desantis is finally in the race for president but not without a hitch right out of the starting gate. the governor s unusual choice to announce in an audio interview with elon musk on twitter, it was plagued by glitches and started 25 minutes late. desantis on fox later making light of the technical difficulties and laying out his vision for leading the country in a different direction. i m running to lead a great american comeback. we know the country is on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes. we feel it in our bones. we see the border being overrun, we see crime infesting the cities. what i will do is help restore normalcy to our communities, integrity to our institutions and sanity to our society. jessica dean is in miami with more on desantis big unveiling. r do you go with the crowd or do you look at the data yourself and cut against the grain? and i chose to do the latter. reporter: florida governor desantis attempt to declare candidacy for president in
him hit the campaign trail early and aggressively, we re expecting to see him in the early states in the coming days where he will rally with supporters across the country. jessica dean, cnn, miami. rising anxiety over raising the debt ceiling and mixed messages out of washington this morning. senior republican sources say prospects are grim for a deal to raise the debt ceiling before possible government defaults. but listen to house speaker kevin mccarthy with this assessment for reporters wednesday afternoon. i think we made some progress working down there. so that is very positive. you said this week that you need to have a deal this week in order to avoid default. i still believe that, yeah. i still believe we have time to get it done. but credit rating agency
with less than 48 hours to resolve multiple disputes. patience wearing thin among democrats who want moderate hold outs kirsten sinema and joe manchin. hardly anyone knows where either of them stands. so far neither is saying much. what needs to be done, i keep telling y all, we re going to work and work in good faith. so, why did these two senators matter? why do they always get all the attention? well, four big issues have to be solved in the next 48 hours. hard infrastructure, that s roads and bridges. human infrastructure, that s expanding the social safety net. funding so that the government doesn t shutdown and and lifting the debt ceiling to avoid a government defaults. it is unclear how much to raise the debt ceiling without knowing how much the government is spending. so it all leaves democrats struggling to find a path forward in all four issues. american families frankly in
breaking overnight, a big change, house speaker nancy pelosi said president biden s hard infrastructure bill needs to get passed separately from the democrat-only human infrastructure bill. that is a huge shift from the speaker after saying for months that she wanted both of them passed at the same time. in the senate republicans blocked a bill to avoid a government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. treasury secretary janet yellen just sounded the alarm a couple minutes ago saying we have only 20 days, 20 days, until our government defaults. i want to go straight to sahil kapur on capitol hill also with us john bres in a hand. now that speaker pelosi has changed her mind on infrastructure where do we go from here? a major reversal from speaker pelosi delinking that infrastructure bill from that social safety net bill, a