because the progress happens in small steps, what it s happening. in palpable ways. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, they address from the white house, i thought what was interesting about it was it s quiet, normalcy. the idea that there are as a lack of superlatives, there s punditry all over the place. twitter is not, i mean it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states given important address and it s okay. and it said nice things about republicans, and nobody said their hair on fire. you pointed out that even in the obama days, it would ve been hard pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. and that s what joe biden did tonight. it was the normalcy that the part of amazing me today. it was paid by the, and welcoming refreshing change for a lot of people. yes, have a good night, see you next week. you two ali! think about this, do you remember where you are the first time you heard about
about little changes, not that little, that do happen. they are smart but they all meaningful. they re meaningful. i think that s why you see a lot of tension in this country. because the progress happens in small steps, but it s happening. in palpable ways. it s happening. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, the address from the white house. i thought what was interesting about it was the quiet normalcy. the idea that the lack of superlatives, there isn t punditry all over the place. twitter is not it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states gives an important address. first of all. and it s okay. and said nice things about republicans and nobody set their hair on fire. that s the way it has to work. you pointed out, even in the obama days, it would ve been hard-pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. yes. that s what joe biden did tonight. the normalcy was the part that amazed me
ultimately, chuck schumer decides how and which amendments will get a vote and debate and a vote, and i think he will be for us to go through that process because there have been demands, especially from republicans who winds amendments that they are amendments that they are amendment get a vote. and it s really about screen time, it s about getting a little bit of spotlights. it this is the issue that we care about. it s not really about whether those amendments will pass. but it s really about we are going to make a point of this issue, it is pegged into a very important to vote. everyone will be watching. everyone will be listening. so that some of the process. after all of that has wrapped, then you will move to the full senate for a vote. [30 the full senate for a vote. do ou the full senate for a vote. do you think the full senate for a vote. do you think anyone could hold up the vote in the senate? if you think anyone could hold up the vote in the senate?- the vote i
crosshairs. ssia unleashes the largest wave of drone attacks on ukraine s capital on the eve of the city s founding anniversary. what s in a name? tonight we ll focus on the struggle of some in the asian community and their efforts to take back their cultural identity. murky mystery. what s turning this part of a venice canal bright green? and later, condolence call. as the nation pauses to remember our fallen, we ll tell you how one woman helped change army protocol, bringing dignity and comfort to families. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from washington with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. after days of negotiations and late-night conversations to increase the country s $31.4 trillion debt limit, tonight there appears to be a bipartisan relief. the president and republican leadership now have a tentative agreement to head off a potential default on government loans. however, there s still many hurdles in the way as
coming out of washington, dc, at about ten minutes past the hour. we ll be monitoring that as well and we also know that republican leaders and republican leaders and republican lawmakers will be holding a call around 9:30pm eastern time, so it about 20 minutes, and there will be briefing republican lawmakers on the deal that has been agreed in principle. i believe we also have a tweet from the republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. he might be giving some more information on what could be an ideal, what we are expecting next, but again, this is something we have been tracking for many days and weeks and months in terms of what could be in this deal and whether or not lawmakers could come to an agreement about raising the debt limit here in the united states. of course we know that the deadline had been extended to june five, when know that the deadline had been extended tojune five, when the us treasury said that essentially the country would no longer be able to me