quickly heating up this week as republican candidates begin firing shots at one another over who is the right person to lead the party against president biden in the 2024 election. but is the gop primary already shaping up to be a two-person race before former president trump and florida governor ron desantis? or is there a dark horse candidate voters should pay closer attention to? we re going to discuss that coming up. speaker mccarthy and i have had several productive conversations. our staffs continue to meet, and they re making progress. it s crunch time. it s not easy. we re going to make sure we re not just trying to get an agreement. we re trying to get something that s worthy of the american people. i thought we made progress yesterday. i thought we d make progress again today. i want to be able to solve this problem. we begin with the debt ceiling negotiators trying to finalize a deal with six days to go before the u.s. government faces a potential default.
pandemic. it s the most significant change for middle class people, for poor people, people trying to get into the middle class, in decades, in a very long time. and it has amazing things in it. this is a critical moment. this is a moment where we have to make sure that the american people know what s in this plan. they understand what s in this plan. and by the way, this bill is 90 some percent coronavirus centric. this is similar to the bill that we wrote in may, the heroes act, some of which was implemented in december, much of it now. so in a moment i m going to talk to democratic congresswoman jackie speier about covid and what is next for her party. while democrats are focusing on covid relief, the republican party has hoped to find the issue they hope will blunt that, immigration. kevin mccarthy about to lead a fact finding mission to the border as republicans step up the rhetoric on the issue. is the biden open border policies that are inviting even more ill
Then a Leave Minister said they had waited their life to do it. Theresa may wants to get on and trigger article 50 well before her self imposed deadline of the end of march. The possible date is the ninth or 10th of march. It has to be a formal letter from the uk. The reason why they want to get an early if they have been advised the European Commission and the European Council will be able to give their formal response before the first round of the president ial election on the 23rd of april, but only if they go early. Obviously, if they do not go early, the second round of the french president ial election is made seventh. Hugh knows. May. Not a great day for labour. Divided, 47 mps defied a three line whip, three members of the Shadow Cabinet resigned, although between ten and 13 Labour Frontbenchers are still in place and as i understand Itjeremy Corbyn is in no rush to do the usual thing, to sack them, hes going to wait for next week and see if any of the amendments we see at the
losses. 300,000 killed, it s enormous. people just don t appreciate that. terrible. obviously, general, it s the memorial day weekend. any thoughts you want to offer looking at monday? yeah. well, i used to go down to still go down to the wall, vietnam memorial wall, section 34-e, young lieutenant kellogg was in the fight for his life. we won the fight, but lost 1/3 of my reconnaissance platoon. i go down there and talk to them. did we get it right, am i keeping the faith with you that we lost? americans need to understand that the young men and women we have on the ramp parts of freedom, defending against barbarians at the gate, this memorial day, give respect to them. i tell them, look, when i went over to the amphitheater, heard the national anthem, the last