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Local leaders, businesses and organizations gathered Wednesday for the "State of the City."

Trying to ask if there would be a deal by the end of the week. the president ignored that question. we asked negotiators if they think a deal can come together by the end of the week, they say theyre still actively in these conversations and that would be tough. we know that everyone is going out of town this weekend with the caveat they can be called back at any moment. when you think of the way that mccarthy is trying to balance all of the designs within his conference on this, i spoke with co...

With embattled congressman george santos. democrats were hoping to force a floor vote on a resolution that wouldve expelled george santos, in an effort to put every single republican on the record here. but speaker kevin mccarthy came up with an off ramp to help shield has members from taking a potentially tough vote. so, instead of voting on the resolution itself, the house voted on wednesday along party lines twos instead refer the resolution to the house ethics committee. seven democrats did ...

That he was going to prosecute obama era officials. this was a frustration because they did not understand why they did not shut down that rhetoric even though they knew all along that was not going to happen, that evidence wasnt there. so theres still mysteries about john durham and a lot of questions about his conduct, but he was forced into a corner where this was the result both to his reputation and information he brought to the public today. >> ill give you the last word. he painted himsel...

Than those moments. the reason is because there doesnt seem to be, at this point, a very clear off ramp for house republicans especially to be able to go back to themselves and say, hey, we do this. we got a win here. and with how slim the majority it is for mccarthy to play with here, he doesnt have a lot of room to negotiate. that is one scary thing. more importantly, they feel like house republicans are more likely to say, whatever, we dont care. we will allow the country to default because w...

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Wall street, on main street, and just about everywhere in between. jeremy diamond is at the white house for us. the administration really seems to be throwing some cold water on the idea well be seeing progress today. >> reporter: brianna, theyre setting expectations very low for the potential for any kind of substantive progress to come out of this meeting. white house officials tell me heading into this meeting that president biden is determined to hold the line on his view that a clean debt c...

This is a problem, isnt it? telling me something. but thats the issue. constantly people trying to figure out what the off ramps r the administration is clear. the off ramp is congressional action. there is no other off ramp. yet, there are discussions behind the scenes. what other alternatives? could you mint a trillion dollar coin? that is on finance twitter forever. or could you say because the constitution says explicitly, they have to pat debts. the debt ceiling, the law itself, the statute...

Through pretty clearly. look, maybe this is just posturing. we dont have a lot of time left for posturing. we might have a little time left for posturing. but if they can get this out of their position, tomorrow, we need to, not necessarily a deal, but we need some type of agreement where we keep talking and we have to get together and work something out. because were just going through partisan warfare right now. thats fine, people will score political points but theres not an easy off-ramp, ev...

Im sure the leaders will go to the mics at the white house or on capitol hill and say the exact same thing that they were saying before, saying previously ahead of the meeting and it -- i do feel like it will be sometime before actual work is done to stave off that june 1st deadline. >> what does that really look like? if this is just the peacocking part of it all, then at what point are we going to be talking about actual talks? >> are you saying that because were only three weeks away? >> i ma...