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york. john, hello to you. john: hello to you, sandra. i am john roberts in washington. this is america reports. president biden and speaker mccarthy are working to nail down a deal. mccarthy says that could be any day now. despite both sides struggling to find common ground. sandra: the stakes couldn t be higher. rating agency putting the country s aaa rating on negative watch now as we approach the deadline. house majority leader steve scalise takes us inside the negotiations when he joins us live next h hour. let s go to the hill. what s the mood there? hey there, we are closer and closer to a deal, probably won t happen today according to folks that are close into the meetings and negotiations. this is all about leverage. and we are seeing clearly now that democrats don t really have much of it. a progressive chair woman a mill a eye a pal wouldn t admit to tanking a supposed bad deal if presented by the white house, and that is a huge take away because we ar ....
Conversation is productive, i can let you know and some of you may already know, they met virtually at 11:30 this morning and we see this as a productive conversation and it is moving forward and hopefully in the path we would see a bipartisan reasonable bunch of negotiation. as negotiations progressed there s concerned from progressive lawmakers on what they can get. we don t negotiate with terrorists globally, why are we negotiating with the economic terrorists here, the republican party. very concerned that the president will give into republican demands for cuts. what assurances do you have for democrats across the country concerned that the white house will allow spending cuts. here s the thing. the president is fighting to protect clean energy manufacturing, fighting to protect health care, fighting to protect student debt relief and lower costs for prescription drugs and save the government money. ....
Continues to be a path forward. i am not going to get ahead of this, get ahead of the negotiation process. as i have said many times, they are productive, they continue to talk. negotiation, you need to have a conversation. that s continuing. that s an important step forward that we are seeing. we have reporting showing both sides are close to a deal. i m not getting into details from here. a quick one on russia. russia moved ahead with a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in belarus. do you have a comment on that? we have seen the reports of the russia belarus arrangement. i will continue to monitor certainly the implications. we haven t seen reason to adjust our own nuclear p posture, you heard us say that before, nor any indication russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons for belarus, speaking to that issue, this is yet another ....
But before i throw to this, what is the risk to your party with the upcoming presidential elections if the president doesn t ultimately work with republicans on this issue and come together on it. well, the risk is to the country. and we cannot have a default. everyone agrees on that. it is patriotic for america to pay our bills. it is patriotic for america to keep our word. we also agree that we need to figure out how to reduce the deficit. we can have a parallel conversation but we should talk about the price gouging at the department of defense with defense contractors that 60 minutes did a report on, $100 million plus, talk about expenses in the health care system. talk about where the real costs are and find bipartisan ways of reducing it. so you think this is going to get done? we are about to hear from the white house on where things stand. i do think it will get done. i believe it will get done because at the end of the ....
What s important here. i cannot speak to a conversation, a hearsay conversation that s occurring, occurred. another topic, i was following twitter during the announcement of ron desantis and his candidacy. it appeared there were members of the president s team doing the same, enjoying a little of the glitches that appeared to be happening. was there a glitch? also to the fact that elon musk is offering his platform to a potential leading republican candidate for office. would the president consider doing the same on that platform? look, i am not going to speak to twitter and their operation as a private company. just not going to do that from here. as you know we follow the law here, this is an administration that cares about the law and certainly not using taxpayer money to campaign from here. that s something we have been consistent. also got questions from your colleagues about the president s policies, his agenda, how he sees moving forward, especially on the economy. hones ....