hey, hey, everybody. it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. the battle for the white house will welcome a long-awaited newcomer today, ron desantis, after months of speculation and campaign style events, the florida governor will make it official tonight on twitter with none other than elon musk. will the unusual rollout help or hurt the soon to be candidate? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. and then what about the other elephant in the room, donald trump, the former president already telling desantis to get a, quote, personality trait as he puts it. plus, south carolina, set to become the latest state to ban abortion after six weeks making it virtually impossible to get an abortion across a huge portion of the south. and later on, new details on the 19-year-old who drove a u-haul truck into a white house barrier. more on his interviews with police as he s set to make a court
in the faulkner focus. americans face real economic consequences as politicians are dug in. more and more lawmakers are saying that the president and the house speaker must find common ground but the house the white house sounds like it is not really interested in doing that. this is not an issue that we will negotiate on. he is not going to negotiate over avoiding default. this is congress s constitutional duty. he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. very clear. that isn t going the change. congress needs to avoid a default. i ll leave it there without conditions. harris: without conditions. that sounded like a negotiation. for their part, house democrats are now trying to use a procedural scheme to bypass speaker mccarthy s debt bill. republican senator mike lee and senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill. let s start with the news with chad. it is called a discharge petition, 218 members can go over the head of the speaker and put a bi
republican compromise. they re pointing out that one of the chief assets the president put on the table, increasing revenue as well as cutting spending, that s a sure fire way to cut debt and deficits. they re saying specially that speaker mccarthy is at the whims of his most extreme right members of his caucus who say the republicans have already passed a bill. that s the red line, we re not willing to go beyond that, and trying to force negotiations forward a little bit. a concerning sign there are no negotiation at least as far as the principles are concerned and we re starting to see an increasing war of words on the sides. that is a heck of a lot of budget talk, appreciate that. 10:00 a.m. here in the morning in the east. congressman let s talk about what we re hearing when it comes to some of the budget talk mike memoli walked us through, and treasury secretary yellen speaking out a couple of minutes ago. i want to play for you some of what she had to say, and then we ll chat.
gang s assertion that it will go along with spending restraints in a separate budget talk. republican senator mike lee of utah is hear. ranking member of the joint economic committee serving on the budget, judiciary and energy committees. great to see you today. first of all, let s talk about this. do you trust the white house on the back end of the deal in a separate talk to talk about cutting spending? no, no, not at all. this is a way the white house has of saying heads we win, tails you lose. we won t fall for that. there is no chance that will work. we re using the same strategy, the same discussion, the same wisdom that joe biden himself embodied and expressed in 1984 talking about the need when approaching a debt ceiling increase to deal with actual spending problem. we need to do it now in connection with the debt ceiling bill. by suggesting that we ignore
as well. we also want to keep our eyes on iran, of course, russia and china with developments. certainly with the olympics, we want to keep our eyes on north korea as well and make sure we re protecting our athletes. dana: we appreciate you being on today. thank you very much, dana. dana: we are waiting the white house briefing where we expect to take questions about the budget talk and the allegations against secretary rob porter, among other things. plus an fbi informant said russia shelled out a lot of cash to a lobbying firm in the u.s. to influence the clintons in more ways than one. the latest on the uranium one controversy next. they were going to do some kind of lobbying on some issues, but they were also expected to do a lot of in kind work for the clinton foundation.