Biden, McCarthy confident debt deal will have the votes to pass
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They have a deal, but do they have the votes? |
| 0:05.5 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:08.8 | The negotiations are done. |
| 0:10.3 | The bill is written. |
| 0:11.5 | And now with just days until the United States runs out of money, President Biden and |
| 0:15.5 | House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are rushing to sell the debt ceiling deal to their respected |
| 0:19.9 | parties. |
| 0:20.9 | Then, a rare daytime Russian missile attack on Ukraine's capital city just hours after |
| 0:26.5 | a nighttime assault. |
| 0:28.3 | People children forced to run to shelter and cars dodge missile debris on a busy city |
| 0:33.2 | street. |
| 0:34.2 | Is this the new Russian tactic? |
| 0:36.8 | Plus, on this Memorial Day, an emotional reunion as a group of Vietnam veterans are reunited |
| 0:42.7 | for the first time in decades. |
| 0:45.0 | They recount the story of what bonds them, being prisoners of war held captive in Bamboo |
| 0:50.2 | Tiger Pages. |
| 0:55.5 | Welcome to the special edition of the lead. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm Bianca Lodriga in for Jake Tapper. |
| 0:59.8 | We start today with our money lead and a scramble in Washington, D.C. to avoid an economic |
| 1:04.5 | catastrophe. |
| 1:06.0 | After President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a deal on the national |
| 1:10.1 | debt. |
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