good morning, everyone. it is friday! friday! i m so happy to have my long time erica hill with me today. and next week. thank you for getting up super early. great to be with you. a lot going on this friday. let s get started with five things to know for friday, may 26th. the house negotiators are moving closer to avoid a default. it would lift the debt ceiling and cap spending for two years. memorial day weekend kicking off to be a very busy travel summer. aaa expects air travel to be higher than pre-covid levels. airlines face staffing shortages and air traffic control problems. two workers in mar-a-lago moved boxes of papers one day before the fbi visited the former president s home to pick up classified documents last year. the post also reporting that he had classified documents in his office at times and showed them to others. also in texas, lawmakers recommending articles of impeachment against the state s attorney general. they re accusing ken paxon o
ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. it is going down with elon musk on twitter. todd: what does this all mean? the republican primary bench keeps getting deeper and deeper. the governor is the latest candidate to turn his hat in the ring, on the heels of south carolina s tim scott. ashley: lucas tomlinson has more. lucas: president biden approval ratings continue to suffer, the highly anticipated official announcement from florida governor ron desantis coming tonight on twitter. here is elon musk with a preview. i ll be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and for the first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. lucas: florida s first lady showing a reminiscent of the movie the greatest showman. you can see brighter future, our best days lay ahead of us. is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been
welcome to our viewers in the you united states and around the world. there are signs of movement in the negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. two sources tell cnn that white house and republican negotiators are moving closer to a deal. we ve been talking to the white house all day. we re going back and forth. it is not easy. we want to make sure this is an agreement worthy of the american people and it takes a while to make it happen. jasmine wright is live for us this friday morning in washington. so do we know what the outstanding issues are the democrats and republicans are still far apart on? sounds like they are talking about a two year deal here with spending caps and raising the debt creeling for two years. is that the parameter? reporter: i think those are kind of where negotiations are heading. but in terms of how far apart they are, i think it depends on who you ask. but reality is that there is no deal in principle yet. there are a series of outstanding is
hello, everyone. thanks for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour in washington where right now negotiators are back at the table as they race to end the debt ceiling standoff. republican leaders and white house officials are returning a short time ago, after a marathon session lasted well into the night, the clock is ticking, to get a deal in place, before the u.s. defaults on its loans. the national deficit continues to soar. with no rise to the borrowing limit, the u.s. will default on its loans which could be catastrophic to the economy. the treasury secretary now is saying the deadline for an agreement is just eight days away. but talks are teetering on the brink, with at least one top republican negotiator warning that a deal could come together as soon as today, or fall apart entirely. cnn is following the latest. good morning. you re on capitol hill, and you spoke to the house speaker kevin mccarthy. what did he say? is he optimistic?
solidarity with other industries. while this incident came about spontaneously, they did find that organizers from amazon and starbucks unions showed up to help them and vice versa. sneets. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka witfield. president biden will be meeting with president zelenskyy at the g7 summit in japan. ukraine already scored a key victory after the u.s. has signalled it will now permit allies to send f-16 fighter jets to the war-torn nation. other g7 leaders issued a statement of support, saying, quote, we reaffirm our unwavering support for ukraine for as long as it takes. high on the agenda, western leaders are also weighing in on how to confront china s increasing military power. phil mattingly is in hiroshima, japan. what can we expect from this highly anticipated meeting between biden and zelenskyy? reporter: you know, the symbolism is obvious. we ve seen it not just here in hiroshima, but also over the course of the last ten days with pr