i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. did kevin mccarthy calm a swirling debt deal drama? the speaker saying the agreement to pull the united states back from a crippling default is on track to pass. i don t want to be on the the wrong side of history. every single one of those members who vote no will miss the opportunity to vote for the largest cut in american history. plus ron desantis shows two sides to himself in iowa with the voters, the florida governor keeps donald trump s name out of his speech with reporters, though, he says it s time to give the former president the gold watch. move opt to the next generation. and today, new special counsel threats. jack smith now reportedly looking into the firing of the cybersecurity chief who called the 2020 election secure and why a mar-a-lago employee wanted to know the ins and outs of how the compound s security cameras work. up first for us, kevin mccarthy climbs out of the quick sand. ther
this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program, what is happening inside putin s russia? is he losing his grip on power? is he at odds with his own commanders? and how might his forces fair against the up coming counter offensive. we ll get inside from julia yoif and andrei soldatov. and since china opened up its economy in 1978, it has averaged almost 10% growth a year. but are we now at peak china? the economy ims keyu jin weighs in. also, has humanity gotten, well, dumber, thanks to the supercomputers in our pockets that could tell us everything that we need to know in an instant. i ll talk to the author simon winchester about the past, present and future of knowledge. but first, here is my take. america s debt ceiling crisis once again provoked the usual commentary about how it shows the country s basically dysfunctional. but the truth is t
president biden and u.s. house speaker mccarthy reach a tentative deal to raise the debt cree but will they be able to sell it to skeptical lawmakers on both sides of the aisle? and polls open in turkey. we re live in istanbul as voters began casting their ballots in the country s historic presidential runoff. plus, fueling speculation. ukraine s top commander releases a video that has many wondering if the country s counter offensive could be imminent. we begin in the u.s. with a late night agreement to try to prevent a disastrous debt default. the white house and republicans say they ve agreed in principle to raise the u.s. debt ceiling and cap government spending. u.s. house speaker kevin mccarthy is hailing the deal as a breakthrough that was reached after a flurry of crisis talks. 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 in principle that s worthy of the american peop
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, a very late saturday night on memorial day weekend but we re here for good reason. we re here in a crucial moment on debt ceiling talks. multiple sources tell cnn that the white house and house republican leaders have reach an agreement in principle, we should note in principle on raising the nation s debt ceiling. just ten minutes from now house speaker kevin mccarthy will address reporters we re told, and then at the bottom of the hour republican leaders will brief their fellow colleagues in the gop conference on the outlines of this deal. the briefing comes after a phone call earlier this evening between mccarthy and president biden, and cnn s priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. priscilla and manu raju still with us up on capitol hill. late night, guys. priscilla, what can you tell us? reporter: jim, i m hearing from a source close to negotiations yes ho
tomorrow thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day. the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to former president trump in the 2024 republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantis s political career so far. the biggest state, certainly, since he first stepped out into the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. everyone knows my husband ron desantis is endorsed by president trump. but he is also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build the wall. he read stories. that mr. trump said, you are fired. i love that part. he s teaching madison to talk. make america great again. people say ron is all about trump, but he is so much more. fake lead. so good. that ad was from way back in 2018 when desantis was positioning himself as a trump understudy. someone who knew all the lyrics, who had studied all