and i m max foster. just ahead negotiations still ongoing, still unresolved. stewart rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on thursday. have a good day. next. memorial day weekend is just the start of what will be a busy summer travel season that we re expecting. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 26, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where they are moving closer to a day to pay the government s bill. it would reportedly raise the debt ceiling but cap spending levels for two years. and manu raju reports that nothing is final until it is final. reporter: negotiations between the speaker and his top allies and the white house still ongoing, still unresolved, even as the u.s. is considering prospects of the first ever debt default as soon as next week and amid warnings that the u.s. credit rating could be downgraded if the national down limit which now stands at $31.4 trillion
russia resorts to pictures of rubble to convince the public to get behind the war. the treasury department warning it has $39 billion left in cash as of tonight. yellen moves the dead ceiling deadline. an update to a story we told you about. $2 million and jail time after a chinese comedian made a comment about the communist party. wait until you see tonight. let s go out front. good evening. an aggressive strike. new video tshowing thick smoke what is believed to be a steel plant in mariupol. ukraine hit the city with two missiles. this is tactical but hugely symbolic in terms of a strike. this is where ukrainian troops were in the deadly standoff for russian forces for weeks last year. mariupol is even important staging ground for russian forces in southern ukraine. it s crucial. there s a flow of russian military convoys. a ukrainian strike changes the game. in russia, staid imte media is something new. i want to show you the drone video. this is from bakhmut. it is
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which according to an nbc news pull out today, 70% of americans don t want to see what s happening on tuesday. he s really going to go through with it. he can barely walk, barely speak, barely make sense, barely do the job he s got now but whatever four more years. four more years, he will struggle to get there four more days. that is not being mean it s what biden s own people think. as i m about to show you this is the most perfect delicious morsel of truth from the white house itself about the decrepit husk and the oval office. i spotted in the new york times piece about the coming biden campaign. obviously this is so good i been looking forward to sharing with us all week. this is from the white house. they briefed, the new york times that they get a try to keep biden off the campaign trail for as longest possible to avoid the risk of age-related mishaps, age-related mishaps. say that for a moment. the white house the biden white house biden to risk the age-related mishap