deal. republican south carolina congresswoman nancy mace who is looking for both parties to settle this mess right now. welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto, this is your world. we begin with jackie with more drama surrounding the president s big announcement. jacqui, we saw you at the white house press briefing a short time ago. didn t see that you got any questions in. yeah, it s been a hot second since february 27, by my count. quite a long time. we will keep trying. even more broadly, you know, the press corp as a whole didn t get a lot of answers about what went in to the president s personal decision making with this re-election campaign. and we also don t know where to direct those questions. the press secretary was not able to give us a specific person to talk to because a lot of those staffing decisions are still not finalized. however, amid a lot of looming questions about the president s age, this question to the press secretary seemed to trip
meets right now to prep kevin mccarthy s bill. a senior republican source says they re less optimistic about passage of the bill compared to monday. mccarthy is not sure if he needs to change the bill to flip votes, but republicans suggest that the president s absence in the process is conspicuous. to not even coming within a middle of the definite defect on top of the rest, it s time for the president to stop the partisan stubbornness, join speaker mccarthy at the grownup s table and get talking. it s about the math. mccarthy can only lose four votes on his side. mccarthy scores a win if he passes the bill. a defeat is catastrophic. it sends a negative signal to the markets. if mccarthy is unable to get a bill through, it s kind of disastrous for him. it shows that he doesn t really have control over his caucus.