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so they have a deal, but do they have the votes? right now the race to get party holdouts onboard with the debt ceiling agreement, that potentially catastrophic default just days away. we'll have the latest. plus, what caused part of an apartment building to collapse? rescue dogs are now scanning for any sign of survivors in davenport, iowa, as the city's fire chief says the building is structurally up snsound posing threat to his teams. we'll follow those and more stories coming in right here to cnn news central. so some good news over the weekend. president biden and speaker mc...

After the outspoken leader of his republican opponent, matt gaetz, officially filed his motion to oust the party speaker, for partners with democrats to keep the government open. Why not . I think matt has planned this all along. It didnt matter what we transpired. He would have done it if we were in shutdown or not. Will Democratic House members vote with mccarthy to save his job . Let republicans deal with their own problems. They can let them wallow in the pigsty of incompetence. We will talk to two House Republicans all coming up. Here in new york, former President Donald Trump is back in ...

Possibility mccarthy and biden didn't get to agreement. they have over the weekend. so can both of them get the votes necessary to get this over the top. what are democrats telling you and republicans telling you about their head counting? >> reporter: well, kevin mccarthy has argued that he is going to have the votes, that he believes that he might even have a majority of his conference supporting this package. he is going to lose some members in his right flank, that is absolutely clear. a number of them already coming out against this bill. but the reality is this was always going to be a c...

That there could be jurors in a senate trial and they don't want to prejudice themselves now by saying so. certainly some republican senators are come out and made it clear that they think this is indeed a witch-hunt, to borrow the president's phrase, that they think the whole matter say sham and they believe they would not cast a vote to remove the president. others are being more cagey and center mitt romneys and fewer republicans are very unwilling to be outspoken against the president. they're not committing to removing but certainly those in the white house who -- they're tallying voters ...

To do that. there has been one case in the past when he hasn't asked the leader of the biggest party with the greatest number of seats in the knesset. what he'll do is spend a week canvassing opinion from all the different leaders and parties in the 120-seat knesset and appoint someone he thinks is most likely to succeed in knitting together a coalition to have a crack at it. they'll have six weeks to do that. >> lots of head counting to come. sam kiley on the ground in jerusalem, thanks. former president jimmy carter saying there should be an age limit for u.s. presidents saying he could no...