and remembering an icon. tina turner the queen of rock & roll. and we begin this very busy hour with very latest from washington where time is literally running out for negotiators to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling. there s just one week until the treasury secretary s estimated deadline to stave off what could be a devastating debt default. top credit agency has now put the country s aaa credit rating on negative watch. pointing to partisanship as hindering a solution. here is what speaker mccarthy had to say just this morning. everybody is very professional in these meetings. look, i m a total optimist. we will get this done, and we will have a better bill because of it. and joining us this morning with more is garrett haake. also with us, cnbc s dominic chu. garrett, mccarthy seems optimistic about a deal. what are you hearing from the democratic side? no, that s exactly right, jose. on the fitch part of this specifically, democrats are frustrated. t
yeah. shaq, iowa will be no doubt a major test for desantis, as well as other republican candidates. what is desantis facing in iowa? reporter: well, he s facing some perceptions that have already been set. yes, governor desantis officially announced his campaign yesterday. he filed the paperwork, released the video, but many people here have been viewing him as a candidate already. his announcement didn t surprise anyone. he s been he was here two weeks ago looking and sounding like a presidential candidate. and his component, his chief component, president donald trump has been on the air waves with attack ads against desantis. a gentleman said he plans on supporting trump because of the fact because of one of the things he heard in one of those campaign ads. there is some skepticism with ron desantis right now, especially among some republicans who sported president trump in the past. i want you to listen to one of the conversations i had that reflected that. not yet. i th
the event in baltimore. the president has yet another opportunity tonight to try to promote his domestic agenda, but the white house is still negotiating with a key senator who seems to be willing to hold up key parts of the legislation. yeah, wolf, and that is going to be the challenge for the president tonight is that he is here selling a bill that is still not finished. it s not just dealing with the components and the size and the scope of this bill, which of course we ve been talking about all week. the priorities that the president has that he s had to scale back this this bill, but now is going to be another chief component of it that you ve heard the president tout time and time again. that s how to pay for the bill. senator sinema is now still opposed to raising taxes on corporations and high earners. that has been a stance she s held for several weeks, but one we have learned has not changed. what you re seeing is a scramble among democrats as they are trying to figure out
new york and comey briefed the president-elect on the allegation he was in a hotel room in moscow with prostitutes. they relied on the dossier to an extraordinary amount. laura: every time i go back and review what happened over the last couple of years from hillary today, it s stunning. that dossier unverified, being used as the chief component in this fisa application. you are a federal district court judge. if you found out the crux of an application to you for surveillance on an american citizen was not verified and funded by the direct political opponent of the subject of the investigation, that s amazing. i would be up the wall about it. i think their claim that they told the judge by slipping a clever little foot note in about the origin, i don t think that
hillary today, it s stunning. that dossier unverified, being used as the chief component in this fisa application. you are a federal district court judge. if you found out the crux of an application to you for surveillance on an american citizen was not verified and funded by the direct political opponent of the subject of the investigation, that s amazing. i would be up the wall about it. i think their claim that they told the judge by slipping a clever little foot note in about the origin, i don t think that survives scrutiny. it seems unusual that although jim comey described that dossier as unverified, the submission he signed is mark a verified subcommission to the fisa court.