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
pointing to other parts. if you fly to the moon, i ll be watching the skies for your reentry. if you say you hate my guts, i ll get new guts. in her affidavit, roberta laundrie referenced two children s books that she says the letter was based on. the petito family attorney rejected that premise. there is nothing about burying a body or bringing a shovel or putting something in a cake if somebody goes to prison although mama bear did say that she would bake little bear a cake on his birthday. reporter: and written on the front of the envelope? burn after reading. jean casarez, cnn, new york. outrage is growing in mississippi after a police officer shot an 11-year-old in the chest after the boy called 911 for help. time is up. we gave you 48 hours do the right thing. and 11-year-old black boy in the
technology that ukraine had. they can cause a great deal of damage. they frustrate ukraine at a time when it is trying to fight on the frontlines. and the concern is that iran could provide more than just drones. this relationship between moscow and tehran is deepening. the cooperation is becoming more and more important as russia turns to iran for help to replenish its arsenal of course on those front lines oig. iran sees an opportunity here to rebalance, if you will, its relationship with moscow. experts tell us. and the key thing to remember, the caspian sea, look at that map, u.s. doesn t have a footprint there. may toe do nato doesn t have a footprint there. so difficult to stop this atth if at all. thank you, salma. still ahead, only two candidates seem to be a viable challenge to president biden. how are they faring, we ll look at the latest cnn polling. plus a letter to laundrie
and she was hoping to repair the relationship before they left. reporter: petitos say laundries should be found liable for intentional infliction of emotional express because they refused to give them any answers. laundries argue they had no duty to respond to them. weeks after gabby was reported missing following a highly publicized nationwide search, the 22-year-old s remains were found in wyoming. a coroner ruled her cause of death to be strangulation and the manner of death homicide. brian disappeared during the search for gabby, his body discovered soon after hers 00 notebook found near his remains reveal he claimed responsibility for gabby s death according to the fbi. a medical examiner ruled he died by suicide. only permits discovery regarding matters that are relevant. reporter: laundrie s family attorney said the letter should not be interpreting literally