any deal will needs to be approved by a divided congress, with a vote expected on wednesday. mccarthy spoke in the past hour. ijust got out i just got out of over the president. i spoke to him twice today. after weeks of negotiations we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do. but i believe this is an agreement in principle that is worthy of the american people. it has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, rain in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programmes. there is a lot more within the bill. we still have more work to do tonight to finish all the writing of it. i do want to take a moment, though, and thank gary graves and patrick mchenry for their work on this. and for all the work that we re going to continue to do. and i know you will have a lot of questions. i m not going to take them tonight. out of respect i to breathe our members
everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. i m about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think we re in good shape. house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the deal will pass. february 1st i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to be able to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let mark be able to work again, cut red tape, get some 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 we wanted. we did a conference call with our conference and over 95% were overwhelmingly excited about what they see. they re getting a text
leader, the first time biden will take questions from reporters since launching his reelection campaign. he took questions last month alongside justin trudea, hasn t held a news conference in six months. questions mount about the president s age and ability to perform the duties of the job and whether vice president harris is the best choice to succeed him, should biden not be able to complete his term. just yesterday karine jean-pierre refused to say if biden planned to serve all eight years. does the president plan to serve all eight years? i m just not going to get ahead of the president, that is something for him to decide. i will not get ahead of it. there is a 2024 campaign and anything related to that, i refr you to that. kayleigh: didn t take long for the clean-up on aisle five, tweeting less than an hour later, we take the law seriously, i wanted to be sure i didn t go into 2024 more than appropriate under the law. if re-elected, president biden would serve all
country maga extremists are lining up to take on the bedrock freedoms. cutting social security that you paid for your entire life and cutting taxes for the wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women can make. banning books and telling people who they can love all while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. harris: what about biden s age and fitness for office? some voters are saying they re very disappointed he did not follow through with his suggestion of serving just one term. remember that? president biden: look, i view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. there is an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. three the future of this country. harris: it might be the planet s longest bridge. majority of democratic voters who have appreciated what he said had it happened. recent fox poll shows 52% wanted somebody else at the top of the ticket. the rnc is mocking the president s re-election bid by putting out recheck biden.com.
on ron desantis kicking a off his world tour. we begin with jacqui. hi, jacqui. hi, sandra. there s questions about whether this announcement will be for lack of a better word kind of a rush job. we have not seen any recent blitz across the states to tout his achievements like we were told would happen with the president. there s reports that campaign staffing decisions haven t been made yet. and there s not any major announcement. no event for that announcement anyway that we know of. instead, we re told to expect an announcement over social media according to reports. that is the president s preferred method of communication lately. the white house is continuing to side step traditional media, keeping him at a distance and setting up influencers to get their messaging out. biden didn t give any hints this afternoon. ready to run again, mr. president? might be an uphill battle regardless of the roll-out. and nbc news poll shows 70% of americans don t want president biden