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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. i'm tom king in for alisyn camera at that. debt ceiling drama. we're closer to a debt ceiling deal, closer but not there yet. janet yellen gave them four more days, and we've got a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning, can they get it done in time? plus, can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that's the question, as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not being shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a bi...

he is reacting against what he feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster that power recedes, the more frantically he asserts it. he is raging against the dying of the light. these last embarrassing decisions are in fact his death throes. it is sad, really. unfortunately what happens to men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years our world has been covered by a system formed in the final months of world war ii. it's features define our life. free and open global trade routes guaranteed by the u.s. navy, a universal currency...

And in the end, we will all play the price if the incredible majestic north atlantic wright whale becomes extinct. >> amen to that point. thank you for your time. important input. >> thank you, john. >> imagine you're on a plane 700 feet in the air when suddenly the exit door opens. well, that happened on one flight. and we've got the video. that's next. my relationship with my credit cards wasn't good. i got into debt in college, and no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. the high interest... i felt trapped.

Issue that you're incredibly passionate about which is the north atlantic wright whale. you say we're at this now or never moment in trying to save this species. tell us what you mean. >> absolutely, john. it's so serious right now. the north atlantic wright whale, its population, this species, has begun to collapse. this year, we only had 11 surviving offspring. it should be triple that. so, there's a group right called, the international fund for animal welfare. they have a research vessel called song of the whale. they also, not far from here, they have the marine mammal rescue center. then...

Species. >> what are the two or three most important things to do now? >> so, the most important things we can do is make sure we're getting those ghost nets out of the water, we work with our friends in the fishing community. you know, i actually commercial fish in the summer myself. but the fishing community, they are our allies and they're our partners to this success. for example, we now have these incredible state of the art technology lobster traps that actually deploy the buoys when they're ready to be collected versus just hanging in the water, potentially entangling whales. we have th...