you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we re at a crucial moment in the high-stakes debt ceiling talks. we re waiting for details on a phone call that just wrapped up in the last hour between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. negotiations are down to one final sticking point, safety net for social programs. leaders may have as little as eight days to prevent the u.s. from defaulting on its debt. many experts predict economic disaster if that happens. manu raju is up on capitol hill. manu, i was hoping since you were there in front of the cameras for us today that that meant i think this is probably our strongest indicator, that you were on capitol hill for us. president and kevin mccarthy spoke. at this point if the speaker were to come out and touk alk t reporters, that would be a good sign. you tell us. reporter: that s right, jim. the speaker said today he would be the one to make the announcement that there is a deal. well, he
with harry maguire already ruled out of the squad through injury, fellow centre halfjohn stones missed training today with an illness adding to england s fitness concerns in defence. the sense that southgate will have to draw on all his experience if he s to finally guide his team to glory. dan roan, bbc news, blankenhain. time for a look at the weather. here s stav da naos. tonight, rishi sunak underfire for the conservative government s record, as keir starmer refuses to rule out a series of tax rises. will any of it shift the dial? good evening. welcome to newsnight, with the best insight into tonight s interviews rishi sunak and sir keir starmer gave to sky s beth rigby and the answers they both gave to an audience of voters in grimsby. we re going to talk live to the home secretary and labour s shadow paymaster general. as soon as we establish communications. we can see them, we cannot quite hear them yet. and later, we ll speak to the deputy leader of the greens. ashraf
This election marks the Largest Senate games for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate sea seat. As of now, we picked up it looks like three. It could be four. Perhaps it could be two. But we picked up a lot. And most likely the number will be three. You people probably know that better than i do at this point. Because you have looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In the last 80 years, a sitting president s party has only gained a cumulative total of
eight senate seats. Averaging one per decade. So we have picked up two, three, four, that is a big percentage of that number. So in the last 80 years, you think, only eight seats. In President Obamas first Midterm Election, he lost six senate seats including in the deep blue state of massachusett massachus
in the house and the senate. as we have just heard, a sizable contingency of the house republican conference may try to obstruct it, so it would be nice to say, oh, yes, they were clearly strategizing to make sure they got this thing announced at exactly the right time where markets wouldn t freak out, maybe. but i think more likely they should have gotten this done yesterday or two months ago and they re just taking what they can get in terms of time. yeah, we ve all been looking for white smoke in all this, but perhaps it was catherine s cat that was going to be the indication as to whether or not we have a debt limit deal. catherine, one of the things hotly debated and it shouldn t be debated is whether or not there would be economic serious ramifications were the country to crash through the debt ceiling. i was talking with tim, a republican member of the house earlier on in this program several hours ago.
or the reality versus what you want. and so much of these tax rises are, yeah, the freezing of the threshold, so things you re sort of not meant to even really notice, and quite a lot of them are quite a long way in the future. and then you look at them in the overall context of all the financial decisions made today, and actually the tax raising things seem quite actually quite small compared to all the attention that we give them in the news. yeah, i mean, ithink there was some debate before. i was going to call it- the budget, the autumn statement, i should say, j that actually the markets wouldn t want it all to happen today, and that they d sort i of make some announcements. but i think the markets reacted fairly well to this, and when i used to do. the budget programme, it was a nightmare programme to do, because the chancellorl would, you know, fire i off a thousand numbers. and i was desperately writing them down, thinking i m- about to report this. and that was gordon brown