurping the science and when will this pandemic end? is the mixed messages andness information from the white house aren t enough, joe biden held a press conference that served to further confuse the issues and complicate that with what appears to be a recrete on his own mandates after the supreme court oral arguments and the writing is on the wall. are you saying covid is here to stay? i don t think covid is here to stay. but having covid in the environment and the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we are dealing with it now isn t here to stay. judge jeanine: you may recall joe s promises when he ran for president. isle shutdown the vie i ll shut down the virus, not the economy. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. jud
with shaun ley. hello and a warm welcome to the first of two special editions of dateline london. next weekend at the turn of the year, we will make some predictions for 2022. this weekend, we concentrate on the waning year and that seasonal classic. scrooge had three ghosts to remind scrooge. we don t have ghosts on this programme, we have guests. three distinguished journalists to reflect on the year. henry chu, isabel hilton and the bbc s lyse doucet. a very warm welcome for it to you all. thanks for breaking off to be with us on dateline. let us begin as you would expect with the virus. isabel, can you start by talking about how this year has been different from the previous year? this is the second year in which we had to learn to deal with covid. you re absolutely right. i think that fact has been the biggest shift. i think when it started, we probably all thought it would peak, and then it would be normal. but i think now we understand, this is a systemic crisis. it s