Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington, a very late Saturday Night on Memorial Day Weekend but were here for good reason. Were here in a crucial moment on debt ceiling talks. Multiple sources tell cnn that the white house and House Republican leaders have reach an agreement in principle, we should note in principle on raising the nations debt ceiling. Just ten minutes from now House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy will address reporters were told, and then at the bottom of the hour Republican Leaders will brief their fellow colleagues in the gop conference on the outlines of this deal. The briefing comes after a phone call earlier this evening between mccarthy and President Biden, and cnns Priscilla Alvarez is at the white house for us. Priscilla and manu raju still with us up on capitol hill. Late night, guys. Priscilla, what can you tell us . Reporter jim, im hearing from a source close to negotiations yes House Speaker mccarthy have a
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, a very late saturday night on memorial day weekend but we re here for good reason. we re here in a crucial moment on debt ceiling talks. multiple sources tell cnn that the white house and house republican leaders have reach an agreement in principle, we should note in principle on raising the nation s debt ceiling. just ten minutes from now house speaker kevin mccarthy will address reporters we re told, and then at the bottom of the hour republican leaders will brief their fellow colleagues in the gop conference on the outlines of this deal. the briefing comes after a phone call earlier this evening between mccarthy and president biden, and cnn s priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. priscilla and manu raju still with us up on capitol hill. late night, guys. priscilla, what can you tell us? reporter: jim, i m hearing from a source close to negotiations yes ho
david is saying here? there are some details here that the white house can point to and say, okay, house democrats we didn t cave on as much as you feared we would. there s some stuff in here you might like. can you walk us through some of the details you re getting? reporter: right. sources familiar with these negotiations have been underscoring that the president was trying to stay firm on his positions, but, of course, what we re trying to learn more about in the details that will come because of course the debl s always in the details is what the concessions were for the republicans and the white house. what you heard there one of the big ones here is two-year deal and two-year limit increase. what the democrats are going to be honing in on are those work requirements. on that front what i m learning is the agreement at least when it comes to snap phases in subsets snap time limits to people ages up to 54.
quoted shage overa.it s a joke. tucker: i remember speaking to a new york city cop, retired saying that the mansion was full of marijuana smokewhen the debl. do you think that s maybe part of it? seth: look, i ve heard this, too.ha it s kind of a common theme around city hall and around the press and so forth. whether it s true or not, i don t know, but it certainly would explain a lot. it would explain a lot. it would explain a lot. and here, we just thought it was laziness, and a slow metabolismr is really bad because he is really high. t seth: he may not be the worst mayor in new york history. [laughter] nice to see you. thanks, tucker.
obama. is that right? i ve said the fbi and the department of justice have no information to support those tweets. but there is evidence, is there not, of a break-in of the debl democratic headquarters by a foreign power using cybermeans? yes, there was. and there was an effort to cover up the break-in of the democratic party headquarters by using cutouts like wikileaks to publish the stolen material. isn t that right? certainly to cover-up that they were the ones releasing it. joining me now is john dean, former white house counsel to richard nixon. i was thinking about what you made of today s hearings because i was incapable of finding any kind of precedent or any point of comparison even historically for what we saw. what was your reaction to it? well, my reaction to the hearing itself was that it s very early, they re just starting to unravel what has happened. we re just learning the basic