chris jansing picks up our coverage right now. good day, i m chris jansing in new york city. happy memorial day. and welcome to a special edition of chris jansing reports. the agreement on the debt limit is not done but is done but the fight s not finished. the white house and the speaker s office now in an 11th hour push to pick up every last vote in congress, trying to make sure their big deal doesn t go bust, but today is also about putting politics aside and honoring the men and women who have fought and died for this country. you might have seen the sombering images out of arlington national cemetery where the president laid the wreath and delivered that memorial day address. also this hour, a second memorial day address. one you ll only see here on msnbc. this one from president zelenskyy. as he salutes the americans and ukrainians still fighting for freedom. that is just a few minutes away. but we begin with the intense pressure of step two of the debt ceiling deal
today where they have to go through a whole lot of red tape. so there are a few things in this bill but ultimately, that s why it deserves a good hard look. and the real answer here is how do we make sure we can get that gavel out of mccarthy s hand so he is not in the decision seat in the future to make these types of compromises. if you were a professional gambler, do you think this is going to go through? i think it probably will. mccarthy overplayed his hand. if you look at where we started out, the republican bill would have kicked 600,000 americans off. it would have slashed veterans benefits. repealed the most important measures of the climate change bill. the inflation reduction act. on those measures, mccarthy got nothing. he went way too for. there s things in this bill i still don t like and if the president and his administration are still going to have to explain but i think ultimately, this is going to be a win for the president if he s able to