substance. the key point of contention is spending levels. republicans want to cut spending. the white house is offering to freeze spending. as these negotiations have dragged on, we have seen both the left and right flanks starting to pressure biden and mccarthy respectively. you have skconservatives who ar saying the june 1st deadline isn t even real. they re warning mccarthy against cutting a deal that relies on democratic votes. a so you start to get a sense of the real challenges that biden and mccarthy are facing as they try to hammer out this deal that has the support of enough members in both parties. mel, thank you for that report. i want to get to phil mattingly who is covering the white house perspective on all of this. phil, we ve been talking to economic experts who say, yeah, you may be looking at that june 1st, quote, unquote, deadline, but these next 24 to 48 hours are crucial for how much time
well because justice doesn t fall out of the sky. sometimes you ve got to earn it. you ve got to do everything. i get it. one thing you ve said is that you re working with the state of idaho now to try to make sure murders like this don t happen again. can you tell us what kind of changes, what kind of steps you would like to see? you know what, we ve wrote letters and we ve gotten people involved that can actually make things happen. i can just voice what the public you know, what people are sharing with me. we are getting a lot of people reaching out to us. and just extend that information on to people, because right now i do have people who will listen. but my voice really isn t different than anyone else who s a member of the idaho community. but we are trying to work with you know, with people to make sure that we can make something better and make the
in the remaining time. this is extremely questionable and that is why they are considering extending this mission. however, this will only be the case if security assurances are given. our correspondent nomia iqbaljoined me with the latest from washington. some think that mr biden s advisers are arguing against extending that deadline. they are worried about the security, of course, as we have been hearing, the taliban has basically threatened, made a threat saying that it is a red line for them, there will be consequences if the august the 31st deadline isn t met and all the troops are out. what those consequences will be, we don t know, but it s not a risk that i imagine president biden can take. but we are expecting him to make an announcement on what his decision will be after this g7 virtual meeting he will be holding with many countries, including the uk, germany