one hour from now, president biden is again going to host the top four members of congress and for potential june default date, and no closer to the deal to have catastrophic outcome, and speaker mccarthy is going to tie the debt ceiling to spending cuts and work requirements and biden is going to call for the debt creeling to be dealing with the condition, and if you are going with what the two sides are saying for the two hours, the forecast gloomy, and arlette seanez is at the white house. at some point, someone has to give up something, and can we find out what the potential concessions are today? well, brianna, in about an hour, we should get a glimpse of where the concessions are headed as the white house is going to be hosting kevin mccarthy and other congressional leader here at the white house. heading into the meeting, the expectations are low that they will come out with a concrete agreement with a default. and you heard house speaker kevin mccarthy who said toda
congress fails to act and the u.s. defaults on its debt will be bad. it s something that looks more possible by the day. the clock is ticking. speaker kevin mccarthy says he wants a deal by this weekend. that it s the only way to give both houses of congress enough time to actually mark up and pass anything on the debt ceiling. but president biden is leaving town tomorrow heading for the g-7 in japan. what punch bowl called a damned if he does, if he doesn t situation for biden with the stakes incredibly high. so with both of those things in mind, the clock and the travel, what is being said inside the white house right now? speaker mccarthy is there meeting with president biden for the third time to avoid a default. look at the background in a second. don t worry. what s on the table and what s even possible. does an acceptable compromise exist? one that actually passes not just the split congress, but this split congress. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent,
a brutal attack inside of the district office of a u.s. congressman. a man with a metal baseball bat strikes a staffer and intern on her very first day. unconfirmed reports that an american has been killed on the ukrainian battlefield. the state department is now responding. and alarming report that has lawmakers taking action. all of this on cnn news central. we begin this morning with the house reports out of ukraine that claims of a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, and the state department is saying that it is looking into this. the besieged city in eastern ukraine has been seeing heavy fighting for months now, and now the wagner paramilitary group says a body has been found with u.s. military documents. and the state department says it is seeing additional information, and needs that in order to determine what happened here. we are hearing from the ukr ukrainian military saying that it has staved off a major russian attack. but the air defenses from the western w
manchin wanted to build the gas lines and pipelines to carry the fuels, but most of the democrats want to increase the renewable energy projects. then there s new work requirements for certain government programs. the republicans want to increase the work requirements for recipients of food stamps, and medicaid, and democrats including president biden have supported tougher aid programs in the past, but biden is not likely to get on board with any medicaid restrictions that would take away any health coverage or push americans into poverty. the next issue is clawing back unspent covid-19 funding. after meeting with the republican leaders on the hill last week, president biden said that this is on the table and the question is how much of that money can be agreed on. the final major sticking point is broad spending cuts over the next decade. the republicans have offered maxing out the discretionary spending at 2022 levels for as
today. that seems like something that they should have been talking about fertile ground, months ago. if they were looking at this deadline. what has been going on until now? and do you have any indication from the white house that there are areas they are willing to compromise on? work requirements seemed like one of them but as sahil will tell us, there was a big backlash from democrats on the hill. absolutely. the president was the one who tweeted kind of leaving that door open saying he didn t want to discuss anything or consider anything that would push americans into poverty. but saying they were willing to look at the proposals republicans would bring when it comes to work requirements to be eligible for some federal benefits. so it s something where they re not saying no, absolutely not, it s off the table. in fact, it s something that s on the table, which a week ago when we were in the position talking about the meeting, we didn t know what was on the list of what they co