quickly heating up this week as republican candidates begin firing shots at one another over who is the right person to lead the party against president biden in the 2024 election. but is the gop primary already shaping up to be a two-person race before former president trump and florida governor ron desantis? or is there a dark horse candidate voters should pay closer attention to? we re going to discuss that coming up. speaker mccarthy and i have had several productive conversations. our staffs continue to meet, and they re making progress. it s crunch time. it s not easy. we re going to make sure we re not just trying to get an agreement. we re trying to get something that s worthy of the american people. i thought we made progress yesterday. i thought we d make progress again today. i want to be able to solve this problem. we begin with the debt ceiling negotiators trying to finalize a deal with six days to go before the u.s. government faces a potential default.
losses. 300,000 killed, it s enormous. people just don t appreciate that. terrible. obviously, general, it s the memorial day weekend. any thoughts you want to offer looking at monday? yeah. well, i used to go down to still go down to the wall, vietnam memorial wall, section 34-e, young lieutenant kellogg was in the fight for his life. we won the fight, but lost 1/3 of my reconnaissance platoon. i go down there and talk to them. did we get it right, am i keeping the faith with you that we lost? americans need to understand that the young men and women we have on the ramp parts of freedom, defending against barbarians at the gate, this memorial day, give respect to them. i tell them, look, when i went over to the amphitheater, heard the national anthem, the last