message from the courtroom one day after sentencing the malicious founder to 18 years in prison. and we re getting terrifying new video of the moment a man allegedly opened the cabin door of/south korean airliner while the plane was in mid flight. authorities are sharing new details tonight about the suspect. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the new developments on the debt ceiling. the u.s. treasury now offering negotiators a slightly longer timeline before a default unleashes economic catastrophe. last hour right here in the situation room, i got reaction from the house minority leader, democratic congressman hakeem jeffries. can you guarantee that house democrats and you re the leader of the democrats will deliver the votes needed to pass any deal that s negotiated? well, one of the challenges that we confront is that it s unclear how many votes house repu
. all right. this just in to cnn, president biden just weighed in on the debt ceiling negotiations, the critical debt ceiling negotiations. let s go straight to our jeremy diamond who s over at the white house to get an update. i understand the president is now sounding pretty optimistic. reporter: not only is the president sounding optimistic about the status of the negotiations and the prospects for a deal, but he even said that he believes that by tonight they may have a clearer sense of whether they can get a deal. listen. with regard to the debt limit, things are looking good. very optimist ic. i hope we ll have some clearer evidence tonight before the clock strikes 12:00, that we have a deal. but it s very close, and i m optimistic. negotiations going on. i m hopeful we ll know by tonight whether we are going to be able to have a deal. and this comes as, of course, we re learning of this new
hawkeye stays this weekend. they re giving speeches, kissing babies, all in an effort to make sure voters remember them when the iowa caucuses roll around next february. who is not there in the front-runner, joe biden long-shot candidate marianne williamson is so she actually moved into a in des moines, clearly hoping that residential equals presidentiale in voters minds. that may be over le optimist ic and leyla santiago is there. according to the there are fewer than 2 million registered voters, are even bigger than that, so how has iowa become such an enormous state listen,
i m cautiously optimist ic base on the job that the prosecution put on in this case and we ll see what they have. it may just be a question. they may not have a decision right now. thank you very much. we re watching the george zimmerman second degree murder trial. i want to toss it over to chris jansing for more on this story. there are three possibilities here, one, they could have a verdict, number two, they could be done for the night or, three, they could be done for the night. let s review where we have been so far. they started deliberating yesterday, deliberated for about three and a half hours. of course, they have been in since 9:00 this morning. the judge has been really very lenient with them in the sense of she has allowed them to do this the way that they re comfortable doing it, the way that they want to do it. so she even said to them if you want to continue to talk and deliberate over lunch, that s