going to do by tomorrow. speaker mccarthy, live on fox news. quickly, a quick question, how do you feel about ok, so he he would not take questions, he said he was in a hurry, had to get to the floor to open it, he s on the way to the floor and we ll listen to his remarks. sandra: all business. john: it s noted. almost reached in, but john: he s got the capitol police around him, be careful how far you reach in. exactly, exactly. sandra: thank you, aishah, appreciate that. and off he goes. a live look here at the other direction, as john, we anticipated, this would be a quickly moving couple of hours, we hope to know more soon. john: yeah, and again, when you take a look at the votes, if you lose 40, don t forget, it s a bipartisan bill and hakeem jeffries is doing everything he can to sell this to his caucus, kevin mccarthy has promised at least 150 votes, looks like he s north of 180, if you only have 35 defections, i don t know how many are there toda
day weekend. something we have not seen since before the pandemic. i am talking away before. try 2005. what is it say about you the consumer in 2023? the rush is on in washington. that negotiator scrimmages strike a deal this weekend. to avoid a default it s now expected to hit around june 5 that is four days later than they originally told us. no matter can we forge a deal right here we will ask houston freedom caucus scott perry. blue dog democrat both are here and only here. the rush is on for the 2024 campaign cash a lot of cash at that. soft on senator tim scott is more than 21 million bucks worth. he tells us i plan to leap ahead of the gorgon gop packed with all vapid former donald trump maga donor who now says ron desantis is his man and points out eight-point to million dollars that florida governor has raised over his first 24 hours since making that announcement proves he is a hit. even the twitter launch maybe not so much of a hit print welcome everyone i am neil
there s now a little optimism on a debt ceiling deal following yesterday s meeting at it white house even though president biden is cutting short an overseas trip. we ll have the latest on those negotiations. and also ahead ron desantis goes after donald trump on the issue of abortion. we ll look at how it could impact the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. moving in today with the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, president biden met with congressional leaders at the white house yesterday, and while both sides say that some progress has been made, no deal has yet been reached. both biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy named top negotiators to take part in talks and continue daily. and while democrats continue to insist that they will not negotiate over the debt ceiling, they are reportedly in talks about spending cuts working on a parallel track. the
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but no agreement was reached. here s what the leaders of both sides had to say following that high stakes meeting. we agreed to continue our discussions and we will meet again on friday. in the meantime, our staff will meet today and daily between now and then, and everyone in the meeting understood the risk of default. our economy would fall into a significant recession and it would devastate retirement accounts, increase borrowing costs, according to moody s nearly 8 million americans would lose theirjobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated the positions they were at. i did not see new movement. the president said staff would get back together, i was clear to the president. we have two weeks ago. president biden also said that it was possible he might call off his trip to asia if there is no breakthrough on the debt. ryan sweet is the chief us economist at oxford economics i spoke to him a little earlier and he says he s not surprised no deal was reached. this is going t