That belies the fact of who Joe Biden is. Joe Biden is a guy who spent his whole life kind of coming up from nowhere to proving to people, you know, that he can -- that he's going to hack it.
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Axelrod reflects on Biden's character and his journey in politics.
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Trump sends out a tweet saying they ought to pass a clean CR with a debt ceiling -- raising the debt ceiling, because as Adam says, he doesn't want to be blamed for it.
The White House, the Senate, the Democratic Senate, the Republican house came to an agreement. That agreement was on the doorstep of being approved. And then Musk went on his tweet fest, and then Trump piled on and added the debt ceiling…
There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.
Well, the question is, what would prevent them from doing things similar to what they've done before? And I think that's the thing that the president and the Republican Party should worry about.





