house. both sides pointed to negotiating teams to focus on the issue and two sources familiar with the discussions say they held a late night meeting at the capitol. we have a shot at exactly the roosevelt room right where the president is expected to come out and speak in just a few seconds, but i want to go with nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. good morning. there is only 15 days left until the june 1st deadline. where do things stand now and where do they go from here? reporter: well, look, they re looking a little bit better today than they were over the weekend and yesterday. certainly now all parties seem to agree that default is not an option and they said it pretty clearly at this point. that should mean a little bit of a sigh of relief as we watch this new negotiating group move us eventually hopefully toward the finish line. this negotiation now is starting to look a little bit more like 2011 than at any other point during these negotiations. that s beca
when you watch the speaker who had been very pessimistic with me and other reporters in recent days about where he felt these negotiations were. and then you watch him come more in line with where the white house is in these negotiations, which is saying there is renewed optimism over at least where things stand and the potential for a deal here. that s not to say, though, there is not still roadblocks, but better than it was. and, ali vitali, learning from you as i do every time i get a chance to speak to you, give us a context of, you mentioned 2011, what can we learn from those negotiations and that moment? reporter: that was yet another debt ceiling negotiation where we watched then president obama deputize then vice president joe biden to be in these negotiations with mitch mcconnell. we know mcconnell at this point is sort of taking a back seat to speaker kevin mccarthy in large part because mccarthy has the tougher reality is within his republican house conference here of tr