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we begin tonight with breaking news straight from capitol hill. we are getting word that the white house and house republicans are getting closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling. one week before the u.s. runs out of money. what do we know right now about where the deal stands between kevin mccarthy, house republicans and the white house? i think we should caveat by saying nothing has been agreed upon yet. nothing has been finalized. they are moving closer to a deal. we have seen progress over the last 12 hours, particularly on the spending issue. that s been something that has been really bedevilling the talks. they started floating the idea of a potential compromise that both sides could try to claim as essentially a win. one of the things they are discussing is raising the debt ceiling for two years, which would be longer than what house republicans had proposed in their debt ceiling plan in the house. then instituting spending caps for two years. caps on federa ....
They have not agreed on the numbers for those spending caps. one of the emerging compromises here is the idea that they would spare pentagon funding. they would spare specific domestic programs so that democrats could say, we actually didn t cut certain things. another programs would see cuts, which republicans could claim as a win. you are starting to see the contours of how a spending provision deal might come together. but i will caution that there are a number of other outstanding issues, particularly on the issue of tougher work requirements for social safety net programs. that s something both sides have been dug in on. republicans included it in their bill in the house. they are demanding it. they say it s a red line for them. you have d.emocrats need to supply votes to get this over the finish line saying they can t support something that has really any form of tougher work requirements. that s where the issue lies. there s other issues where they are starting to see more agree ....
There are hundreds of people who desperately, desperately wish they had never gone to the capitol on january 6. they don t know what they were thinking. they don t know why they let themselves get talked into this kind of thing. there is nothing that stewart rhodes on anyone like him can bring to anyone except more destruction. that s what they are in it for. that s the goal. that s all he is interested in. tasha adams, thanks for joining us. 24 hours after ron desantis entered the race, the fighting with donald trump sin teis intensifying. there are new polls that show president biden is facing headwinds of his own. one of his democratic challengers is in double digits. that s next. . hum. what s the ocean like? are there animals living underwawater? ....
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Two maybe we call them likely options will be what they want. we also have seen that movie before. we saw it in 2022. democrats performed better than most expected. we saw it in 2020. biden was not the frontrunner going in. there was more energy among the democratic base for many other candidates. a lot of pundits did not think biden had much of a chance. obviously, he pulled through. he had a certain combination of decency and empathy and the promise to restore the soul of america and all of these things people were hungering for that worked then. will it work now? i don t know. the question is, whatever his record and whatever the frustrations that real voters have with the state of the economy, which may or may not be related to actual biden policies, who is the alternative? who is the alternative in either party? ....