one, you ve seen all the speculation about is pete buttigieg in a better position than kamala harris, the vice president and president haven t talked about 2024. the president is trying to avoid that. the other thing that s true is at the start of the biden presidency, we were hearing from trump aides and supporters that whether biden ran again or not could be a decisive factor for trump because biden would be the hardest to beat. i think, you know, we ll know as we see what the economy does, what covid does. that may not be donald trump s central concern or factor anymore. watching those approval ratings i m sure. sabrina saddiqui, build back better already a challenge or pieces of build back better. but bide en in his interview yesterday on the issue of voting rights says he sip ports a
which includes everything from passing president bide en s entire domestic agenda to keeping the federal government s lights on. government funding runs out friday. and while there is some progress on punting the deadline to january, something will have to make its way to the president s desk by the end of the week or the government shuts down. december 15th is the debt ceiling deadline. there isn t a solution in place to avoid a default. chuck schumer and others want the build back better bill wrapped up by the end of the year because that s when a host of covid relief things expire including the child tax credit. leigh ann caldwell has more. reporter: it could be a december to remember. we ll see how this month plays out. but starting friday, this is the first big deadline. and perhaps maybe the most important, although, there s a
understood much less of it than i would like. thank you both. up next, president bide en s credibility tested on the world stage as he tries to convince world leaders the u.s. can lead on climate. even though congress hasn t yet signed off on the climate agenda back in washington. you re watching meet the pre daily . the press daily is the planning effect. this is how it feels to have a dedicated fidelity advisor looking at your full financial picture. this is what it s like to have a comprehensive wealth plan with tax-smart investing strategies designed to help you keep more of what you earn. and set aside more for things like healthcare, or whatever comes down the road. this is the planning effect from fidelity. traveling has always been our passion, even with his parkinson s. but then he started seeing things that weren t there and believing things that weren t true.
a good friday morning to you. craig melvin here getting ready for a busy hour. hollywood tragedy. officials say actor and producer alec baldwin fired a prop gun and killed one movie crew member and injured another. what authorities are learning this morning about how all of it went down. and any second now the white house covid-19 response people will be holding a briefing. the briefing comes at the start of a new chapter in our pandemic fight. we now have three booster vaccine options, and we also have new guidance to follow on those boosters. covid protocols are still a flash point in parts of the country. we re on the ground in texas where the governor and the dallas mavericks are facing off over covid requirements for fans. also this hour, president bide en s economic agenda is back in the spotlight. the president pulling back the
curtain, giving an inside look at the negotiations over his party s spending bill. you can sense the urgency with the president holding a breakfast meeting this morning with speaker pelosi and majority leader schumer. right now democrats seem to be all over the map about what should be in the bill? will we get a deal? what will the deal look like? in a few moments i ll talk to jim clyburn, the third ranking doctors in the house about where talks stand at this hour. and that is where we are going to start on this friday morning. some new details on the president s build back better plan. and it s all coming straight from president biden himself. i probably spent well, well over 100 hours. are you close to a deal? i think so. i was a senator for 307 years, and i was never i was relatively good at putting together bills. the clean electricity