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Speaker 1: But nobody has agreed to stop spending, and nobody has

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you think you heard. If you

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Speaker 1: the audio. Sunbite this this morning, this morning in Washington,

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Speaker 1: Airic Cantor, the majority leader for the Republicans in the House.

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Speaker 1: Sis speech is coming a full two months after the

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Speaker 1: He's been standing on the sidelines expecting the rest of

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Speaker 1: that's what he does. Sits around that other people do, it,

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Speaker 1: Chaeney movie. They were just how are they trying to

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Speaker 1: create the notion of a of an economic collapse? Uh? Unemployment.

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Speaker 1: Paul Ryan was on with George Stephanopolos Good Morning America Today.

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Speaker 1: Stephanopolis question, do you accept what Secretary Geitner says that

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Speaker 1: But we also want to make sure that as this

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Speaker 1: And I don't accept a notion that that's not possible.

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Speaker 1: priv going to default? We're not going to go into default,

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Speaker 1: if you're just joining us, the Republicans have decided that

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Speaker 1: the latest. Mike and Columbia, South Carolina Hiser, welcome to

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Speaker 1: If if the death ceiling increases so important to Obama

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Speaker 1: here's here's Ryan. Here, here's Ryan's budget. It's a Twofer

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Speaker 1: Ryan's budget. Okay, let me ask you a quick comment

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Speaker 1: not We're not gonna find him on the death ceiling.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna find it. We're gonna We're gonna focus

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Speaker 1: We can't afford the US default. The Republican leaders are

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