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it is saturday, may 27th, i'm amara walker. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to have you. you're in the cnn newsroom. we begin with debt ceiling negotiations getting down to the wire, as the white house and gop lawmakers are racing against the clock to try to prevent a first-ever u.s. default. >> congress now has fewer than nine days to pass a deal after treasury secretary janet yellen warned yesterday that the country could hit the debt ceiling by june 5th. sources say negotiators are hoping to announce an agreement as soon as today. >> but major sticking points remain. on everything f...

the u.s. treasury pushes back the possible default deadline from june 1st to june 5th, giving debt limit negotiators to reach an agreement. the house minority leader, hakeem jeffries, joins me in just a moment r for an exclusive interview. in ukraine, at least two people are dead and 30 injured after a russian attack on a medical clinic, ukraine claims was deliberate. we'll have a live report from the war zone. and as americans prepare to set out for the memorial day weekend, cnn is at the airport and on the highways with everything you need to know about one of the busiest trave...

-- florida governor ron desantis announcing his 2024 white house bid tonight on twitter, in a conversation with twitter owner elaine musk. but they did have some technical glitches and crashes the forehand and sara fischer is covering this story for us. sara fischer, i joke before in the last hour that elon musk has had easier rocket launches than this launch of governor desantis's presidential announcement. what went wrong, what happened, to derail this? >> i think you had huge volume. they have had twitter spaces before, alisyn, that had a lot of listeners. the one that he did with...

[laughter] it's the way of the world, kids. [laughter] >> tom hanks also received a hearted branded volleyball, in reference to his 2000 movie castaway. >> congratulations. considering all that context he just gave -- >> its honorary. cnn this morning continues right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it is a wonderful saturday morning. i am glad you are part of it. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i'm victor blackwood. >> what do you do with an honorary degree, though? if you have a ph.d. or a doctorate in arts, can you actually go and be a professor? >> some people go around and demand ...

st the far enough away that between here and washington, d.c. they stop to refuel in alaska. and so it's going to be a while until he gets back with home. a big part of the reason they came to hiroshima, the leader of the world's seven is largest economies, is to figure out what to do about a rising china, especially in this region. and the president got a question about chinese military actions, particularly the lack of contact there has been between general lloyd austin and his counterpart now that a hotline has been down, and the president had a fascinating answer where he explain...