WATCH: Joe Conason Discusses the Debt Limit Deadline on MSNBC’s <i>Jansing & Co.</i>

The National Memo’s Editor-in-Chief Joe Conason spoke with Jansing & Co. guest host Richard Lui and The Atlantic’s Molly Ball about the negotiations—stalled by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and the Tea Party caucus—to reopen the government and increase the debt limit before the Thursday deadline.

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