and remembering an icon. tina turner the queen of rock & roll. and we begin this very busy hour with very latest from washington where time is literally running out for negotiators to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling. there s just one week until the treasury secretary s estimated deadline to stave off what could be a devastating debt default. top credit agency has now put the country s aaa credit rating on negative watch. pointing to partisanship as hindering a solution. here is what speaker mccarthy had to say just this morning. everybody is very professional in these meetings. look, i m a total optimist. we will get this done, and we will have a better bill because of it. and joining us this morning with more is garrett haake. also with us, cnbc s dominic chu. garrett, mccarthy seems optimistic about a deal. what are you hearing from the democratic side? no, that s exactly right, jose. on the fitch part of this specifically, democrats are frustrated. t
he thinks desantis will raise his taxes. that is an exact line you hear from a trump super pac ad. the desantis campaign says that s not true and democratic line of attack. it gives you a sense that people have already been seeing this debate that we will likely see for the next months to come. they have been seeing that on their television air waves before any official announcement occurred. dasha burns and shaquille brucer, thank you for being with us. with us now to continue our conversation is julienne castro. he is an msnbc political analyst. always a pleasure, my friend, to see you. you know a thing or two about running for president. what do you make of desantis campaign launch? i mean, it was a failure, jose. there s no way to put a pretty face on that launch. there s certain moments in a campaign where you know that more people than usual are watching.
her integrity or authenticity, but at the same time she struggled to identify a clear position and identify with voters who she was. i would go and talk to voters and if it was at harris or warren events, they said they knew harris was a prosecutor from california. when you ask about others, they were more familiar with her story. she was a individual that took pride and focus on people, for the people, as part of her slogan at the same time. struggle to identify for people, her own personal story. i think you saw her best moment when she said i was that little girl from the first debate talking about being bussed. that is when people felt that connection to her. but what you saw was a campaign that focused a lot of fundraising. they were not able to be on the television air waves in the last several months. while you see the air waves,
aide says that they re looking at the resources of it was not on the television air waves for the last couple months. instead of being out on the campaign trail, instead of the resources, they laid off just last month dozens of staffers unexpectedly. campaigns are often families, you know you can say it is a business, but it it is a family, and when dozens of staffers are left off, it leaves them with an operation feeling of their friends. they say it is difficult for harris to be making the asks of not only big donors, but
i will be watching kamala harris. she got a taste of the negative side of being a frontrunner where she found herself under attack including from tulsi gabbard being in the seat means you have a candidate on your back. we just identified the fact that seven candidates have already made the stage for the september debates. the rest of them, they have to meet the qualifications by august 28th. what are they going to be doing in the month of august to make sure they clear the path for themselves to make that debate stage? reporter: you re seeing a lot of this today with these candidates blitzing the television air waves. an event like a debate draws so many eyes from folks who are not the typical americans paying attention to the political process this early. any bounce that a candidate can get today, tomorrow, through this weekend will continue to echo. august is traditionally a very slow political month. people are on vacation. their kids are out of school. they re not watching the