situation room. happening now, president biden and house speaker mccarthy are scrambling big time to sell their debt limit deal to lawmakers. their agreement could avoid a catastrophic default if congressional leaders can find the votes and push the bill across the finish line before it s too late. only a few days left. in ukraine, a rare daytime missile barrage shakes the capital city of kyiv. the russian attack apparently repelled by air defenses as ukrainian forces hit. they re nearly ready to launch their highly anticipated counteroffensive. we re keeping our eyes to the roads and the skyways on one of the busiest travel days of the year. what you can expect if you re heading to the airport or hitting the road on this memorial day. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, this is a situation room special report. our top story this evening, the debt limit deal between president biden and speaker mccarthy is about to be pu
officials and other colleagues trying to understand what the implications were. so i am going back to the hill today, going to meet with a lot of of my colleagues and get to where we need to go. i know we have to pay our bills. that is probably the most overriding thing driving me. but as i said yesterday, there are parts of this bill that i would not vote for if they were a free standing bill. the whole process is not one that is the way that the government should operate. we need regular order. that to me, congresswoman, sounds like a reluctant yes at this point. am i reading that right? i am not going to tell you one way or the other because i am going to keep asking questions and if i learn anything that s very disturbing today, i will have you know, i want to understand how precedent setting this bill is. how will this impact future bills? what are the domestic spending cuts, what are the programs really going to cut? are seniors going to be hurt. real questions th
carolina coast sharks have been seen and a 15-year-old surfer was even injured in an apparent shark attack. the teenager was dangling from her surfboard with their body in the water when she felt something on her leg. she was not seriously hurt, thank goodness. this fisherman captured a tiger shark attacking his kayak off the coast of hawaii. the fisherman believes the shark mistook it for a seal. only 57 shark attacks and all of last year. humans are not really on the sharks menu, we should say. people overly all overly worried about these shark attacks. 57 out of the amount of people that actually enter the water across the entire planet, that is quite rare, as you are pointing out. i think we are misrepresenting what shark attacks are. sharks live in the ocean, we live on land. if someone were just to come into my house one day come into my territory, i may take a bite out of them, too. this is a wonderful segue. what if you are eating at home and an intruder threw the
both paries as leaders try to secure their votes. plus, president biden and former president trump mark memorial day with very different messages. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis makes a pitch to voters ahead of the first event of his presidential campaign. we ll show you what he said. also ahead, we are following a developing story out of moscow this morning. drones attacking residential areas for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 30th. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, johnson lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is with us. and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. joe, on the debt ceiling, you said they d get there, but how d they finally do it? they had no choice. they got there. you know, we live in this world that s designed this
crosshairs. ssia unleashes the largest wave of drone attacks on ukraine s capital on the eve of the city s founding anniversary. what s in a name? tonight we ll focus on the struggle of some in the asian community and their efforts to take back their cultural identity. murky mystery. what s turning this part of a venice canal bright green? and later, condolence call. as the nation pauses to remember our fallen, we ll tell you how one woman helped change army protocol, bringing dignity and comfort to families. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from washington with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. after days of negotiations and late-night conversations to increase the country s $31.4 trillion debt limit, tonight there appears to be a bipartisan relief. the president and republican leadership now have a tentative agreement to head off a potential default on government loans. however, there s still many hurdles in the way as