now we expect that they are going to meet on tuesday, next week, to make a decision about how to go forward. hold on a second. next tuesday? why are you meeting seven days from now? the fact is that the house is on recess right now and kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, is a broad. so as soon that they are going to be able to get together and have this conversation is next tuesday. that is exactly right. a lot of lawmakers, including mitt romney today argued why are we waiting so long? this is an emergency, we know congress takes time to figure these things out, we need to be on the sooner. hadn t president biden said he was not going to meet? i don t know if he ever stated that, but the feeling was that he was not going to meet with mccarthy because he didn t feel that the republicans were negotiating with good faith. what had been the holdup until now? one of the arguments the white house had made was that they were not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling. the
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done this to various, you know like i, mean it s actually good training, and a good reminder for me on capitol hill, like how we can get some attention from senators, right? i can use your strategy. like the red carpet strategy in the halls of the dirksen office building. that was just waving and jumping well, try it. we ll see if it works. you know, everyone has their own strategy. much more echoey in that building than on that carpet. senator bernie sanders would love that. yeah, he would love that. waiting for response on that i think the question should be, who was the best accent, me or bernie sanders? you re right. we won t answer that because then i would have to repair that relationship. you re right. so, what was your favorite moment? i think if we have some sound of it, there was a moment when someone from the 1990 show wings, which was very bad for me. i don t we have the sound. do we have that sound? we do let s listen to it. harry, i know you, b
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