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this week we are going to be talking about video games, but not perhaps in the way that you might think. i don t know about you, lara, but my boy is now playing more games online with his friends, which means i m starting to have to think about the type of games that he wants to play and who he s talking to online. are you at that stage yet? no, we re not therejust yet, but we are hoping, when the time comes, she s just now into the nice, light hearted stuff, i really don t like shooting games. yeah, exactly. we know that there are constant suspicions about links between violent games and violent people, and that s something that infuriates the gaming community, but that is not actually what we are talking about this week. we are notjust talking about the playing of the games but also the chat that goes on alongside them. that can be within the games or on other chat platforms that gamers have open at the same time. and although a lot of the chat is about gameplay orjus ....
along party lines to prevent a government shutdown and to suspend the debt ceiling, but it seems like this bill is dead on arrival in the senate. are republicans really willing to let the country default? it sure looks that way. look, people have to understand. the debt ceiling, when you raise the debt ceiling, you are not authorizing future debt and future spending. you are in effect acknowledging the debt and the spending that has already occurred. and of course most of that occurred under president trump and republican-controlled senate. so it is kind of the high point of hypocrisy to now refuse to pay the bills that you ran up, you know, while you were while you were in control. you know, there is just a tiny number of republicans who have indicated any openness to this. in the end, democrats may have to figure out a way to do this, like almost everything its on a party line basis. but as usual, we are sailing into crisis without a clear port in sight. kirst ....
giving way or is more pain around the corner? in wyoming, the battle for the soul of the republican party. prior president george bush starts a campaign fundraiser for liz cheney. just today president biden is meeting with the house speaker, the top democrat in the senate, the point person for house progressives and a leader of a centrist group. that is only a partial list. at issue? well, just about everything. the size of a giant democratic spending plan. how that money is split up among a long list of democratic policy goals. how to keep our promise to centrists to vote for a separate br bridge plan on monday and how to do that when they insist that both plans need to succeed at the same time. joe biden has his own version of the new deal, in midterm election year having failed to deliver on campaign promises. let s start with phil mattingly. phil, lbj, fdr, joe biden on the block today. a pretty chilling day at the white house given what s at stake. i think wh ....
hope biden is the secret sauce. he is also meeting with progressive lawmakers, many of whom say they will vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill unless tied to the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. the house passed a bill to prevent the government shutdown, but republicans refuse to support that so this might be going nowhere in the senate. cnn s senior white house correspondent, phil mattingly and lauren fox are with us now. phil, you re describing these meetings as the most expansive, in-person engagement the president has ever taken since he took office. who s he going to see at the white house and do we know what the president s plan is? look, it just underscores the stakes of this moment. for the president, his entire domestic agenda hanging in the balance here and two waring factions here inside the party that he s got to figure out some way to reconcile. our photojournalist just spotted nancy pelosi pulling up to the white house. her meeting with ....
date on hold awaiting the fda ruling, after weeks of controversy and confusion. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin with poib s meeting with key democrats tonight, as he fights to prevent his domestic agenda from collapsing. we re covering the breaking story from both sides of pennsylvania avenue. we are standing by on capitol hill, but first to the white house. jeff zeleny is joining us. jeff, the president is meeting face-to-face behind closed doors right now. give us the latest. reporter: wolf, the president is in his third meeting of three today. he s about 30 minutes into a meeting with progressives. that s senator bernie sanders, a few other senators, and five house members. wolf, this is designed to be president biden s full-court press, listening to the concerns from across the wide spectrum of the democratic party. at ....