If it's Tuesday deal or no deal, President Biden and Speaker McCarthy's agreement to

avoid a default faces its first big test amid growing tensions on the hill and new efforts

to kill the deal.

Plus, Ron DeSantis kicks off his presidential campaign in Iowa as he looks to recover

from last week's rocky rollout and gain ground on the Republican front runner, Donald

Trump.

And the war in Ukraine comes home to Russia, everything we know and don't know about the

rare strike on Moscow that is being criticized by the White House and has keyed bracing

for potential fallout.

Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where the debt ceiling deal reached between President

Biden and House Speaker McCarthy is facing its first major test right now on Capitol

Hill with less than a week to go until the government defaults.

As we speak, the House rules committee as considering whether or not to send the

deal to the floor for a vote, which House leadership wants to happen tomorrow without

delay, but some Republicans on the committee have other ideas, including Ralph Norman,

who called the deal insanity, and Chip Roy, who referred to it in far less glamorous terms.

Both lawmakers are part of a group of ultra conservative called the Freedom Caucus, which

held a press conference earlier today urging their House colleagues to break with Speaker

McCarthy and kill the deal.

Take a listen.

I want to be very clear.

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