The republicans are looking to drop the threat of a government shutdown this september if the affordable care act isn t dismantled. instead, they re looking at at approach which would result in something far worse, like economic arm getten. one of those reports comes from robert cost who writes sources tell me the house gop will probably avoid using a shutdown as leverage and instead use the debt limit and sequester fights as areas for potential trades. negotiations over increasing the debt limit have frequently been used to wring concessions out of of administration. there might be movement in that direction. delay obama care in exchange for increased debt limit. when hardball asked we were asked by hardball about these reports, to use the debt sealing limit, a spokes flan house speaker john boehner s office said no decisions have been made. we re looking at all the options to reach our goal of repealing this law that is causing premiums to soar and full time jobs to disappear
0 criminalized just because you fit a certain racial and age designation? and secondly, if someone is a criminal mind, all they have to do is sent people into your communicate to harm your family or introduce drugs that didn t fit the profile. if you re smart enough to know the profile, a real criminal doesn t meet the profile and can do all kinds of crime. thanks for watching. hardball starts right now. economic sabotage. there s news that some are we ve got a number of news sources. one is the national review, a conservative organization. not a right wing one. and the washington examiner a bit to the right of that with news stories saying people on the republican right are planning to step back from a government shutdown but to proceed to an escalation, defaulting on the national debt. that would be their threat. they would cut off if they could. and therefore of course default. what do you think of this? bad to worse, chris. i don t know. if you thought that holding the debt
Negotiates how robert mueller will question him. even trump s lawyer admitted such an encounter with mueller could put it the president at risk of perjury. he was so assured of himself yesterday, he welcomed the potential showdown with mueller. his message yesterday was bring it on. are you going to talk to mueller? i m looking forward to it actually. do you have a date set, mr. president? i don t know. i guess they re talking two or three weeks. i would love to do it. i have to say, subject to my lawyers and all of that but i would love to do it. to reach a higher standard you would do it under oath. absolutely. trump s posture raised a question central to his presidency so far, whether he really believes his notion of the truth will prevail over the facts or he s whistling past the political graveyard. betsy wood ruf from the daily beast, robert kostas, national reporter for the washington post and msnbc political analyst, robert be apuzzo with the new york times an
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I think they re going to use all their negotiating tactics they can. the interesting thing about robert kostas s explanation was sequestration. this is the give and take we can find a bigger deal on the budget deficit on the continuing resolution. you re missing my point. is there a threat here from people like rand paul and ted cruz and mike lee of utah from the right of your party, not the center of your party, but the hard right, that basically plays such hardball they re willing to threaten default on the united states dollar basically in order to get their way to kill the law of the land, which is the affordable care act? no, they re not going to default. what are all these reports about. they re going to try to push the fight from government shutdown which they understood was not a good fight to a bigger fight on the bigger fiscal realities facing the country. i want to give you another source. alex, this isn t just account national review. it s the washington custome