talks like a campaign, and this week, florida governor ron desantis could make his 2024 campaign official. after a weekend of trying to steal the spotlight from donald trump, putting the former president as a loser. a night witness alligator boots and all road trips across the state taking advantage of trump being forced to cancel a planned rally due to bad weather. desantis flipped burgers and it did all he could to call out trump s effect on the gop but did not dare call out trump by name. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024, it s going to get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing and that has infected our party in recent years. the time for excuses is over. i mean, the courage! clearly talking about trump without saying trump s name. here s the thing, desantis might be younger, he might be more into politics and then donald trump, at least on the national stage, but there is little daylight betwe
they look a little different each time there. been times where congress get suspended enforcement for 4 to 6 weeks until a deal gets worked out. i think the one thing to look for for the white house, they will want to protect all of their signature priorities. but they can agree to some cuts. it could be pretty painless. and the main thing, is it house republicans want this only for one year. it kicks us into next spring going into the presidential. it is foolish, it s irresponsible. i would suspect the white house is going to insist that this be a two-year deal that gets through the 24 election. eugene, i gotta ask about a quirky solution that comes up every time we have a debt ceiling crisis, that is the 14th amendment, the trillion dollar coin. i want you to take a listen to what senator chris murphy had to say about those. i don t want to give joe biden advice, but i think we should do our job. i think that s a precedent, to just absolve congress from being adults. i think th
major pieces of his legislative agenda. and tonight, we re learning new details about what the president told members of his own party. cbs nikole killion joins us from the cab tol. nikole, what did the president said? reporter: norah, president biden urged the fighting factions in his party to compromise, and he isn t putting a timetable on when to get it done. president biden trekked to capitol hill late friday to rally fellow democrats around his signature priorities. it doesn t matter whether it s in six minutes, six days, or six weeks we re going to get it done. reporter: the high-stakes visit capped off a day of discussions among democrats. we re in the middle of mashed potatoes or sausage making. that s what legislation is. reporter: dug in over differences. we need to be real. are we going to deliver universal pre-k. to this country or not? are we going to expand healthcare to our seniors and include vision and dental, or not? reporter: progressives yoacknowledg
week, they advanced a spending bill and it s make or break when it comes to infrastructure. nbc white house correspondent nancy ohhas more. what happened on the hill? reporter: first facing a deadline to keep the government open by this friday, republicans blocking a bill to fund the government and extend the country s good credit until december. so democrats will try again. this week, make-or-break decisions on the president s signature priorities, a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan and the massive climate and social program spending currently at $3.5 trillion. if we do that, the country will be in great shade. reporter: democrat joe
to avoid default, raising the debt ceiling used to be automatic in this country. now it s a maga-related matter senate republicans, all of them to be exact, fear donald trump way more than throwing the country into default meanwhile, house democrats are locked in a stalemate over the president s infrastructure agenda it s blue on blue, friendly fire and it s a fight that is putting biden s signature priorities at risk earlier today as he received his booster shot on live television at the white house, the president gave this assessment of what he is facing i m a born optimist i think things are going to go well i have meetings tonight, tomorrow, and for the next little bit what does it say for your agenda and your president what s happened victory is what at stake. i may not be by the end of the week we ve got three things to do the debt ceiling, continued