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 are talk
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