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♪ you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound lik...

Hostage-taking ability of one side or the other. in this case the republicans are always the ones that are repeatedly willing to do that and hold a gun to the head of the nation's economy. i do think we should take that off the table. i heard the president say it wouldn't be responsible and i thought he meant it wouldn't be responsible to eliminate the debt ceiling. i'm not sure -- i was cn't clea what he was saying. he wasn't wanting to go through the 14th amendment for the potential of judicial challenges and perhaps he would visit that down the road. >> at the end of the day we have to pay ...