is the crowded gop field playing right into the former president s hands? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the scramble to avoid a historic default on the u.s. debt. president biden and speaker mccarthy are both working the phones tonight as they try to rally support from skeptical lawmakers. cnn is covering the race to pass the agreement from every angle. the stakes right now for the american people and, indeed, the world economic situation are enormous. our correspondents are over at the white house and up on capitol hill. we re getting new details right now and a key democratic leader, congressman james clyburn, is standing by live. we ll get to him in a few moments. first to cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. what is the latest where you are over at the white house. reporter: this entire negotiation process was driven by the understanding this was
house and we re facing a debt crisis and so i think it s important that democrats focus on what these candidates are saying on the trail. you have our country hopefully not going into default and the two front-runners, ron desantis and donald trump saying, maybe we should let it go into default and so while democrats are focusing on governing they should, the campaign should also be paying attention to what these candidates are saying, because that s the type of leader they would actually be. all right, guy, thank you very, very much. just ahead, we re watching other important news on this holiday travel situation as americans return to the roads and the skies in numbers not seen since the pandemic.
school in the city and be graded at the same level? if i thought standardized tests actually were reflective of what people were doing, but people opposed to those things had a group kids take them back to back and the range was 150 points. you re talking about something different. you re making a very good point that within the a.c.t. or s.a.t., you may want to dig in and find out and make sure the questions are fair to the widest group of kids. rather than telling the colleges what they should or shouldn t be looking at. plus, it s a fairly low bar, what we re asking american students to pass. if they re going to be competitive with students from all around the world, passing the s.a.t. and a.c.t. is probably not that much to ask. i got the lowest score you could possibly get in the s.a.t. stay tuned for an update on the holiday travel situation. also coming up, six americans we should be very thankful for this thanksgiving. we might have lost the revolutionary war had it not
know how crazy this is. people in line starting at midnight tonight go into the stores. temperatures will be in the 20s, windchill down towards zero in the northern plains. but i m sure they ll line up. that will not scare them away. i know. people on a mission. have you done it before ever? i haven t. i want to be home with my family. so i haven t. but i watch those who do. get on you. all right. thank you very much. and bill s giving us the green light. millions of americans heading home for thanksgiving but the turkey trot has gotten off on the wrong foot for some travelers. look at the nightmare on the west coast. this was the scene in los angeles last night. that s interstate 405 one of the nation s busiest freeways but looks like a parking lot. look at that. like a christmas lit-up parade with red and white lights. for more on the holiday travel situation, joined by courtney scott. welcome to you. happy thanksgiving. glad you re here. crazy travel in l.a. and other places