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you, from nbc news here in miami, welcome everyone to alex reid reports. we begin with breaking news, this just in an update from capitol hill, where negotiators from the white house and house republicans are working through the holiday weekend, inching closer to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. it comes as after a news of some new breathing room, as the treasury secretary now says the deadline for default is june 5th. moments ago, house speaker kevin mccarthy, giving an update. but. i feel closer to an agreement now than i did before, because i see progress. so this is not easy initiating for me. that does not matter. at one pmi, i will talk with democratic congressman jasmine crockett about the negotiations, as well as renewed calls for police reform after an 11 year old boy is shot by an officer. more breaking news for you, in two hours, the texas house begins debating whether to impeach the states republican attorney general, ken paxton after a republican ....
saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america s bills. is everyone on board? reporter: we ll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he s feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they re focused on a few remaining sticking points for this deal. i am told the goal is to have a deal announced by the end of today. we ll see if they can get there. we have new reporting about what the outstanding issues are. one of them is a provision to impose new work requirements on some social safety net programs. i m told they made some progress on that in negotiations last night. we re going to see today ....
before the u.s. defaults. not everyone is confident a deal can be reached, with at least one top republican negotiator warning a deal could come together as soon as today or fall apart entirely. what is the mood on capitol hill right now? reporter: good afternoon. the mood is more optimistic than we ve heard in days. negotiators here this morning are saying they think they re closing in on a deal and really it s all about having an agreement on the agreement and hashing out the remaining sticking points, which we re told are on work requirements and spending caps. we heard speaker mccarthy came to the capitol shortly before 10:30 a.m. this morning. he says he feels more confident than he has and they ve made progress, but some sticking points remain. i asked him if he thinks he would be able to get his full conference behind whatever deal they re able to strike, and he said he does think that will happen. he also said he thinks a deal could potentially come together a ....
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us this sunday. happening right now, more anti-immigration rhetoric from former president donald trump causing reverberation, the white house calling the comments fascist after the former president said this in new hampshire saturday. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve done. they ve poisoned mem institutions and not just? south america or three or four countries, but all over the world they re coming in from africa, from asia, all over the world pouring into our country. cnn s priscilla alvarez is in washington. this is a strong rebuke from the white house. what will is it appeared the president saying? reporter: that s right, fred. the white house saying it s similar to other authoritarian regimes, but the white house slamming the former president for his comments on immigration yesterday. in a statement this morning, a white house spokesperson saying echoing the grotesque rhetoric, ....
the town hall with the gop frontrunner and the reaction from the republican rivals and the impact now on the republican primary. what voter ss in the gop and fa beyond learned from donald trump last night. and preparing for a surge of migrants hours before a covid policy ends tonight. more from border. and now, twist on a murder case. joran van der sloot is being extradited to the united states. all of this now on cnn news central. the end of title 42 ends just before midnight which is going to allow the border officials to send migrants back across the border. it is what the border patrol has been waiting after they have been apprehending migrants each day. the border patrol says they are waiting to go to dallas, houston, new york and miami, and nick valencia is in brownsville, texas, for us this morning. what are you seeing for us on the streets. sara, it is a lot. a lot to be surrounded by this hopelessness, and these migrants who have been crossing seemingly ....