american people. x news pola l shows that the president is facing serious competition from democratsfrom. he only captures 62% of the vote against challengers. robert kennedy jr. and marianne williamson. and worse, 60 seven percent of americans view a biden victory in 2020 four as they , quote , a deserve or setback for america. the media pointing out thatface president biden does face an uphill battle,ll a horrible newe horrible for joe biden. whrrible for joe biden. the president leads his democratic competitors by a huge margin, two thirds of all of the american peopleed surveyed. 66% of the publi, c say that a biden victory would either be a setback or a disaster for the united states . it isastes not an outlier. right. so our cnn poll had kennedy at 20%. we ve had two fox polls out 1 in the last month. one had hi.m at 16%. put the other one had him at 19%.r o kennedy is putting up a far more impressive showing than i would have thought when he first entered the race.
the l or barista coffee and espresso system. a masterpiece in taste it s opium in washington. there is still no deal to raise the debt ceiling, and at this hour, house republicans are holding a wig meeting to discuss what the process will be over the next few days, if in fact a deal is reached. president biden told reporters today that he is optimistic that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yes
december 16th, i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a justice served. a pair of election workers were terrorized by don trump supporters. yesterdaya ry awarded ruby freeman and shaye moss a total of 100 and $48 million in damages as a result of their civil this defamation lawsuit against really giuliani who repeatedly and falsely accused him of carrying out a elaborate election fraud scheme without producing a shred of evidence that could withstand scrutiny. the verdict is a new low for giuliani, who rose up the ranks of new york politics early in his career, but has been on a downward spiral for the better part of the past two decades. he s gone from being americas mere to a codefendant indicted alongside his longtime pal donald trump in fulton county s sprawling r.i.c.o. case. on top of, that giuliani faces a number of other lou legal troubles. yesterday wondered 48 million-dollar verdict pulsing comparison to the 1.3 billion dollars that dominion voting systems to s
sunday. live picture from the kennedy space center in florida where in just 90 minutes from now four passengers will lift off on a private mission to the international space station. the crew on board the axiom 2 mission includes the first woman to command a private space flight and the first saudi arabian woman to travel to space. much more on this historic mission later on this hour. first, we continue to cover the fast-changing developments in the high stakes talks to avoid a looming debt crisis. just a short time ago president biden and speaker of the house kevin mccarthy agreed to meet for another round of negotiations on raising the debt limit. and staff level talks between the two sides will resume in the next few hours. the two men agreeing to a one-on-one meeting after what mccarthy called a productive phone call today with the president, as the president flew home from the g7. so before departing, biden painted a grim picture of the talks telling reporters while the