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before the u.s. defaults. not everyone is confident a deal can be reached, with at least one top republican negotiator warning a deal could come together as soon as today or fall apart entirely. what is the mood on capitol hill right now? >> reporter: good afternoon. the mood is more optimistic than we've heard in days. negotiators here this morning are saying they think they're closing in on a deal and really it's all about having an agreement on the agreement and hashing out the remaining sticking points, which we're told are on work requirements and spending caps. we heard speaker...

hello, everyone. thanks for joining me this saturday. i'm fredricka whitfield. >> we begin this hour in washington where right now negotiators are back at the table as they race to end the debt ceiling standoff. republican leaders and white house officials are returning a short time ago, after a marathon session lasted well into the night, the clock is ticking, to get a deal in place, before the u.s. defaults on its loans. the national deficit continues to soar. with no rise to the borrowing limit, the u.s. will default on its loans which could be catastrophic to the economy. the tre...

>> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. ukraine's president will be appealing for more international aid this week when the ukraine recovery conference gets under way in lugano, switzerland. on saturday he urged his fellow ukrainians to stay optimistic. here he is. >> translator: no matter how difficult it is for us today, we must remember that there will be tomorrow. and tomorrow should bring maximum benefit to ukraine. everyone should do absolutely everything possible for this. >> relentless rampage in ukraine is now most heavily focused on the key cit...

service are backing up the bombshell testimony from a former trump white house aide that an irate president trump demanded to go to the capitol on january 6th. since cassidy hutchinson went under oath, there has been an ongoing campaign by trump and his allies to discredit her testimony about what she saw and heard on january 6th. cnn has now spoken with two secret service employees who both say they also heard about a confrontation inside the presidential suv that day, a story they say spread widely around the agency in the weeks and months that followed january 6th. they say trump ...

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