debt ceiling deal is reached. there are many moving parts. we have details on to phone calls happening as both sides iron out the details. congressman, richie torres, from new york, joins me for moments when we break down what we know. good day from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome to alex witt reports. i m in for alex today. we begin with breaking news. a lock happening on capitol hill this hour. white house officials and house republicans are preparing for a call any minute now. their calls between president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy. house republicans are than expected to release the full text of the debt ceiling agreement negotiated by both sides. at five p m today, democrats will get a briefing on the agreement from white house officials. here is some of what both sides say is in the deal. it raises the debt ceiling until 2025. it cuts 1.5 trillion and spending. it increases defense spending. as new work requirements for some government programs, and
get every noon everybody i m yasmin vossoughian. president biden arriving at the white house moments ago he has a busy afternoon ahead of him a call with house speaker kevin mccarthy scheduled on the debt deal and briefing calls with house and senate democrats it is coming as congressman on both of the highway for that actual bill coming from that tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling in avoided default. we did a conference call, our confidence was over 95%. we overwhelmingly clearly excited. did i get with what i want? no today get all of what they want? no. i am very pleased. we are at a good place. now comes the race against time for the president and house speaker mccarthy to sell it to enough for their party members to get it passed ahead of a june default. no two people have more on the line in all of this. president biden just returning to the white house. nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa is there for us. president biden stopped for a moment
we ll see. neil: it s pretty clear not everyone is on the same page. you re looking live on the house floor where they re voting on a rule to essentially bring this debt ceiling bill to the floor there. as chad pergram likes to remind us, you don t have a rule, you don t have a debate on the bill and you don t have a chance to raise the debt ceiling and cut the spending that has been the source of this nerve building that we ve been seeing. that is expected to pass and lead the way to likely a vote on the entire matter later tonight. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much at stake as we get things kicking off on your world. we ll have all the key players discussing this as well as what is happening in the house and the senate can john thune trying to step an effort on the part of some republicans to turn their backs on this as well. it s not really a brush fire, but he s keeping an eye on it. we ll talk to him about that as well as key caucus members who have key
them 72 hours to read it before a vote. the bill would cap spending and avoiding a default. the deal is drawing criticism from the left and right. the president and the speaker are framing it as a win/win. president biden: it takes a threat of cast as trophy to fall off the table and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. that s the responsibility of governing. you got work requirements that people out of poverty into jobs. you have reforms that we can build things, cut the red tape. we capped so the president can t just spend money wildly. we re spending less than we spent last year. that hasn t happened in congress. julie: grover norquist is here with reaction. first to mark meredith in washington. good morning. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy reached a deal to raise the nation s death limit. now is the hard part. the convince party members to put it forward. they call on the house and senate. it wo
make sense of this with our viewers. thanks mehdi. here we go. tonight, on a two hour edition of the mehdi hassan show, breaking details of the debt limit deal. we will hear from democratic congressman greg azar, who just got briefed by the white house on intubated with two experts. then special counsel jack smith manhattan the alvin bragg put out new potentially damning evidence against, who else, donald day trump in their respective cases. and setting the record straight on one henry a kissinger. the former secretary of state marks his 100th birthday, we will look back at his dark and very bloody legacy. good evening, i am many hassan. we have breaking news tonight, we have what they are calling a deal. just a short time ago, president biden spoke about that debt limit in principle, reaches we can do in his administration and the republican leadership in the house. we ve got good news, we just spoke with speaker mccarthy, and we have reached a bipartisan budget agre