christine romans. it s memorial day here in the u.s. glad you re with us. let s get going. we begin this morning with president biden defending the deal he made with house speaker kevin mccarthy to raise the debt limit for two years. it takes the threat of catastrophic reform off the table. protects our hard-earned economic recovery. and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. mccarthy agreed to raise the debt limit in explain for cuts to the budget. even though, the president insisted to reporters he wasn t actually negotiating on the dead limit. want to try to make it look like i made some grow myself in the debt ceiling, i didn t. i made a compro 3450is on the budget. that s what they wanted a compromise on the budget, that s what you ve done, even though you haven t gone as far as you wants, in that right? sure, can you think of an alternative? the president praised mccarthy, although he avoided predicting whethe
stephanie ruhle. speaker kevin mccarthy may hav won the battle to pass raising the debt limit, but now he i on a collision course with the urged president biden to make deal to give the u.s. from default, and economic disaster now the president can n longer put this economy in jeopardy, we - we have sent it to the senate. the majority of american overwhelmingly want us to si down and negotiate it is up to them now this afternoon, biden again insisted negotiations were out of the question. i m happy to meet with, mccarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit get extended that is not negotiable the clock is ticking, washington has until early jun to act mccarthy s bill now heads to the senate, but according to senate majority leader chuck schumer, the thing is dead o arrival. we are also following the civi rape trial involving forme president donald trump today e. jean carroll wh accused trump of sexual assaul gave explosive testimony i federal court. and we see t
$8 million to create their own rival version of the college boards ap courses. so much for going along to get along. that is our show for tonight we will see you again tomorrow now it is time for the las word with ali bell she, who is in for lawrence. good evening, ali. it is good to see you, than you. we will see you tomorrow night we ll do. let s finish the job. today, joe biden and the speculation, yes, he s running for reelection for the same reasons he ra against on trump in 2020 because republican extremist are still threatening american democracy. - to fight for our democracy it shouldn t be a - to protect our rights. to make sure that everyone i this country is treated equall in that everyone is given fair shot at making it but you know, around th country, maga extremists are lining up to take away those bedrock freedoms, cuttin social security that you pager in for entire life walt cuttin taxes connect banning of books and telling people who they ca l
tomorrow good to have you here. so, if you got in your car, an you drove out of oklahoma city you drove southeast, out o oklahoma city, about fou hours. before you left oklahoma state limits, before you crossed the border, the last placed yo would hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma it s right in the farthest south corner of the great stat of oklahoma, it border arkansas to the east, and texa to the south and in mccurtain county, i that part of oklahoma. the local newspaper is calle the mccurtain gazette news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper, doesn t have a website if you want to read th mccurtain gazette news reporting, it s like the googl days you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep, an then you can see what they hav reported on. like all good local news outlets, online or in print, o both the staff at the mccurtain gazette news, make it thei business to make sure they are did legitimately covering th local govern
afternoon to you i m yasmin vossoughian we got extreme weather coast t coast. hard hit california taking i on the chin again. with millions at flood risk. we are on the ground there the biggest bank collapse sinc the 2008 recession sake shakin up silicon valley. and new reporting on wha appears to be the and stage of new york s crimina investigation of the forme president. the da s invitation for donald trump to testify it is highly unlikely that h will show up, but his former fixer is going to be there o monday i have to applaud distric attorney brad for giving donal the opportunity to come to tel the story. now knowing donald as well as do, i understand that he doesn t tell the truth it s one thing to turn aroun and to lie on your untruth social, it s another thing t turn around and lie before the grand jury i don t suspect that he is going to be coming all this is happening a trump s nemesis ron desantis hits i while continuing to tes the presidential waters an taking