hello, everyone. thanks for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour in washington where right now negotiators are back at the table as they race to end the debt ceiling standoff. republican leaders and white house officials are returning a short time ago, after a marathon session lasted well into the night, the clock is ticking, to get a deal in place, before the u.s. defaults on its loans. the national deficit continues to soar. with no rise to the borrowing limit, the u.s. will default on its loans which could be catastrophic to the economy. the treasury secretary now is saying the deadline for an agreement is just eight days away. but talks are teetering on the brink, with at least one top republican negotiator warning that a deal could come together as soon as today, or fall apart entirely. cnn is following the latest. good morning. you re on capitol hill, and you spoke to the house speaker kevin mccarthy. what did he say? is he optimistic?
conclusion. it s going to be remarkable. have a great memorial day weekend. that does it for us this morning. yasmin vossoughian picks up the coverage right now. hey, everybody, it s 10:00 a.m. in the east, i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera this morning. urgency in washington with less than a week to avoid a catastrophic default. there s optimism that a deal is close, but can they get it done and before too much damage is done? we have a lot of hangups. do you think it s possible to get a deal by this weekend. look, we re not going to stop negotiating. this is a priority. plus, we ve got more questions about donald trump and classified documents at mar-a-lago. new exclusive reporting from the washington post, sources saying that two employees moved the boxes the day before a visit by fbi agents. what could that mean for the special counsel s investigation? growing outrage in mississippi, an attorney for an 11-year-old says the child was shot after he
rick reichmuth on if the weather will be holding up. americans get to take to the road and the skies, but not without some trouble along the way. to los angeles, we ll find christina coleman at l.a.x. christina? hi, neil. fortunately there s been no reports of any massive flight cancellations on delays today. good news, because it was a much different story during the winter break. air travel days ahead leading in to easter weekend matched prepandemic levels with many people taking to the skies or hitting the roads during spring break. the f.a.a. forecast more than 51,000 flights for today. those numbers are expected to drop slightly tomorrow. then increase by a little more than 6,000 between saturday and tuesday. many passengers told me that they felt confident that they would get to their destinations on time. were you worried about delays? no. i had no problems whatsoever. i was worried about it but didn t happen. we had built in time to prepare for that. just ca
following the story. the protest happened one week ago and three democratic state representatives got in the well and held things up for about 50 minutes and used a bull horn, led chants from the crowd. that really enraged and angered a lot of republican members. they have a super majority. one week later they have voted to expel one of the three. voting pretty much on party lines about 72-25. they have the two-thirds majority. it s likely they re going to do the same thing to the other two. many voices in the house argued for moderation saying expulsion for a rules violation was too extreme. they call it had a nuclear option. but basically the argument was made by the speaker it was a mutiny and dishonor and it was an insurrection and one democrat is out and it s likely two more will be out by the end of the night. angry crowd around that state house and really lawmaker haves needed help from state troopers to get in and out of the building today and tensions continue to r