round-the-clock negotiations are on in washington as america faces the very real chance of a potentially catastrophic debt default. house speaker kevin mccarthy saying today he sees progress, but there are still major sticking points that need to be ironed out on everything from spending caps to work requirements. one top republican negotiator warning a deal could be reached as soon as today or they could collapse completely. meanwhile, the national deficit is growing every second, and with no deal in place the u.s. could run out of money to pay its bills, which could have a disastrous impact on the economy. the treasury secretary now saying that could happen in just eight days. cnn s covering all of the angles. what are the obstacles reaching lawmakers from reaching a deal? negotiators were in the capitol until 2:30 a.m. this morning and now they re back in house speaker kevin mccarthy s office meeting virtually with the white house as they continue to try and hash out the
investigators who investigated the ties between the trump campaign and russia and beyond. as new york times reports today, durham delivered a report that scolds the fbi but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of donald j. trump that he would uncover a politically motivated deep state conspiracy. he charged no high-level fbi or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. to no one s surprise though, the disgraced ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors and what amounts effectively to a campaign of disinformation. once again from the new york times, predictably the reporter s actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the fbi of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias, made scant difference in parts of the political arena. mr. trump and many of his loyalists iss
deciding their vote. with numbers like that in mind, republican lawmakers are ramping up their attacks on biden s handling of the economy. has no idea how to deal with inflation, has no plan to deal with inflation. all he does is blame everybody else, including putin, for his inflation. even some democratic lawmakers are now urging the biden administration to do more. i support everything the president is doing, but i don t think it s enough. my constituents don t think it s enough. white house aides pushing back on accusations that the president isn t doing everything he can to lower prices. president biden gets up every day and goes to bed every night thinking about what can we do to get a lid on inflation. now, jake, today officials here at the white house are also noting that this is not just a united states problem. it s a global challenge when it comes to higher prices, higher gas prices. of course, they said they don t have anything to announce when it come