politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. in just hours, a meeting with crippling consequences if it leads to nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house to talk through a debt deal, but democrats already worrying prooid sounds close to caving. plus a picture of fear. new and disturbing video shows a baseball bat-wheeleding attacker. beating two staffers at a congressional office. and ron desantis nears a 2024 launch. he will enter the rain rays with infrastructure and big money, but also with deflated expectation was a months of fierce donald trump attacks. up first for us, time to get serious. debt talks are going nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house at 3:00 p.m. it s clear the principles enter the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome
Are you guys going to interject here or do i get to speak now . The town hall is for the president to speak to the voters of New Hampshire, not for this back and forth with the media. Thats number one. Number two, with respect to ukraine, i totally disagree. He did not say he was going to give over ukraine the way you intimate, van. He did not say van, what he said was is that he would actually look for a solution to end it quickly. He put 24 hours on it. What joe biden has done has been a disaster because initially with ukraine, joe biden wanted to give Vladimir Zelenskyy a ride out of dodge. It wasnt until people in moscow and ukraine here in the United States said this invasion is wrong and joe biden reversed course. Im trying to respond to everything coming up on the table. Lastly, we spent 22, 23 minutes talking about january 6th. We could have been talking about a whole lot of other issues. But let me are clear. What was said in this town hall about National Guard troops authoriz
2020. but if you look at polls among republican voters, it is, this man is who they want, as of now. he s far ahead of everybody else. we have not had a debate yet. i mean, not even a single debate. the field is still yet to be defined, whether it s myself or other candidates. you think the debates really matter that much? oh, my god, yes, absolutely. i think those debates, folks are going to see he is not the same. guy this is not 2016. he doesn t bring the same fire. there s no new ideas. he s just going to try to re-litigate what happened in 2020. but we all know exactly what happened there. he s going to be on the defensive. he s not gonna have the energy. so, i think there s a huge opportunity for the new generation, the new voice the republican party, new ideas to come to fruition. there s still a lot of play here before we even get to the first of the nation primary in new hampshire, which is next january. so, i understand the polls. when someone pulls and says
are you guys going to interject here or do i get to speak now? the town hall is for the president to speak to the voters of new hampshire, not for this back and forth with the media. that s number one. number two, with respect to ukraine, i totally disagree. he did not say he was going to give over ukraine the way you intimate, van. he did not say van, what he said was is that he would actually look for a solution to end it quickly. he put 24 hours on it. what joe biden has done has been a disaster because initially with ukraine, joe biden wanted to give vladimir zelenskyy a ride out of dodge. it wasn t until people in moscow and ukraine here in the united states said this invasion is wrong and joe biden reversed course. i m trying to respond to everything coming up on the table. lastly, we spent 22, 23 minutes talking about january 6th. we could have been talking about a whole lot of other issues. but let me are clear. what was said in this town hall about national g
insurrection. mr. perry asked for a pardon to, i m sorry. mr. perry? did he talk to directly? he did. congressman scott perry, responsible for the oversight of the federal government. i think there is a different sheriff in town. i think you will see a lot of subpoenas. tonight, congressman adam schiff on the chaos of the maga congress. then, the latest on the election denier accused of orchestrating a campaign of violence against democrats. the dea prosecutor in the case, joining me live. plus, involuntary manslaughter charges for alec baldwin. why the prosecutor thinks, she can prove criminal negligence. and, why there is no reason to skeptical when george santos says, i am not a drag queen, and did not let a dog die. all in, starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. the new republican congress led by speaker mccarthy is vowing to give the white house some serious headaches. so far, the biden team in an unexpected way with barely restrain