that was senator ben cardin, democratic senator ben cardin. i want to the go to brianna keilar. have you new information on why this happened? >> well, don, i just think it's important to lend some contempt to really what this allows. we now throughout today a lot of the discussion following the votes on capitol hill about really the negotiations of a potential deal have been between the white house in the form of vice president joe biden and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who spent years together in the senate very familiar with each other and biden, of course, led those biden talks that went on for months and sketched out a framework between democrats and republicans. i think it's important to note just in how things could play out or really what this means with the delay in the vote. but delaying this vote in the senate from what would have been 1:00 a.m. sunday morning to 1:00 p.m. sunday by 12 hours, would allow time should there be some discussions, some movement toward some agreement between the white house and senate republicans, it would allow time for the bill

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the senate democrats like maryland's ben cardin say the republican cuts go too far. >> we're not going to privatize medicare and put our seniors at the risk of private insurance company. we're not going to make it that much more expensive for families to afford collegeec. >> reporter: economic analysts like mike taper of the cato institute say both sides have dug in their heals but the stakes are too high for them not to move forward. what you won't have is enough money to continue the general operations of the federal government. it will be like one of these giant government shutdowns that we always go through. >> reporter: both the president and the vice president have met with lawmakers before while both parties say more progress is being made. >> i promise i will keep you guys updated as the time goes on, all right? >> reporter: so far, an agreement has not been reached and the days on the calendar are slipping away. on capitol hill, tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >>> turning to the crisis in libya. the debate continues on the the hill over whether the u.s. should be able to proceed w

national urban league to not give talking points and did the same thing with democratic senator ben cardin ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented. it's just being respectful of you the viewer, the voter who deserves direct answers from the people who are fortunate enough to be given a platform on national television to speak directly to the american people. there's breaking news to tell you about the debt ceiling debate. harry reid id has called off tonight's expected vote on his debt ceiling proposal. the vote is now expected sunday afternoon at 1:00 eastern time. republican senate leader mitch mcconnell is negotiating with the white house and that's where we go now to brianna keilar standing by. what's the latest on these talks? >> it appears that a day of negotiations between the white house and congress specifically vice president joe biden and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, all of this sort of wrapping up for the evening. it appears people will finally be going to sleep here shortly. but it's interesting because earlier in the day, we heard republicans

democrats like maryland's ben cardin says the republican cuts go too far. >> we're not going to privatize medicare and put our seniors at risk of the private insurance companies. we're not going to make it that more expensive for families to afford college education. >> reporter: mike tanner of theicato institute say both sides have dug in their heels, but the stakes are too high not for them to move forward. >> what you won't have is enough money to continue the general operations. federal government. it'll be like one of these giant government shut-downs we always go through. >> reporter: both the president and vice president have met with lawmakers before, and while both parties say more progress is being made. >> i promise i will keep you guys updated as time goes on. all right. >> reporter: so far an agreement has not been reached and the days on the calendar are slipping away. on capitol hill, tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >> the president's twitter town hall tomorrow will feature questions from twitter users, but the website administrators will choose those questions. the white house

. >> senator ben cardin of maryland, thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >>> joining mess is former labor secretary robert reich he's the author of "aftershock." professor, good to see you this morning. >> good morning, thomas. >> senator cardin is given an insider's perspective. we have regular man on the street interviews about how they feel, but when we talk about the specifics, about the u.s. credit rating that could be downgraded, even if we raise the ceiling on time, some analysts are saying that a downgrade is inevitable. lawmakers have gotten this country into a real mess. in your estimation, from your background, is washington broken? it just can't seem to get its act together? >> undoubtedly washington is broken. the big problem, though, is that you have two sides who are still way, way far apart, and the clock is sticking. i mean, we have to have an agreement by tuesday, or interest rates not only for the federal government, but really for average people with regard to auto loans, variable rather mortgages, everything else, start going up. the possibility, thomas,

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. >> senator ben cardin, thank you for being here. have a nice weekend. >>> joining me now former rnc chairman michael steele. can we get into grover-gate, michael? >> have at it. >> i'm trying to read these tea leaves. i know you're the guy to take me to the answer. tuesday grove r said it wouldn' violet his anti-tax pledge. here is the audio from that video? >> not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. >> so it does not violet the pledge? >> we wouldn't hold it that way. it would be a very bad thing to do. it would raise taxes from where they are today. would it technically violate the pledge? no. >> seems straightforward, but then he backed away in the comments here on msnbc. today in "the new york times" he tried to clarify things further. he said he remains opposed to any tax increases but went on to write, my positions and the implications of the pledge regarding temporary tax cuts is clear. if there were no vote in congress and daxes rose automatically, no politicians would have voted for politics and no elect

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also one of the best senators in the country, ben carden is in the house -- ben cardin is in the house. [cheers and applause] we've got college park mayor andrew fellows is here. [cheers and applause] former congressman frank cradoville is here. [applause] you wouldn't know it looking at him, but frank is an outstanding basketball player. [laughter] the terps might be able to use him, even at this age. he is a point guard. got all kinds of moves. [laughter] and i want to thank your still-quasinew president here at maryland, wallace. [cheers and applause] so this is a town hall, i want to spend some time answering some of your questions, but just want to say a few things at the top. first of all, i have to say it's nice to get out of washington. [laughter] [applause] don't get me wrong, there's nothing i enjoy more than sitting hour after hour, day after day debating the fine points of the federal budget -- [laughter] with members of congress. um -- [laughter] but after a while you do start feeling a little cooped up. so i'm happy to be spending my morning with you. um, i'm going to spe

today in the senate floor, ben cardin of the senate budget committee tacked about the need to raise theon't take any action in the congress. talk a little bit about the debt ceiling. there has been a lot of debt thg ceiling as to what is the responsible thing for congress to do? or now, we all know what the lastis 50 years or so: the debt ceiling has been increased over 80 times. it is done after the fact.dy we've incurred liability and the question is whether repair bill. the decisions we make in regards to our fiscal policies need to be down at the time we considery the budget. and raising the debt ceiling is not only a legal responsibility that we have to pay our bills,lt as well as ao moral responsibility and speaks to what they were willing to speak to our observations. would the filter raise the debt ceiling to be a responsible. it would jeopardize our nationa. security because it would cost taxpayers more money and they would say to the world that the u.s. bonds, which are the safest in the world are called into question. so i think we all should agreee that we need to make sure