You again next week hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Right. Now us is on high alert and actively preparing for a significant potential attack by iran on us and israeli targets in the middle east soon as next week, thats according to a Senior Biden Administration official, iran is blaming israel for an airstrike in syria this week that killed at least seven iran let me and officials, including two top military commanders, were also following an Important Development in the humanitarian aid crisis in gaza israel is preparing to reopen the Erez Crossing in northern gaza, at least temporarily to bring in aid that move follows a meeting between President Biden is israeli Prime Minister met navajo. This wig the backdrop to all of this tomorrow, mark six months since the hamas attack on israel sparked, which sparked the war in gaza. Priscilla alvarez is in washington for us and Nic Robertson in jerusalem. Priscilla, you first,
locked in a standoff over raising the debt limit. and today mccarthy is holding a conference call with house republicans. tomorrow he will deliver a speech at the new york stock exchange as he makes his pitch to investors on wall street. cnn s elena train is joining us right now, elena is set the stage for what is at stake on capitol hill. well fred. the looming debt ceiling deadline is really the number one priority for congress. right now. it s also a key source of anxiety among democratic and republican lawmakers alike who want to avoid a default with the big news on this is really that house republican leaders have been gone, putting together a one year deal that would look at raising the revenue and finding cuts for about three trillion $24 trillion over the next 10 years, and house speaker kevin mccarthy wants to fast track a bill like that and try to get it on the floor. in may, which is no easy feat, given that republicans are divided on this issue, and they have a very slim ma
have been proposing, now, a bigger problem as well has been that president biden and speaker mccarthy have not held negotiations on this for several weeks. they last met in early february. and as of now, there is no meeting on the books in the foreseeable future as well. we ll see if that changes with this latest proposal. okay, elena, thanks so much are led from the white house. is there any response coming from the white house thus far on hearing this news? well fred. so far, the white house s position on this remains unchanged. president biden has repeatedly said that he would not let go negotiate over the debt ceiling that he does not think there should be any strings attached, and that ultimately he believes that this is congress s constitutional obligation to raise the debt ceiling completely clean. the white house has not responded specifically to this proposal. but one thing that the white house has repeatedly pushed for and said that they would sit down to talk about is the bu
floor in may, which is no easy feat, given that republicans are really divided on this issue. issue and how to approach it as well as he has a very slim majority of republicans in the house, but really the strategy from mccarthy and other house republicans is to try and use this to garner as much support as they can within the republican base and then strong arm the white house and pressure them into going back to the negotiating table and showing them that any sort of debt limit deal must have strings attached. the big issue, though here has been that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy have not sat down to negotiate on this, uh for months now, and the deadline is looming, so everyone is looking to when another potential white house meeting between biden and the hill will take place. okay and, um, now are let at the white house. where does the white house stand on what could be a real breakthrough? but in general, where are they on this whole debt ceiling battle. well
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