over the past three years, as chief of staff of the air force, general brown has become known for his signature approach, accelerate, change or lose. general, you re right on. as i often said, our world is at an inflection point where the decisions we make today will determine the course of our world for decades to come. to keep the american people safe, we have to adapt and act quickly. we have to manage our competition with china and meet the reality of renewed aggression in europe. we need to make sure we retain our competitive edge in an age where emerging technologies from ai to 3-d printing could fundamentally change the character of conflict. with general brown as chairman, i know i ll be able to rely on his advice and i ll also be able to have a leader who is unafraid to speak his mind. as someone who will deliver a message that needs to be hard and will always do the right thing when it s hard. that s the number one quality a president needs in a chairman. that s the
viewers watching from all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, u.s. lawmakers insist default is not an option, but there s no deal yet to raise the debt limit. ahead, what this could mean for the global economy. plus new reporting from the washington post. employees of former president trump allegedly moved boxes of papers at mar-a-lago a day before the justice department showed up to collect classified documents. memorial day weekend is just the start of what s going to be a very busy summer travel season that we re expecting. yes, it is the unofficial start of summer and people are packing up and heading out of town for the long weekend. just ahead, we have your travel and weather forecast. we do begin in washington where marathon talks to avoid the first-ever u.s. government debt default appear to be making progress. sources tell cnn the white house and congressional republicans are getting closer to a deal to raise the debt limit and cap
before the u.s. defaults. not everyone is confident a deal can be reached, with at least one top republican negotiator warning a deal could come together as soon as today or fall apart entirely. what is the mood on capitol hill right now? reporter: good afternoon. the mood is more optimistic than we ve heard in days. negotiators here this morning are saying they think they re closing in on a deal and really it s all about having an agreement on the agreement and hashing out the remaining sticking points, which we re told are on work requirements and spending caps. we heard speaker mccarthy came to the capitol shortly before 10:30 a.m. this morning. he says he feels more confident than he has and they ve made progress, but some sticking points remain. i asked him if he thinks he would be able to get his full conference behind whatever deal they re able to strike, and he said he does think that will happen. he also said he thinks a deal could potentially come together as earl
i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn t been true for almost 100 years. yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn t been a politician who said, i m going to make this for third graders to understand what i m talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i m not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good. oh, my god. one of the wettest we ve had. good morning. welcome to morning joe. hope you ve had a good week. it is friday. friday, may 26th. let s bring in with us the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. the host of inside with jen psaki, jen psaki. she s a former white house press
ceiling drama. the white house and lawmakers rushing to reach a deal on the u.s. debt limit. but the clock is ticking. with just nine days before the government could run out of money to pay its bills. the final days of an american fighting in ukraine. cnn pieces together the details of a u.s. veteran s death in bakhmut, revealing a new perspective on the war s longest battle. plus, a plot to kill the queen? the fbi releases new documents detailing a potential assassination threat against queen elizabeth ii. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with laila harrak. welcome. the white house and republicans are closing in on a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avert a financial catastrophe. a live look for you there on capitol hill. and negotiators have been furiously working on capitol hill, and we re told an agreement could be reached as soon as today. any deal would then have to be passed by congress, which is far from a sure thing. they do have a li