politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. in just hours, a meeting with crippling consequences if it leads to nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house to talk through a debt deal, but democrats already worrying prooid sounds close to caving. plus a picture of fear. new and disturbing video shows a baseball bat-wheeleding attacker. beating two staffers at a congressional office. and ron desantis nears a 2024 launch. he will enter the rain rays with infrastructure and big money, but also with deflated expectation was a months of fierce donald trump attacks. up first for us, time to get serious. debt talks are going nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house at 3:00 p.m. it s clear the principles enter the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome
so we don t know what this situation is. they are saying this wasn t politically motivated. we have seen instances of real plolitical motivation, of some f these who have been radicalized by the rhetoric they hear. and what s happened, there s just the list is grow ing longe and longer of the members of congress who has been attacked and the threats are going growthing longer and longer as well. you have omar who has full security around a lot because of the number of threats against her. and where security was, the capital police chief said it used to be in the building. and then it migrated they got more security. they can pay you some funds for their homes. and then now they have security going to and from the airports until they get on the airplane. so the security bubble is growing. but it does come down to just the amount of divisiveness in this country and the willingness of people to act on it. there s a political tenor in this country that members of