earful. brian: yes. there is a lot of people her, vip s, generals, colonels, small business owners, all concerned about the country. one of the most patriotic places in the nation. they are big-time viewers, it will be special talking to them shortly, including an eagle scout. i will bring in one of the busiest guys in america, house speaker kevin mccarthy. mr. speaker, thanks for joining us. thanks for having me all the way down in florida. brian: right. i know how hard you worked on the deal, it will be a nail-biter it seems going down to the wire. how concerned are you about the bill you cobbeled together getting out of committee? speaker mccarthy: it s a different congress, new day, you have to pas a bill to find out what is in it. you have 72 hours, this is 99 pages. this is different than before. we will spend less money this year than last year. debt limit is like the family having a credit card you have been charging up every year and keep lifting the limit. t
conference at the capitol. i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then voting on it on wednesday. thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the american public. we do not have the full scope of the agreement, as the speaker, noted the bill is still being written as we speak, with the intention of completing it by later today. now, from what nbc news has gathered so far, the deal will to raise the debt limit until 2020, five it will keep it roughly flat while giving a slight boost of funding to defense, and if we are providing a new controversial work r
things were developing. that default was not an honest. and mccarthy even had said that it would be, quote, possible to get a deal by the end of the week, last week. this past week. signs of renewed discourse bill back out yesterday when republican aides paused the discussion saying that it was, quote, not productive. democrats and republicans remain far apart a number of issues including spending cuts and work requirements for federal mccarthy said is a red line for him. talks between congressional republicans and the white house have yet to resume. yesterday mccarthy made his disadvantage faction public, reading, 12. president biden doesn t think that there is a think oh-dollar saving to be found in the federal budget. he would rather be the first president in history to default on the debt rather than upsetting the radical socialist calling the shots for democrats right now. mccarthy s three conveniently of re-norms the fact that republicans nor democrats under a presi
next hour, change that. the lead starts right now. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy meeting in a matter of minutes. what s on and what s off the negotiating table as mccarthy insists he needs to see a deal this week to avoid default. plus a new name in the 2024 presidential race. i m running for president of the united states. i m america. tim scott setting his sights on the white house and his gop backers hope the senator from south carolina can be the one to beat trump and then biden. and a not guilty plea in the murders of four idaho college students and the gag order keeping information secret in this case. welcome to the lead 37 i m jake tapper. can they make a deal? in the next hour president biden and. kevin mccarthy will meet face to face at the white house as the united states careens towards an economic ka catastro that only those two can prevent we re ten day was from the u.s. potentially running out of money to pay its bills. that c
brownsville. nearly 2,000 they ve encountered. by comparison, david, if you remember back in april of 2021, that del rio bridge with some 20,000 haitians, it took 17 days for them to get to 20,000 haitians in del rio. here in brownsville, in the past 10 days exceeded 20,000 and they re largely venezuelans. you can see it the construction, they re calling it camp monument, the border parole agents are, setting up areas to process, encounter, screen and transfer out these migrants and it s just part of what they re trying to get ready for because it s less than two weeks before title 42 lifts. i wanted to take a look at one more piece of footage that we shot this morning and this is the migrants showing up here. like i side 90% venezuelan and cuba, colombia, honduras, el salvador as well. meanwhile, in el paso, take a look at pictures given to fox news by local ngo, they ve set up shelters with migrants all over the streets and we heard some 30,000 migrants are waiting in juare