the u.s. treasury pushes back the possible default deadline from june 1st to june 5th, giving debt limit negotiators to reach an agreement. the house minority leader, hakeem jeffries, joins me in just a moment r for an exclusive interview. in ukraine, at least two people are dead and 30 injured after a russian attack on a medical clinic, ukraine claims was deliberate. we ll have a live report from the war zone. and as americans prepare to set out for the memorial day weekend, cnn is at the airport and on the highways with everything you need to know about one of the busiest travel days of the year. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story this evening, the u.s. treasury says debt limit negotiators have slightly, slightly more time to try to strike a deal. but it s still not clear if the two sides can reach an agreement before the nation defaults. from congress to the white
not default in 11 days when the u.s. government runs out of money and is unable to pay its bills. we have team coverage of all of these new developments. phil mattingly is in japan at the g7 summit. let s begin with melanie in washington, d.c. help us understand where things stand. is the president optimistic? reporter: what i would say is the talks have not blown up completely yet but they are hanging by a thread. after a weekend of rejected offers, installed talks, the negotiators were really looking for a much-needed reset and they may have gotten it in that phone call today between speaker mccarthy and president biden. they talked a little bit about biden s trip but most importantly they agreed to meet one on one tomorrow, while staff will resume negotiations later tonight. here s a little bit more about what mccarthy said. i believe it was a productive phone call. so at the end of the phone call what we agreed to do is we re going to have patrick mchenry get back tog
plus deepening legal roles with the former president, as amanda alvin bragg turns the screws on trump s former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a fight over the nation s debt limit as the deadline to reach a deal is now less than two weeks away. it is a show down the world is closely watching. as house republicans threaten to use our economy as a pawn to force spending cuts. nbc news has learned a, quote, candid discussion on the desk limit house republicans stretched late into the night friday. however, house speaker kevin mccarthy nowsays that negotiations won t resume until president biden retur
good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news. signs of cautious optimism in the debt ceiling standoff with as few as ten days left before the federal government runs out of cash. with house republicans trying to extract major budget cuts in exchange for allowing new borrowing to pay the bills, president biden and house speaker mccarthy have just wrapped up talks at the white house. i felt we had a productive discussion. i believe we can get it done. we ll hear from the white house. earlier today, treasury secretary janet yellen reminded lawmakers of the stakes saying, it s, quote, highly likely, unquote the government will default as soon as june 1st. so, what s the status of the negotiations after speaker mccarthy s meeting? the talks are still very much alive, which is a positive sign, after a tumultuous weekend of negotiations. both sides are still very much committed to getting a bipartisan deal. speaker kevin mccarthy, as you heard, struck a very positive tone
mar-a-lago maintenance worker helped move boxes into a storage room one day before a doj official came for the classified documents. the work was reportedly helping trump valet move the boxes, but did not know what was inside of them. that comes from a new york times report with one anonymous source that nbc has yet come from that account. it comes on the heels of a washington post report which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers before his office received the may 2022 subpoena. more shocking our tails for that report revealed that trump show those classified documents to other people. quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others. trump is insisted that he is done no wrong. i had every right to under the presidential records act, you have the presidential records act, i took what i took and it