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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...

conference at the capitol. >> i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. >> i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then voting on it on wednesday. thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the american publi...

classified documents case. evidence that paints a potentially damning portrait of efforts by the expresident in the expresident's push to retrieve important and sensitive security documents from that "washington post" report, quote, two of donald trump's employees moved boxes of papers the day before fbi agents and a prosecutor visited the former president's florida home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena. timing that investigators have come to view as suspicious, and an indication of possible obstruction. according to people familiar with the matter. trump an...

everyone. thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. >> i'm about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think we're in good shape. >> house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the deal will pass. >> february 1st i sat down with the president. i said let's work together to be ab...

a winner, because that's what we've done in the state of florida. and that's exactly what we would conationally not only in the election -- do nationally, not only in the election, but bringing all these great policies to bear. charles: let's bring in our panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel along with editorial board member kyle peterson. kim, you know, the media had a field day with all those glitches. beyond that, though -- [laughter] do you think there'll be anything else to remember about the announcement? >> well, the glitches are totally forgettable, charles. i thi...