duffie. we begin with the latest republican entering the 2024 race, ron desantis. he finally announced his ambition during an event last night. desantis joined our own trace gallagher on fox news last night. i am running to load a great american comeback. we know the country is on the wrong track. we see it with our own eyes and and we feel it in our bones. we have a president who s a listless vessel and not dealing with the challenges. it does not have to be this way. it is a choice. we can choose a better pathway. desantis outlined what he would do on his first day in the oval office. what s the first thing president desantis would do? the border, there is a lot you can do, ripping out biden s anti-american policy, you can do some of that executive and legislative as well and reconstitute aligning the administrative states, we have a proxy that s out of control. you need to be willing to use article two power to bring the administrative states to heal. i will do tha
york. john, hello to you. john: hello to you, sandra. i am john roberts in washington. this is america reports. president biden and speaker mccarthy are working to nail down a deal. mccarthy says that could be any day now. despite both sides struggling to find common ground. sandra: the stakes couldn t be higher. rating agency putting the country s aaa rating on negative watch now as we approach the deadline. house majority leader steve scalise takes us inside the negotiations when he joins us live next h hour. let s go to the hill. what s the mood there? hey there, we are closer and closer to a deal, probably won t happen today according to folks that are close into the meetings and negotiations. this is all about leverage. and we are seeing clearly now that democrats don t really have much of it. a progressive chair woman a mill a eye a pal wouldn t admit to tanking a supposed bad deal if presented by the white house, and that is a huge take away because we are talk
i am just saying. it is just fake. they re allergic to the truth. then you need more shade because you have a rash. thanks for watching. america reports is next. i don t know if we have a thing going round and round. he knows where we are. this deal won t solve all the problems. the president took a lot of things off the table but this will put us in the first step. that was house speaker kevin mccarthy, giving an update on where debt talks stand today. we are seven days out from potential default. any moment press secretary karine jean-pierre is set to brief reporters. i am sandra smith in new