officially opens in 24 hours in iowa, where it s cold outside, but the race for the republican presidential nomination is catching fire. right now, the leading gop contenders are making their final pitches to voters, ahead of tomorrow s caucuses in the state. and despite facing a mounting of legal issues, donald trump appears to be the overwhelming favorites, pulling nearly 30 points ahead of his closest rivals, nikki haley and ron desantis. according to the latest nbc news des moines iowa, des moines register iowa poll, out of iowa, in just a few minutes, i ll talk to the chair of the democratic national committee about that. and, about iowa, and about the caucuses colliding with martin luther king holiday tomorrow. and about what his party needs to do, to not just unify against the eventual republican nominee, but to bring disaffected democrats, black voters specifically, back into the fold, ahead of november. let s check on the latest from iowa, however, with nbc s priscil
about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
there s a game seven back in boston! good morning, everyone. i mean, the ultimate buzzer-beater there, when they didn t know for a moment, did they get it in, did they not. is it going to count? oh, it counted. and tonight the boston celtics will try to make the greatest comeback in nba playoff history if they beat the miami heat tonight, the celtics would be the first-ever team to win game seven after losing the first three games of the series. also this morning, we are about to get an update from officials in davenport, iowa, where a search and rescue operation is underway after a six-story apartment building partially collapsed. plus, president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy reaching a deal on the debt limit. now, though, they have to persuade lawmakers to pass it. we ll speak with the white house moments from now. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin in davenport, iowa, this hour, where as rahel mentioned, any minute now, we are expecting to
7:00 in the morning, they re our teams will continue working. now we have had a past few days here at hiroshima, i think we ve had very important, productive meetings of the g7 summit. we also held a quad meeting here in hiroshima rather than australia, and important bilateral discussions, with primary issues prime minister of japan, prime minister of australia, and president zelenskyy in ukraine as well as the prime minister of india. this is my third trip to the north pacific as president, and i look forward to rescheduling my stops in popular guinea, and australia later. i spoken with the prime minister and probably in the guinea, and secretary blinken s traveler to meet with the pacific island partners in that moment. also i will be hosting, and i ve spoken with the prime minister, hosting the leaders of the pacific island forum in washington this fall, because i will be unable to make it to pop what new guinea. and with prime minister albanese, we ll have a state visit l
reporters at length. we re going to tell you what he said, and what it means for this evening because mccarthy and president biden are meeting again at 5:30, face to face at the white house. keep an eye on what each side says coming out of that meeting, the third one in as many weeks. if they can t start coming together now, when will they? because although we say eight working days, that doesn t mean a deal and a bill and a vote will happen overnight. marking it up, debating it, signing off on it all take time even when congress is trying to go quickly, and according to treasury secretary, janet yellen, there isn t exactly wiggle room. june 1st is a hard deadline, she told meet the press over the weekend, even invoking the 14th amendment would take time, which by the way, yellen says would be potentially inappropriate and legally uncertain. so what would be left, aside from defaulting? again, watch what comes out of this meeting. house democrats have 210 vote for their dis