a critical day for the u.s. economy and maybe for house speaker kevin mccarthy s career. what could be the decisive vote on the controversial deal to raise the debt ceiling is just hours away. florida governor ron desantis taking on donald trump directly for really the first time since becoming a presidential candidate. hitting the campaign trail in iowa and vowing to fight back against the former president. also happening dailtoday, historic meeting on ufos, nasa set to unveil what a nine month long investigation uncovered. this is c cnn news central. so this really is the day that could make or break the deal to avoid a catastrophic u.s. default. it is also the day that could make or break the speakership of kevin mccarthy. the house will vote on the debt ceiling. the rules committee did narrowly vote in favor of advancing the bill to the house floor, but there was severe pushback from some conservatives. the bill now needs a simple majority to pass or 218 if eve
supported finland joining the alliance in march. blinken hopes to have the whole matter solved by mid-july. so in just a few minutes a nasa task force will hold a meeting on ufos or as it calls them uaps, unidentified anomalous phenomena. a group of experts spent nine months studying data and will discuss their findings. tom foreman is joining us. are we alone? reporter: well, and i aren t. i don t know about other people. a lot of people don t have a lot of friends. but this space thing, you know, what are they going to say. they will say we found things that we can t explain and that we want to look into more. that is what my guess is. for a long time the government wouldn t say anything at all and then the military finally said yeah, there are things out there that we re not quite sure what it is, defense people looked at some of the images as well. things captured by pilots and started saying that maybe there is something strange about this.