. >> that's what he did in 2011, mitch mcconnell and john weiner was there with the new house, they were intent on cutting the deficit they wanted to pass balance budget amendment before raising the debt limit cut cap and balance bill, it was much more m ambitious than what kevin mccarthy is talking about, a modest deal on spending. i think mcconnellh is sort of in the wing and if the house is unable to get back together and unable to pass anything, there is a chance that mcconnell the end could pick up the phone to joe biden and try to craft a deal they think may be enough folks in the house or except. >> you and others at bloomberg has a story about the options the government may consider when taking care of these issues, what's the genesis of the story, what are you writing? >> a lot of folks have been talking about ways to bypass the house of representatives. it's very inconvenient to have a house of representatives that disagree with you that you need to raise the debt limit and there are various ways of people talking you can raise cash to pay the bill. one of them pretty popular o

on the republican side, john weiner on the same side where they didn't have the power to really move when he talked to democrats, they displayed to nancy pelosi and see that she is going to work and also make sure the people see her a bit and open up to her a bit. she was there to wilt a lot of power. the big question is going to be, how much can you really steer his party and also how much are these lawmakers going to be able to accomplish if you have a situation where lawmakers can if they feel like it? >> as they take over the respected committees, will likely see multiple new investigations take over washington. what do you think it could look like? >> we have already seen a preview of what republicans are looking into. they created this committee on government as part of one of the concessions. kevin mccarthy had to make and i think it is going to overlap what you would traditionally see happen in the oversight committee and judiciary committee, but some will be possibly influenced by what media will talk about. they might want to launch an investigation, because hunter biden, s

and that was ted kennedy and john weiner co-author the legislation bush signed it was really a big part of what he wanted to accomplish. the president of course it fell far into the background. but we could never make them happy within education speech he simply knew too much of the granular level of detail it speechwriters could never get pretty go to the staffing process and every thing was fine then we get to the president said you don't get it you don't have it. [laughter] so one time it was in 2004 in the middle of the reelection complaint a lot is going on. i said to mike and matthew my colleagues, said the president did not like the last education speech we have another into do let's take the one he didn't use and look at the transcript of what he actually said and use that. and so we did we took that transcript of that last speech, we cleaned it up and put in some current local references and current facts and data to freshen it up. and i thought this is what he wanted to say and clearly it was the rare event he had a speech in front of him and did not use it. it was education h