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Lawrence O'Donnell, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Lucas Kunce & Sam Brodey

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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The Republican Party Shouldn't Have a Default

I think Trump honestly complicated things for himself because if a default does happen, he'll have been seen as cheering on. The default that helping me get happen. There are some Republicans who genuinely believe that a default would be better than not cutting spending dramatically. Even if you get McCarthy to agree, there's no evidence that McCarthy really has power over this caucus. And he's going to take a deal of them and they're going to hate it.

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