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Everyone agreed that default would be the worst outcome, a horrible situation for America and America's families.

But we also agreed that we need to pass a bipartisan bill with bipartisan support in both chambers.

I asked Speaker McCarthy does he agree with that? And he said yes. And his bill of course is not a bipartisan bill.

The United States comes closer to defaulting on its debt for the first time ever, as Republicans continue to push for sweeping budget cuts.

Some Democrats like AOC have vowed to push back on nearly any significant concession.

We'll speak with the American Prospect Editor Robert Cutner about what he's calling the budget force a travesty in two acts.

Then the U.S. should be a force for peace in the world. That's the headline of a full-page New York Times ad signed by 15 former high-ranking national security officials calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

We thought it was important that we signal to the President and the members of Congress that the time is now to stop this war and bring it to a peaceful end.

We'll speak with Dennis Fritz, retired command chief master sergeant of the U.S. Air Force.

Then 38 years ago Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the house of the Black Radical Group move known as Move.

I've just been advised that we have new videotape of the episode that apparently ended. We think ended the move situation tonight.

The dropping of an incendiary device. Let's take a careful look at this 527 p.m. State Police helicopter drops it. There is the explosion.

As you can see, a very dramatic explosion that occurs 30 seconds and really rips into the move compound.

We'll speak with Mike Africa Jr., who played in the move house as a child before it was bombed.

About how the city sees the house using eminent domain and turned it into a police substation before selling it to developers and why he's trying to buy it back.

All that and more coming up.

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