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Appreciate your company. Coming up on cnn newsroom, an agreement in principle on the debt ceiling. Washington has a plan to avoid a catastrophic default, but details still need to be ironned out, then it has to get through congress. Also ukraines top general issues a pointed message for his soldiers, russia, and the world. And we do begin in Washington A Late Night Agreement to try to prevent a looming debt crisis. The white house and republicans have reached a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling and cap government spending. It is meant to avert the first u. S. Default in history, whic...

appreciate your company. coming up on "cnn newsroom," an agreement in principle on the debt ceiling. washington has a plan to avoid a catastrophic default, but details still need to be ironned out, then it has to get through congress. also ukraine's top general issues a pointed message for his soldiers, russia, and the world. and we do begin in washington a late night agreement to try to prevent a looming debt crisis. the white house and republicans have reached a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling and cap government spending. it is meant to avert the first u.s. defaul...

Demands in an election year. are both of these things wins for the president? >> i think the devil is in the details on the actual spending levels. so if, in fact, spending levels are kept flat not adjusting for inflation and republicans are fighting to increase defense spending, then that would imply that there have to be cuts somewhere else to offset the increase in defense spending. i don't know exactly what the accounting is yet. we have very few details. maybe they mean spending is flat for all the nondefense stuff. in any event, yes, there could very well be cuts to some programs that co...

Demands in an election year. are both of those things wins for the president? >> well, i think the devil is in the details on the actual spending levels. so if, in fact, spending levels are kept flat, not adjusting for inflation, and republicans are fighting to increase defense spending, then that would imply there would have to be cuts somewhere else to offset that increased defense spending. i don't exactly know the accounting yet. again, we have very few details. maybe they need spending flat for all the nondefense stuff. in any event, yes, there could very well be some cuts to some program...