why did mitch mcconnell do this? then twist the arms and will put up the names of the 11 republicans that caved. you know, why at the last minute did mitch mcconnell do what he said he wouldn't do? >> here's what he said. i like mitch, i like all my colleagues. we are in a bad spot but self-inflicted. he said that if we continue to do what we promise to do, there's democrats will change the filibuster rule and blow up the senate. we can't let it happen like that. when president trump was in power, he changed the rules every day warning us to get our way and i said, no. i've known timothy for the democratic party threatening to use the filibuster to implement their socialist agenda. at the end of the day, we cannot live this way. we should have stood our ground and played this out. if i wouldn't believe they would blow up the senate over this period of >> sean: senator, hang on a second. joe manchin said today again that he wouldn't use the nuclear option. it will as a threat, it was an idle threat that would not have

mitch mcconnell is not going to blink. mitch mcconnell has never cared of what he said yesterday. he's in conflict with what is to do. today you're not going to get any republican votes. they can't be shame. the democrats need to find a way to do this as quickly as possible, as painless as possible, as early as possible, so you don't see tremor. there's no victory lap in this. well i'd like us to get rid of the debt ceiling, entirely, by the way there's rumors that the democrats now are looking at getting rid of the filibuster. if they do that, that clearly opens the door for exceptions like voting rights. and so that's fascinating but no you just have to get this done, and you have to stop figuring out, can you play a chess game with mitch mcconnell. you cannot. he's going to sit there until his face turns blue, and the democrats are going to have to do this with in 50, votes and just get it done, so you don't do outsized image to the economy. >> david where the democrats going to get the votes to change the filibuster rules? >> that's the question. could you get 50 to say, we're

what would mitch mcconnell do. >> well, mitch mcconnell would use all the power at his disposal to press forward and to achieve this strategic political goal to achieve his agenda. and i think the democrats have to face up to the intransjens of the republican majority in this way and separate out the issues to two categories. and there are two issues that are moral issues. the debt ceiling is a moral issue. and voting rights is a moral issue. and the filibuster should not stand above the outcome to those two moral issues. now, the question of the debt ceiling, what we are talking about, is a default on the full faith and credit of the united states of america. so this is not a debate around whether joe biden and the democratic congress wants to spend too much money. and there are a lot of people who look at that amount of money and say that that amount worries them. i would be one of those people. that's not what this debate is about. what this debate is about is whether the $8 trillion of spending, the money that was already spent, gone, poof, spent it, on the national credit card -- wh

mitch mcconnell offering democrats an agreement to raise u.s. debt ceiling through this november, this would alleviate some of the concerns about the default. this is based on people who are familiar with the situation as reported by bloomberg news. we want to go right to washington right now are emily wilkins is standing by with the latest. what do we know right now? emily: this was the announcement made by senator mitch mcconnell that he was going to offer two options. potentially to delay this debate over the debt ceiling until the end of november and pass a short-term raise of the debt ceiling. that there would be no chance of defaulting on october 18.

one quick thing, i want to talk about mitch mcconnell and the rest too. we take in $320 billion a month in this country. taxes are paid whether the government is open or closed. you pay your payroll taxes whether the government is open or closed. $320 billion a month. the debt service every month is $44 billion! that leaves approximately $280 billion left. tell mike to pay for what? to pay for everything else social security is separate because that is separate, neither of those are in danger despite with the liar in chief says in the oval office. as a matter of priority under the 14th amendment, federal pensions have to be paid as well as veteran benefits have to be paid. beyond that, there is no question about us falling out of favored non -- credits. there's plenty of money to play the debt service. the problem is there is not enough money to pay for what the democrats want. that is why they keep complaining and threatening. they want to raise the debt ceiling to pay for trillions and trillions of dollars, the redistribution of wealth in their marxist

schumer: asked mitch mcconnell. it is on his shoulders. -- ask mitch mcconnell. we are willing to cast the 50 votes ourselves. all he has to do is get out of the way. next. we are going to stay here until we get this done. reporter: is this vote on the debt ceiling tomorrow -- if this vote on the debt ceiling is blocked by republicans, would you change filibuster rules? sen. schumer: the best way to get this done is for republicans to get out of the way, let the 50 democrats do it. that is what we are working forward tomorrow. reporter: back to your response on the give and take on reconciliation, where do you think democrats can give a little bit more to get to that -- sen. schumer: i will not negotiate in public. we had a good meeting. we began getting into the nitty-gritty of how we get this done. we are going to get it done. we want to get all of it done by the 31st of october. we are making good progress. democrats of all different -- the progressive folks, more moderate folks all realize there will have to be give on either side to get this done. reporter:

biden knows mitch mcconnell very well, that he is not someone who typically blinks. so can they build enough pressure to get people in the caucus there to vote for this. you know when they talk about this process, the husbands are generally left in the dark. >> millions of americans aren't paying attention, but they know this is what mitch mcconnell does. he's the best at playing politics and he's made it clear, he's going to make life as difficult as possible for joe biden, calling it biden's inflation, biden's problem. when you're talking about the debt ceiling, he is talking to every if -- one. all of this makes it very difficult for biden. >> stephanie rule rkt lee ann caldwell, mike memoli, thank you for joining us today. i appreciate it. >>> the first in-person since the start of the pandemic is now on the books. the list of items on the docket this term, making it potentially the most controversial in recent history. looking at abortion, looking at gun laws, looking at religious rights. a group of justices arguably leaning more to the right after. take us insi

you do not play chicken with mitch mcconnell. he sees this as a political gain, and he seized chuck schumer as being a weak majority leader. and when he sees weakness, he pounces. so yes, chuck schumer can do a lot. but it does not seem like he is willing to. or maybe the president does not want him to. but boy, should he step up his game. >> i do not know much susan, but your comment just now should be clipped off and plead all day during programming tomorrow, because they are important. and there is a verb for what we are seeing and that is the charlie browning of the democratic party. cornell belcher, susan del percio, two friends of this broadcast with our thanks on this monday night. coming up after briefly being compared to the grinch. doctor fauci tries to set the record straight about holiday gathering this winter. instantly clear everyday congestion with vicks sinex saline. for fast drug free relief vicks sinex. instantly clear everyday congestion. and try vicks sinex children's saline. safe and gentle relief for childre

>> i want to play for you a bit of what mitch mcconnell had to say today. he was up in his office where he works by gaslight. came down and said this to reporters. >> i implore them not to play russian roulette with the american economy. we have been down this path before when you did not have divided government and the party in the majority got the job done. >> i am terpted to ask does he think we're stupid? what's going on here? >> the answer is yes he does think you're stupid. look. the american debt gone up more under mchl as majority leader than any other majority leader in history. start with tennessee. 40% of the tennessee budget comes from the federal government. only four states have more dependence on the federal debt. don't giver the money to tennessee. it is a farce. it is about power and a manipulation for power's sake. i think david is right. we have a governing president now and will get through this but mitch mcconnell is someone who's said on the record he would vote for donald trump in 2024. this is after the instigation of a riot and had

mcconnell and why he's offering it right now. >> so the big reason that we're told mitch mcconnell has presented these options to his conference is because he does not want democrats to use a specific carve out of the senate filibuster rules to push through a debt ceiling package without any republican support. he's worried that that could lead to a slippery slope as it relates to the filibuster. what instead he's offering are two options for democrats. the first being a clean reconciliation package that wouldn't involve republicans at all, but with the caveat that republicans wouldn't try to do anything to get in the way of this process to slow it down. the big area being the vote-a-rama process where they can add a bunch of amendments to slow the process down and force democrats to take tough votes. the other would be a temporary allowance of bringing this bill to the floor without any type of filibuster or blocking of the legislation but in agreement for just a short-term lifting of the debt ceiling but specifically tied to a number. that could be a dangerous political position beca

do you think mitch mcconnell blinked? >> no. what i think mitch mcconnell said is consistent with what he said all along. we're not going to default. we must not default and we won't. >> neil: he also said he would never help out. democrats have to fix this on their own. now they're not on their own. >> ultimately the proposals that he makes require the democrats to have 50 votes plus 1 to break the tie. republicans would allow democrats to get on to that kind of a bill, the debt limit votes would be provided by republicans and democrats that are interesting. the increase in the debt is driven by two things. one, the 1.9 trillion package at the beginning of the year, march, where no republican was included on purpose. they did it unreconciliation. that was for covid. more than half of it didn't go to covid. went for social spending. now this big package, the 3.5 or $5 trillion package. a lot of new spending programs that will be in place for probably forever. so this is why republicans are saying, you know, we're okay to let you

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i sometimes wonder if he gets his roles confused with mitch mcconnell, because mitch mcconnell seems to be calling the shots in the senate. i mean, along with krysten sinema and joe manchin, true. but schumer knew three months ago that mitch mcconnell was not going to help him at all. as a matter of fact, he said he was going to get in the way of their agenda wherever possible. so the fact he has done nothing should not be a surprise. you do not play chicken with mitch mcconnell. he sees this as a political game and he sees chuck schumer as being a weak majority leader. and when he sees weakness, he pounces. so yes, chuck schumer can do a lot. but it doesn't seem like he's willing to or maybe the president doesn't want him to, but he step up his game. >> i don't know much, susan, but your comments just now should be clipped off and played all day during programming tomorrow, because they're important. and there's a verb for what we're seeing, and that is the charlie browning of the democratic party. cornell belcher, susan del percio. >>> after being called the grinch, dr. fauci tries

this is what mitch mcconnell said. this will remove excuses and give the unified democratic government more than enough time to pass standalone debt limit legislation through reconciliation the. let's take the first part. chuck schumer, the democratic leader, hasn't commented, but democrats leaving a meeting with schumer told bloomberg they are ready to accept this short-term debt limit hike proposal, but not agree on reconciliation. reconciliation would be if the democrats use a special process to pass the debt limit, raise the debt ceiling to a certain amount based on 50 democratic votes. they don't want their fingerprints on it. that is what is going down a. as for reconciliation, schumer has said, it is too cumbersome. mitch mcconnell said, we can streamline the process. we can have it make two weeks instead of four. a lot of people say the democrats don't know what they are going to do. this is mcconnell calling the democrats' bluff. they have to get this done and have to get it done soon. yvonne: we heard from th

as for the president, he said it's up to mitch mcconnell. but he told reporters last night, maybe it isn't. >> reporter: are democrats considering raising the debt limit using a carveout with the filibuster to raise the debt limit? >> i think that's a real possibility. >> this is not how a healthy democracy operates. leigh ann caldwell has the latest from capitol hill. monica alba is at the white house for us. at what point -- where are we in the process? it seems as if democrats want to methodically show that the republicans are not cooperating here. at what point do they have to start looking at the go it alone approach? i don't know how many times they need to learn this lesson, mitch mcconnell is impervious to these -- to sort of being shamed into doing this. ask justice merrick garland. oh, right. >> reporter: we're at the brink right now. there's a lot of decisions that democrats have to make. in about an hour and a half, there's going to be another vote, a procedural vote to move to the debt limit and, of course, that needs support of

mitch mcconnell took to the senate floor. here's what mcconnell had to say. >> the majority don't need our votes. they just want partisan -- they want a bipartisan shortcut around procedural hurdles that can clear on their own. and they want that shortcut so they can pivot right backing at partisan spending as fast as possible. >> now, president biden said that republicans do not need to give their votes and said all they need do is make sure not to filibuster. but there is is senate minority leader mitch mcconnell saying that he's going to snapped the way of democrats trying to raise the debt ceiling. mitch mcconnell wrote a letter saying this is really the democrats' problem to fix. judy: there was also disagreement among democrats among two huge pieces of legislation, reconciliation, any movement on that? yamiche: the president is still trying to get the party on the same page the president blamed certainly senators manchin and sinema saying that they are the two democrats that they couldn't get to back his plans. but they

will mitch mcconnell face any consequences? these are people like to chris, lindsey graham angry that republicans -- like ted cruz, lindsey graham angry. marianna: republicans will not be there to raise the debt limit next time so democrats will have to go it alone even though they are saying they don't want to do that. they do think republicans are going to blink again. >> eamon, you are on this show because as soon as i heard about the debt limit i said where is he? what do you make of mitch mcconnell's decision, how much business leaders warning about the dangers play into that and how does this relate to people trying to survive in this economy? eamon: business leaders were enormously influential, it is stupid and dangerous to go down this path because it could have enormous applications for the american economy. separating the politics of the debt ceiling in which both sides are trying to -- they want to put the onus on weather. congress votes to spend the money and then the treasury has to go and get that money, either fr

howie: here's another mitch mcconnell critic. take a look. >> mitch is not the guy, he's not the right guy, he's not doing the job. he gave them a lifeline. >> howie: look, the media love republican in-fighting and love when donald trump goes after mitch mcconnell. they used to be allies. >> no love lost at this point in the relationship. not surprised to hear the former president's comments about mcconnell. mcconnell wants to make sure the people in the room with him, the republican senators are behind him. there are some hurt feelings. some thought this didn't work as well as they hoped. he's still the leader. if he wins back the majority in 2022 they'll be happier on capitol hill in terms of the republicans. howie: he's a leader of some republicans who don't want to play the debt ceiling game and trump is the leader of the entire party and has a different view. the democrats, let's take a look at video, it's really powerful. chuck schumer is giving a speech and joe manchin behind him, take a look, he's just beside himself, he

don't let mitch mcconnell fold. stand strong. that's really probably the only reason that you just got that chicken statement from ted cruz because he's terrified of donald trump and has to be solicitous all the time. they were willing to tank the economy to please donald trump i guess? the fact that john thune said we don't want our name on increasing the debt limit. they don't care about the issue, they want to run ads saying only the other guys did it. this is so irresponsible, david. i don't know your comments. i'm just going to let you talk. >> it's for the most part no longer a governing party. you know, claire remembers there were times even though it's not like washington was laughs and giggles when she was there, but you could get stuff done. this party is sworn to trump, denialism, sworn to destroying the democracy. the only reason mcconnell blinked was he heard from manchin and sinema they would have a carve out on the filibuster. we've got better things to talk about. listen, the republicans don't want to do that. it'

what political position is mitch mcconnell in? a lot of people look at him -- especially on the right he is always negotiating for a position of strength. in this case it sounds like the democratic discussion about the filibuster and going nuclear for this carve out for the debt seal could have spooked mcconnell? >> it could have. just the recap. we were approaching a serious deadline and grinkmanship up here on capitol hill over the debt limit. we are just over a week away before the country could default. as you mentioned, they have postponed the procedural test vote that needs the support of 60 senators which was expected to fail. the reason, because republicans were not expected to offer their support something that leader mcconnell has been saying over and over again. now, there have been discussions among the democratic caucus for a couple weeks, auto i'm told, about a filibuster carveout, but things really came to a head yesterday with an entire democratic caucus discussed it behind closed doors during their weekly lunch me

mitch mcconnell says that's the only way i'll let you do this. when mitch mcconnell commits to writing, he tends to see it through. the strategy is try to ashame th the republicans. this republican party is past the point of being shamble. i worry the democrats have to use the reconciliation process cumbersome it is or get the bmoy and political will to change the filibuster rules. >> i want to change the filler buster rules because check schs -- chuck schumer is setting up a vote. democrats have the majority in the house and senate. are democrats letting republicans who are in the majority, who have the majority rule because they are refusing to get rid of it? >> yes. so on issue after issue, this is a theme. it's the debt ceiling. it's voting rights. it's the build back better agenda. democrats are trying to find ways to pass all these measures on simple party line votes and it's impossible under the senate rules to pass all those things that they want to pass with just party line votes. the simple and most straightforward solution here is to j

and mitch mcconnell is saying oh, no, no, i'm going to filibuster it. the obvious solution here for the democrats is to carve out a new exception to the filibuster rules and go nuclear for the sake of raising the debt ceiling. the question is whether the democrats are going to do that or whether they're going to get backed into a corner here by mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell is saying he wants the democrats to use this reconciliation process, the same process they're using to pass the biden build back better economic agenda, they want them to use the same process to raise the debt ceiling. chuck schumer and joe biden with don't want to do that. among other reasons, it would take a lot of time. janet yellen has said the debt ceiling needs to be lift bid october 18th. you need to hold all kinds of procedural votes to be able to do a debt ceiling increase in reconciliation. it's very risky to take up all that time on the clock. the democrats are saying we're not going to do reconciliation. mitch mcconnell is saying that's the only way i'm going to let yo

so yamiche, we shedder today from the president and the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, wre does everything stand? >> well both sides are dug in as debt ceiling, it is unclear which side will blink. president biden took to the white houspodium today and he delivered pointed remarks. he accused republicans of playing quote russian roulette with the u.s. economy. he said that the debt seang is not about new spending. he said this is about whether or not the u.s. will be able to pay its bills. here is some of what the president had to say. >> not only are republicans ksh-- their job, they are threatening to use their power to prevent us from doing our job, saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think quite frankly it is hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful. >> now president biden also said that it is wrong for republicans to link the debt ceiling limit and raising the debt limiwith his infrastructure plan though the gop has said if democrats can pass the infrastructure plan, that 3.5 trillion plan with only democratic support they should also be able to raise the ket cei

also mitch mcconnell. here's more from iowa. >> mitch mcconnell did haven't the courage to challenge the election. he's only a leader because he raises a lot of money and he gives it to senators. he should have challenged the election. this bill is a sinister combination of job killing tax hikes and woke fascism that will destroy our nation. and to think that we had 11 republicans go along with an ext extension. headed up by mitch mcconnell. can you believe that? mitch mcconnell. >> he's talking about the debt limit there. joining me now is scott jennings, cnn commentator and former special assistance to george w. bush. nice to see you. the debt limit discussion aside, i don't want to talk about the policy of that, but what we have here is a contest between trump and mcconnell that has been fears in the making. you say they have fundamentally different aims. >> yeah. mcconnell's aims are simple. it is to regain control of the senate and do whatever he has to do to stifle the democratic agenda until republi

and the turning on mitch mcconnell. so much more to this story. thanks manu very much. i appreciate it. also tonight, the raise of anti-asian hate unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic is actually rooted in a disturbing pattern of scapegoating and violence against asians throughout american history. and that is the takeaway from lisa ling's latest episode of "this is life requewith lisa li which returns for its eighth season this sunday night and centers around the 1982 murder of vincent chin, a chinese-american killed in detroit giby two auto workers who blamed chin for their economic woes. here's a clip. >> by 1982 one in five detroit residents were out of a job. >> it's few and far between, jobs are hard to come by. how about you? you hiring? >> the only thing i can say is move somewhere else. >> suddenly, after a lifetime of well-paying jobs where they could afford a house, two cars, a recreational vehicle, a summer cottage, suddenly it was wiped out. >> the only answer is charity. >> people became destitute. the frustration turned into anger. people wanted to know

schumer/mcconnell less than that, is this a victory to the democrats and a thank you to mitch mcconnell? >> somewhat less fraught but fraught, global economic collapse if the u.s. defaulted on his debt and yes, mitch mcconnell blinked, no question about it. chalk it up as a victory for the democrats. they get, yes, only a few weeks, maybe a couple of months of extension of the debt ceiling but politics will be exactly the same when this comes up again. you know, when it runs out again and we're once again at the brink. meanwhile they have time once again, not just to agree on the reconciliation bill, build back better agenda, but also to talk about it. and to explain it, first decide what's going to be in it, then let people know so they can sell it. that's what they ought to get about doing now. they have a big victory today, but let's get on with governing now. those approval numbers will stabilize. hopefully for biden, go up. >> tim, two things, number one to potential readers, your dramatic depiction of the criminal complaint against korey lewandowski this week was required reading.

why would mitch mcconnell make this offer right now? there's a lot of talk that the business community would start to weigh-in. i asked mitch mcconnell that question yesterday. he side stepped my question. at some point you'll have the bankers in new york and investors in new york get on the phone and say to both the democratic and republican leaders, you can't let this crisis go into deep next week. the deadline according to janet yellen is october 18. martha? >> martha: chad, thanks very much. let's bring in louisiana senator john kennedy that joins us now. welcome. good to have you here. what do you think about this today? >> i know what i think at the moment. i'll go into this more later, martha. we have some folks scurrying around like headless chickens. my position has not changed. my democratic colleagues want to pass a spending orgy reconciliation bail that will raise $2 trillion in taxes, trillions in debt that would tax, spend and regulate america into european neosocialism. i'm not for it. i'm not going to vote for it. now, t

minority leader mitch mcconnell caved and allowed a vote to raise the debt ceiling until december. and was immediately attacked by the former president and his allies, even though this vote was to pay the bills racked up primarily under his leadership, during the trump administration. trump is still the most influential person in the republican party. he's holding a rally in iowa tonight. susan, can mcconnell continue to thread this needle? or is it trump's way or the highway? >> well, i do not think that mitch mcconnell acted because of donald trump in any measure since donald trump has left office, frankly. but what's interesting here is, now, let me first say, i wish the democrats had a governing partner. they do not. the republicans have no interest of stepping up and trying to govern with this president or with their democrat counterparts. they're sitting on their hands and it's despicable how close we got to the debt ceiling going literally off a cliff. that being said, mitch mcconnell, the self-proclaimed grim reaper, does not care, nor can he be shamed. he wrote a book call

mcconnell, mitch mcconnell is very, rich he got rich in a very old-fashioned way, he married the money. he has somewhere around the order of $30 million. maybe more. mitt romney, very very rich man. these are the kinds of people, who are hurt very badly by the kind of market crash, that she would have. if we were to crash into the debt ceiling. and so, my confidence in republican senators especially, own personal interest, in their own personal wealth, has always guided me, through the panic stages of the debt ceiling raisman ship. with that expectation. but this time, it does include this inner realm, that mitch mcconnell is teaching the democrats, that joe manchin, the angus king, the people who've been holding back on that notion, of adjusting the 60 vote threshold, he's teaching them, the best lesson yet this year. that's actually happening. on the senate floor at the moment. about why that 60 vote threshold needs to go. >> i mean, everything that's terrifying, everything that is dysfunctional in our politics can in some ways be attributed at this point to, filibuster. it's not onl

headed up by mitch mcconnell. can you believe that, mitch mcconnell. 11 republicans. do you know what that does, gives the democrats, two months, more time to figure it out. they can now have two more months to figure out how to screw us, okay? he's only a leader because he raises a lot of money and he gives it to senators. that's the only thing he's got. that's his only form of leadership. he should have challenged the ele election. >> reporter: as he always does, trump spent a lot of time repeating baseless claims about the last election. he did not talk about the biden's administration to share his papers with the select house committee investigating january 6th. christine and laura, back to you. >> joe johns, thank you for that. >>> time for three questions in three minutes. let's bring in cnn white house correspondent john harwood. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning. >> that was a big day at the iowa state fairgrounds. the hawkeyes won and donald trump won. he's the standard bearer for the party. what does this mean for the future of the gop? >> report

headed up by mitch mcconnell. can you believe that? mitch mcconnell. >> so you're hearing him slam not only mcconnell but the 11 republicans that voted to advance this bill that would suspend the debt ceiling until december. he's not the only republican leader to have criticized mcconnell. some conservatives in the senate also criticized mcconnell for blinking that includes lindsey graham, rand paul, ted cruz. they were really disappointed that mcconnell decided after weeks of saying he wasn't going to help democrat with the debt ceiling, that he would help and blinked and reached an agreement with schumer. the bottom line, lots of party infighting in the republican party this weekend. boris and laura? >> never a boring day. thank you, daniella. >>> shifting now to the covid pandemic. younger children may soon be eligible for the covid-19 vaccine. on thursday, pfizer officially applied for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in kids ages 5 to 11. a new study published friday in the journal "jama pediatrics" found kids are almos

it got 69 votes, including with mitch mcconnell's support. biden and the democrats might want to take a victory lap on that and reset this narrative, showing how democrats really have been able to govern this year. >> okay, so, let's bring a couple things down here first. amanda, smart politics or not, for schumer to kind of destroy the republicans the way that he did? >> i think it's important for him to have laid out that this is a 60-day -- that this is not an answer to everything, because that's actually the truth and he's going to have to deal with this in 60 days from now. and so, if this was a major victory, as though the debt ceiling was taken care of, then it wouldn't actually be laying the groundwork for the next negotiation that 60 days from now, which is to say, how do we get on the same page to actually come to an answer in order to move the debt ceiling, in order to move the country forward? and that part was important to do as, of course, he continues to build the relationship. it didn't do much for building the relationship, b

in my opinion, mitch mcconnell lost the news cycle. okay, so we have a narrative that mitch mcconnell blinked, right, and that schumer won. but in early december, it's going to be an even bigger showdown. it's not just going to be the debt limit that they have to fight to increase, the democrats will have to fight to increase. but also there would be government spending. an actual shutdown could be on the line. it's going to mean an even bigger fight which mitch mcconnell just pushed off. it will give him another opportunity to have another staredown match with schumer. everything that mitch mcconnell is doing right now is about politics, hands down. this is about lining up votes, going after moderates, making attack ads, and showing that democrats are spending too much. he didn't get that last night. but he might get that in december. >> tara, quickly, on this last point, i can't let you go without talking about something related to the story we talked about, january 6. you write in this morning's playbook, spotted, caddie turned seni

it's up to mitch mcconnell. as part of the broader speech, he was putting all of this on republicans, saying it is up to them to participate in the process, or at least not stand in the way, so they can vote to raise or suspend the debt limit. this is incredibly notable, where the president was discussing about this. because one path they have discussed pursuing, and the thing that mitch mcconnell said and he said in a letter to president biden, which he said he got a few moments before he came out here today, and will be talking to mcconnell, saying that democrats need to use reconciliation process to raise the debt limit. that, of course, is the process they are going to be using. it is democrats only to try to get that bigger package we have been talking about. that bigger package on the social policy and climate change bill to get that passed with just democratic support. mitch mb cocconnell and republi said they need to use that also to raise the debt limit. the president didn't rule it out but said it'd be

>> on the senate for -- senate floor, mitch mcconnell called out raising the debt ceiling. a quotation. quote, because this

. >> like many of you, i started today listening to senator mitch mcconnell speech on the floor rated and it bears are reoccurring themes that we had to think about at this moment, the one is that always there the fear of inflation, sure it's a legitimate concern but mitch mcconnell is particularly focus on inflation but what causes inflation. one of the things would certainly be if the interest rates go up. what would cause interest rates go up, the uncertainty about america's economic future and whether the full credit of the united states can be trusted. so by his very strategy of jeopardizing extending the debt ceiling, mitch mcconnell is a feeling the fires of inflation into the american economy we don't know what we consider political options it doesn't make critical decisions would downgrade the united states and already be in and if we finally come to her senses and senator mcconnell allowed ten republicans to join us of our civil majority vote, so may not be enough to really stop the impact that have already described in the second think and always has this that we want to he

make no mistake, this is not mitch mcconnell fully caving. in fact, i think it's also an attempt to take a little bit out of the wind of the sails of one of the key arguments that president biden has been making about why he doesn't want the senate democrats to do this through reconciliation. i asked the president about that yesterday, and one of the things he kept coming back to is the fact that the reconciliation process is fraught with uncertainty. he said it's an incredibly complicated and cumbersome process, time consuming, this idea of potentially unlimited votes on unrelated amendments that would happen during one of those budget sessions. mitch mcconnell in saying, look, we'll do a short-term debt ceiling extension until december, to give you the time to go through the potentially cumbersome process, and also allow the process to be expedited by perhaps limiting the number of votes, that cuts at one of the core arguments we have been hearing from president biden, but nonetheless, one of the key things that we heard from the president

mitch mcconnell knows how to count votes, too. one would think he knew who those ten votes were before making this offer. >> reporter: republicans i talked to just moments ago are undecided. they don't know what they want to do. they want to see if other republicans will cast this politically toxic vote themselves before they commit. ultimately the belief is when they get to the floor and they actually have the vote, the republicans will vote yes. but it's uncertain as to who will do that. every republican, every senator on both sides, they know they have to raise the debt ceiling but very few of them actually want to cast the vote to do that, which is why we are in the situation we're in, where we're running up to this deadline to raise the debt ceiling, a potential default. everyone knows it's going to happen but how it's going to happen still a question at this point. >> manu raju for us on capitol hill, thanks so much. >>> let's go to the live pictures of president biden just outside chicago. in a few minutes he's expected to

that's up to mitch mcconnell. >> so it's possible the u.s. will not pay it yet? -- it's debt? >> i don't believe that will be the end result because the consequence is so dire. but can i get. ? if i could, i would, but i can't. thank you very much. >> the high commitment as it relates to covid. where you stand on that -- to be hyde amendment -- the hyde amendment as it relates to covid, where you stand on that sir? >> on the senate floor, minority leader mitch mcconnell spoke about raising the debt ceiling. he called on senate majority leader chuck schumer to have the debt ceiling raised by a simple majority through the reconciliation process. cconnell: i want to begin today with a quotation. quote, because this massive accumulation of debt was predicted because it was foreseeable, because it was unnecessary, because it was the result of willful and reckless disregard for the warnings that were given and for the fundamentals of economic management, i'm voting against the debt limit increase. now, madam president, at

you don't normally see mitch mcconnell move off the dime. when he declares a position, he sticks with it. there are two things behind this move. one, the donor community, the business community that has strong relationships with mitch mcconnell and many of his republican members in his conference were applying pressure that this was -- this appeared to be careening out of hand and there was real danger to the economy. clearly those conversations were taking place and had some impact. but then as our colleague manu raju was reporting, the other piece of this is that whole debate over the filibuster that we have been seeing all year long that mcconnell was actually getting worried that manchin and sinema, the two democratic opponents to filibuster reform, might get a little weak kneed on this one issue and start chipping away at the filibuster which is a tool mitch mcconnell uses time and time again and had no desire to see any damage done to. i think his concern that the democrats were going to use this as an opportunity since biden and schum

cornell, was it too hot for mitch mcconnell, could he not handle the fire? >> well, mitch is the king of the smoke, but i will give you -- i will say this, i think there's a different variable in here. i think when the president and dems start talking about getting rid of the filibuster, because they're going a step too far, i think the calculation starts to turn it and mitch and republicans had to blink on this, but i also say this, i think the more extreme mitch mcconnell and the republicans in both the house and the senate behave, the more likely they are that filibuster is going to go away, and i think a lot of people want the filibuster to go away. i think we saw some good news in that when quite frankly now joe biden is at least talking about it and considering it. i tell you this, if joe biden says the filibuster needs to go away, i think it's going to be hard for the senate republicans, even manchin to hold out when republicans are doing these sort of extreme acts of foolishness. >> cornell, you're talking about the heat, and then the mechanism to ap

mitch mcconnell offered a deal to democrats. mcconnell told democrats for days they should lift the debt ceiling on their own. some gop members are mad at mcconnell. >> i don't understand why we're folding here at the end. this is the complete capitulation. i'm upset with us. we had a strategy to make them pay the price to raise the debt ceiling. we blinked. >> this means at least ten gop senators must vote yes to break the filibuster. they're not pleased with that. >> look, mcconnell blinked. so i think senator mcconnell took a hard look at the risks this was posing at the filibuster and decided to let us move forward. >> there was chatter that democrats wanted a special carve out on the filibuster exclusively nor the debt ceiling. democrats would need all of their members on board. democrats lack the votes for that gambet. >> how close were democrats yesterday to doing a filibuster carveout? >> that wasn't going to happen. i don't know what the desires were. some peopling thinking it was going to happen. >> democrats were read

headed up by mitch mcconnell. can you believe. >> mitch mcconnell? >> not only are republicans having some infighting about what happened with the debt ceiling but democrats are squabbling because they cannot reach an agreement for a price tag for this economic bill that they're debating. bottom line here is, lots of squabbles and tension here on capitol hill. boris and laura? >> there's always plenty of tension on capitol hill. >> thank you for staying on top of it for us. >>> president biden faces the challenge of trying to unite his party around his sweeping economic agenda but his poll numbers are sagging. can the president turn things around and get his agenda through congress and help democrats in the midterm election. jasmine wright joins us live from wilmington, delaware. former governor terry mcauliffe running again in virginia and seems to be distancing himself a bit from president biden. listen to this. >> we are facing a lot of headwinds from washington, as you know. the president is unpopular today, unfortunately here in virginia, so we

i wouldn't count on mitch mcconnell blinking, that's not mitch mcconnell's style. i think right now you couldn't get ten votes in the republican conference to go and do this, you know, to break a filibuster. there's just not ten republicans who would vote that way. they're looking at the democrats, this multitrillion dollar tax and spending bill, which is basically the big part of it is an attack on the 2017 republican tax cut, and they're saying they're not going to vote for it. now, the democrats made a decision a couple of months ago, they didn't want to do this through reconciliation, for the reason leigh ann said, they don't want to vote on a number. so they were aware of this issue in july, back, you know, a while ago. both sides have kind of moved toward this showdown. now, democrats are pretty certain that mcconnell will blink at some point, they seem very certain about it. but i'm not sure if that's a misread of mcconnell, where he is and where his republican conference is. >> let's talk about infrastructure and social spending. eugene, it felt like presid

that's up to mitch mcconnell. >> on the debt ceiling, mitch mcconnell, we're told, leigh ann caldwell was just saying, democrats fear republicans feel no shame. i would just say if i were chuck schumer -- and i'm not, but if i were in this position where a party was taking such a hypocritical stance and had always preached the importance of passing a debt limit, but now not only will they not vote to increase the debt limit, they won't even vote on a rule that would allow you to pass the debt limit. they want to wreck the economy. they want to put it all on democrats in a reconciliation bill. i would just say if they can't feel the shame, then make them feel the pain. i said it before, i'll say it again, until mitch mcconnell understands that the democrats are going to take this foot every day and they're going to have 50 votes every day to pass the debt ceiling to raise the debt ceiling, and they're going to keep doing that while the markets crash and they're going to keep voting and have the republicans obstructing this while the economy crashes, no, no, no. here's the thing. mitch

the, amy coney barrett appeared at mitch mcconnell with mcconnell in louisville. neil gorsuch, after he was confirmed, appeared with mcconnell in louisville. brett kavanagh appeared with him. who do you think they owe their seats to? they can argue that politics is not part of the court, but you know, those of us who follow the court and ordinary citizens can see what's in front of their eyes and politics is now and always has been an integral part of the supreme court. >> right. if you don't want politics to be part of the court, don't engage in politics while sitting on the supreme court. and this public -- >> and if i could just add, you know, there is something called traditional philosophy. amy coney barrett and her speech said, oh, judicial philosophy is totally different from politics. no it's not. judicial philosophy is politics in judicial interpretation. i don't criticize the justices for that. you know, ruth bader ginsburg and antonin scalia had different approaches to the law. that doesn't make one right and one wrong, but politics was intricately boun

mitch mcconnell could not guarantee him the republican nomination, and the reason is that mitch mcconnell cannot control donald trump. now, the republican governor of west virginia who is basically jim justice, president of the donald trump fan club in that state, he doesn't care what mitch mcconnell thinks. he cares what donald trump thinks. the republican voters in west virginia care about donald trump, they don't care about mitch mcconnell. joe manchin will stay a democrat because, quite simply, he has nowhere to go. why is he threatening to do this? it's very clear. it's negotiating room for him. he is being threatened by democratic donors who are unhappy with how he's torpedoing biden's -- not only his agenda, but climate change agenda. he's saying, look, i can pull up stakes and turn senate republican right now. that's why he's threatened. it's like james bond in "casino royale," except joe manchin isn't james bond. >> i didn't know the cia gave out gambling money. a lot of plot twists in that one. >> it was actually british intelligence, not the cia. although i do remember felix gi