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you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. in washington, the clock is ticking and the push is on. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are racing to sell a tentative debt ceiling agreement to their respective parties. minutes ago, the president confirmed that he spoke with mccarthy by phone. they finalized the last of the details and said the deal now moves to the full congress for its approval. if they reject it or can t iron out their differences before june 5th, the u.s. could default on its debt, a scenario many experts say would be disastrous. not just for the u.s. economy, but for the global economy as well. and that threat still looms ominously over the capitol at this hour. up on capitol hill, lawmakers from both parties have their reservations. so passage is not guaranteed and all of this is unfolding as that fiscal deadline gets ever closer. cnn s priscilla alvarez is over at the why for us. eva mcken is live on set. let s b ....
[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] rachel: good morning. it is 6:00 a.m. :00 am in new york city and you were just listening to the navy band ceremonial band performing the national anthem. this memorial day weekend, send us your photos and stories of servicemembers who died while serving. you can e-mail email those, [email protected]. joey is in for pete this morning. joey:he lets the sitting his place on the couch and i said what side do you sit on? i couldn t remember so i stood here and waited to for will to get up. i m happy to be here. rachel: glad to have you especially this weekend. joe: great weekend to be here and give pete the weekend a. rachel: president biden baltzer camp david even though congress has not reached a deal on the debt ceiling. will: janet yellen pushes back the default deadline by two days. joe: alexandria hoff is live in washington dc. reporter: a major fiction point for stronger work requirements in certain kinds ....
the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if you re just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11 d commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front-runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left, so this is a different guy than 2015/2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded in the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and really turning over the reins to dr. fauci. under the trump administration, he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this, and, yes, listen ....
introspection. n express our thoughts and feelings and wait for the response. there is no response on memorial day. those we honor our dead. which leads us to supplying both sides of the conversation. i spent some time studying the deadliest battles in our history. the battles which require the most sacrifice. i wondered what it was like to be a teenager sent to europe during world war i. probably never crossed an ocean before. for many the only cross the ocean once. buried somewhere in france or belgium or england and we sent them to liberate a continent. to liberate other people and they did what they asked them to do. it cost them their lives. world war ii was a deadly war both in europe and the pacific. our young people were sent to defeat an evil access to liberate a continent to defend people being victimized by tyrants. we sent young people to defend our own country after we were attacked pearl harbor. some of those holders are buried on the amount of fields wher ....
president biden is making the case for congress to pass the debt ceiling accord. no either side liking the bill, there is thunderous bipartisan criticism about the bill, that is why law lawmakers from both sides are nervous. one g.o.p. member told fox, a vote against the bill would be a vote to under cut mccarthy. there is a 72 hour clock for members to reveal the bill. trey. trey: if i could ask you one question, some of the names of the folks that have been most critical over the last 12 to 24 hours are some of the same names that didn t vote for kevin mccarthy the first time for speaker, or else were slow to do so, is there any danger or threat this will lead to a motion to v vacate the chair. reporter: kevin mccarthy was asked that and said there is no fear there, keep in mind it only takes one member to do that a lot of people i talked to said they don t believe there will be anything like that. speaker will lose 25 members on his side, you need democrats to make ....