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it is saturday, may 27th, i'm amara walker. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to have you. you're in the cnn newsroom. we begin with debt ceiling negotiations getting down to the wire, as the white house and gop lawmakers are racing against the clock to try to prevent a first-ever u.s. default. >> congress now has fewer than nine days to pass a deal after treasury secretary janet yellen warned yesterday that the country could hit the debt ceiling by june 5th. sources say negotiators are hoping to announce an agreement as soon as today. >> but major sticking points remain. on everything f...

It does seem to be back up, and in these negotiations, you know, pick up, we've seen more consistently, from negotiators from speaker mccarthy talking about optimism or progress, and it does seem that they're hitting a different part of these negotiations and they seem to be pretty nonstop. you know, you have garrett going to the white house the other day for an lsu basketball event and one of the white house negotiators was there, so you know, it is really, it is nonstop talks. >> how much of the republican conference is speaker mccarthy willing to lose to get a deal done? is it just a small ...