we still have a lot of work to do. but with lawmakers on both sides skeptical, do they have the votes to actually pass it? i ll speak exclusively with house progressive leader, congresswoman pramila jayapal and gop congressman, dusty johnson, next. and room to grow? more republican presidential hopefuls jump in. i m running to lead our great american comeback. i m the candidate, the far left fears the most. with the former president dominating the polls, can they cut into his lead. republican governor chris sununu joins me exclusively. plus, fallen heroes. this memorial day, veterans reflect on their comrades who did not come home. i think about them probably every day almost. yeah, really. you don t every forget it. a look at some of the incredible americans we lost at war, coming up. hi, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is waiting to exhale. president biden and speaker mccarthy last night announced that they have struck an agree
at any moment now, president biden is going to speak on the phone and finalize the bill. the president had this to say about the negotiations. reporter: mr. president, are you positive this deal will get to your desk? yes, it will. i m about to call mccarthy at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. reporter: what are the sticking points? none. should all democrats vote for this bill? still anyone s guess if the house has enough votes to get this bill to the president s desk. but speaker mccarthy says he s confident the deal will pass. back to february 1st, i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let america be able to work again, cut red tape, get work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit save grow. it doesn t get everything everybody wanted but that s in divided government, that s where we end up. i
President biden and speaker mccarthy last night announced that they have struck an agreement in principle to lift the nation s borrowing cap and avert a looming fiscal capacity, with the u.s. set to run out of money to pay its bills as early as monday, june 5th. but a big question remains, can they now get this deal passed in time? president biden acknowledged last night that the agreement is, quote, a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want, unquote. and already, we know about deep concerns from progressives and from conservatives. mccarthy on a call with republicans last night reportedly said that democrats did not get a single thing they wanted in the deal, and mccarthy emphasized what the gop got in exchange for raising the debt limit, capping non-defense domestic spending, canceling billions in irs funding, and temporarily imposing work requirements on child lest, able-bodied adults younger than 55, who received food stamps. president biden says the agreement prot
how many votes do you think you ll get? how many votes can you afford to lose? we re starting the whipping process now. i have talked about to maybe between two and three dozen republican members pitch not had a single one of them tell me i can t support that. i just gave you the names of three you can call, maybe. buck, norman and gude, who might have some thoughts. i m not sure calling bob gude is the perfect way to get his vote. bob gude will not vote for this thing. it doesn t matter with mother teresa comes back from the dead and told him to vote for it, he is not going to. 70 members of the main street caucus, are they all going street for it? i would be surprised. i haven t talked to every single one of them, but everyone i m talking to, jake, understands what when you re reducing spending and peeling back the regulatory state, when you are unlocking american energy and getting people back to work, this is a big deal. what concessions did mccarthy make to biden and
President. he s got a very telegenic family, wife, kids, the whole nine yards. when they put that with the other stuff, that will be helpful to his launch. your former colleague, u.s. senator tim scott from north carolina also joined the field. what do you think of him? he s a complete contrast to donald trump and ron desantis. it s refreshing for the republican party to have somebody that doesn t engage in the bickering that tim scott and ron desantis want to do. this is going to be weird, but he s the only true conservative that s actually in the race right now. his voting record in the united states congress is more conservative than most. his voting record associated with donald trump was 97 to 98%. he is a true conservative, compared to what you ll see ron desantis and donald trump do. i think that s weird, and scott knows this better than i. i think that s weird, because