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facing the president is sahil kapur, reuters white house correspondent jeff mason, and former republican national chairman michael steele. jeff mason, we'll start with you. let's listen to bit more from the president's comments moments ago on the debt limit. take a listen to this. >> let's be clear, not only are republicans refusing to do their job, they're threatening to use the power, their power to prevent us from doing our job, saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think quite frankly, it's hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful. their obstruction and irresponsibility knows absolutely no bounds. >> so jeff, give us the state of play here because president biden is trying to put republicans in a bind, but mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader doesn't seem interested at all on budging on this deaf -- debt ceiling issue. >> agreed. i think what we've seen today, particularly what we've heard from the president is an increasing, an upping of the rhetoric from the white house. very deliberately placing blame on the republicans if the u.s. were to default and using strong language like disgraceful.

michael found troy. he's also the director of the rice politics and policy center at george mason university. he joins us live from washington day say hello there, michael. thanks for joining us. let's break this down. explain to us this sticking points here and the significance of the build back a better act in getting this bill through well, i want to be jim boss with something you said in the run up to this or not is the family how margins and bought the house and make it very difficult for any big controversial client to get from congress. and so with the bill back better act, there was an opportunity or an interpreter to create a fundamental fundamentally radical change in the white domestic social programs are funded in the united states. that's very controversial, is taking a lot more time and maybe a thought to work through some of those details. a number of priorities that were expected to be included probably won't. and quite frankly, probably were never going to be because there were some members of the center that were just not going to support it. and so now we're at a point where