white house bid official, and the challenge now is to take on trump without making the base turn against him. these stories ahead on cnn news central. so, this just in. we got word that negotiators are meeting right now. this is ahead of the crucial meeting this afternoon between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. june 1st is now 10 days away, and this is the day that treasury secretary janet yellen says is a hard deadline that is ahead of the economic disaster that going to affect millions of americans like medicare and medicaid benefits and military salaries and other benefits at real risk. and now, many at capitol hill hounding their representatives, and that is the last we heard from house speaker kevin mccarthy. look, there is no agreement on anything. we have all said the peace on where we r and we are trying to find common ground to get this done. so right to manu raja on capitol hill. i understand that the staff level negotiators and members are
matter of months. they have matter of days. so for months they had a negotiation to have taushgs because they wanted the republicans to raise the debt ceiling without any conditions, and now the republicans want a slew of conditions, and now the talks of what those conditions are. over the weekend, back and forth posturing and blame game trading, but after mccarthy and biden spoke last night, the temperature dialed down a little bit, and the negotiators said that the talks are more productive, but still a whole lot more left to do here between the president and the speaker. john? so talks, yes, moving, not sure yet. we go to arlette seanez, what is your view of where we are standing? well, with the house speaker