politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. in just hours, a meeting with crippling consequences if it leads to nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house to talk through a debt deal, but democrats already worrying prooid sounds close to caving. plus a picture of fear. new and disturbing video shows a baseball bat-wheeleding attacker. beating two staffers at a congressional office. and ron desantis nears a 2024 launch. he will enter the rain rays with infrastructure and big money, but also with deflated expectation was a months of fierce donald trump attacks. up first for us, time to get serious. debt talks are going nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house at 3:00 p.m. it s clear the principles enter the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome
function. maintaining the currency a federal function. there are functions like education, but we need to start with block grants and start giving the states more and more authority and start reducing the all the that we spend in that area. it s not something that just as the default would be cattle strosk, so would taking all this money away from the states on day one. it s something that s going to take a period of time. i think paul ryan s budget proposal when the commercials were out when he was throwing a grandma off the cliff in a wheelchair, that was over 30 years. and so that s the kind of timeframe that we have to take into account if we re going to get back to a balanced budget. so that point, the speaker has four votes to spare within the republican family. you all met this morning. everybody talked on air during the vote. he barely got elected speaker. how long of a leash does he have? the democrats are counting on him to blink at some point to say, i can t take the count
410,000 customers in west virginia didn t have power as of last night. ohio, 400,000 folks in ohio without. 340,000 in virginia, same deal there. power authorities and local governments say many of those people might be in the dark until this weekend. those people are going to have to deal with more soaring temperatures, 12 states under heat advisories this morning and the heat wave is forecast to last all week long. sandra endo is live in arlington, virginia, looks a bit of a mess behind you there. do people there have electricity? i m guessing not. reporter: not in this neighborhood, brook, it s been four days since the violent storm swept through this region. you can still see the devastation left behind. the power lines have downed because these toppled trees ripped the power lines from the tell phone poles and crushing car and struing debris about. this violent storm swept through this neighborhood. this area is without power as are tens of thousands of people sufferin
reporter: good morning, soledad, negotiations under way in the parliament building behind me here in athens to try to forge some type of coalition. the party that won the election yesterday, new democracy led by samaras, didn t get an absolute majority, only got 129 seats and needs 151 in the parliament to have a majority. so negotiations are continuing. he s got three days to try to bring together some of the other parties as well into a coalition. it s going to get greece out of this political and economic stalemate. the big point from the u.s. point of view and global point of view, samaras, the new democracy, supports the aus t austerity measured imposed on greece and not going to turn its back on its financial commitments and will for the most continue in the european single currency. big sigh of relief because of that. very big deadlines looming. matthew, thank you very much. still ahead, i ll talk to ken rogoff, the former head of the international monetary fund.
on cnn. good monday morning to you, everyone. it s good to have you with us, welcome to early start. i m ashley banfield. we re bringing you the news from a to z. big developments in greece that are sure to have a ripple effect. winning yesterday s parliamentary election in a vote seen by many as an endorsement for the survival of the euro. i will make sure that the sacrifices of the greek people will bring the country back to prosperity. so now it s up to samaras to form a coalition government to quickly keep greece afloat. something that other euro nations are hopes that we can do. christine romans is monitoring markets. as we started, we said, ah, good news here. features have turned lower. and i saw this described as a stay of execution for greece. others have called it the status quo. what is the status quo? relying on other monies from other countries to stay afloat, to basically not go broke and it still has an awful lot of work to do here. but voters dec