the house is unable to get its act together and unable to pass anything, there is a chance that macconnell in the end could pick up the phone to joe biden and try to craft a deal that they think may enough folks in the house would fix it up. host: you and others at bloomberg had a story published about the options that the government may consider when taking care of these issues so what's the genesis of this story? guest: a lot of folks have been talking about ways to bypass the house of representatives. it's very inconvenient with a house of representative that disagrees that you don't want to raise the debt limit. people are saying you could raise cash to keep paying the bills, one of which has been popular is minting platinum coins and there's an old law from decades ago that gives the secretary of the treasury to mint platinum coins of any dim emanation to theoretically meant a trillion dollar coin. then the federal reserve can credit our account and we can keep paying the bill. her problems with that. you have to figure at how to not have that affected by inflation. it's not really a

the house is unable to get its act together and unable to pass anything, there is a chance that macconnell in the end could pick up the phone to joe biden and try to craft a deal that they think may enough folks in the house would fix it up. host: you and others at bloomberg had a story published about the options that the government may consider when taking care of these issues so what's the genesis of this story? guest: a lot of folks have been talking about ways to bypass the house of representatives. it's very inconvenient with a house of representative that disagrees that you don't want to raise the debt limit. people are saying you could raise cash to keep paying the bills, one of which has been popular is minting platinum coins and there's an old law from decades ago that gives the secretary of the treasury to mint platinum coins of any dim emanation to theoretically meant a trillion dollar coin. then the federal reserve can credit our account and we can keep paying the bill. her problems with that. you have to figure at how to not have that affected by inflation. it's not really a

this is the story from nbc news, macconnell puts the onus on mccarthy to negotiate a debt limit solutionplenty of other headlines to the same effect today. the same discussion on your message to washington on the debt limit and federal spending, you can join the conversation by calling in, 202-748-8,000, republicans 202-748-8,000 one, independents 202-748-8002. taking up a lot of space on capitol hill, the only story claiming more to talk about, one other story getting a lot of attention, mike pence discovers classified documents at his home. a handful of classified documents found at the former vice president's home in indiana, the fbi retrieved them according to a representative, mike pence in a letter to the national archives, pence's lawyer characterize the document as a small number of documents with classified markings that were transported to the personal home of the former vice president at the end of the last administration, found on january 16th, placed in a secure space until they could be returned to the proper authority, the front page story on usa today, the latest in a ser