talks and he is confident they will come to a bitart san agreement before it is too late. todd: alexandria hoff live in washington. alexandria: president biden did receive a briefing this morning, the president s team informed him steady progress is being made and the president directed his team to keep pushing forward for bipartisan agreement. on wednesday, they introduced procedural resolution that would allow members to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling. president biden is in japan. hakeem jeffries wrote to colleagues, given the impending june 1 deadline, it is important all legislative options be pursued in the event no agreement is reached. for a forced vote to be successful, all democrats, plus five republicans would have to join the effort. here is house speaker kevin mccarthy. i do not think it is going anywhere, for one, it seems that would be playing into a biden default. i think america public is tired of those political games. freedom caucus members u
malveaux. the u.s. says opening korean markets to american automakers and farmers will create 280,000 jobs. more next hour when president obama and lee hold a news conference at the white house and you ll see it live here on cn this. in libya today, the battle for sirte has come down to a few streets. [ gunfire ] sirte is among the last towns to keep fighting for muammar gadhafi, the former libyan ruler. it s his tribal home and fiercely loyal. it will declare them liberated once it declares all of sirte. our dan rivers is there. reporter: like the troops we re with, we try to stay out of the line of fire. sometimes the bullets come out of nowhere. comfortably close, even battle hardened soldiers flinch sometimes. libyan fighters claim they have captured one of gadhafi s sons in sirte. that has not been confirmed. such reports have been wrong in the past. and freed american hikers shane bower and josh fattal will meet with secretary of state hillary clinton this a