Game-changer. russian officials meanwhile warned western countries that they would ruin, rather run colossal risks if they supply ukraine with f-16s. but white house officials are saying they got assurances that ukraine will avoid potential escalations of the war. we have had multiple conversations with ukrainians about the risk of escalation here. nobody wants to see world war iii. and we have made it clear that we re not gonna encourage or ukraine to strike inside russian territory. so we ve had that discussion with ukrainians, we have had it with respect to fighter aircraft. we are confident they will live up to their commitments. more on the presidents trip in a moment, back in washington, the white house is blasting congressional lawmakers over the debt ceiling deadlock. accusing republicans of holding the economy hostage. talks between both parties started, paused, restarted and ended with no indication of whether they will resume. , president biden was briefed this morning a
Back, the most important thing is to avoid a default. that s what would ultimately damage u.s. credibility more than cutting a trip short. but i think some of this is also just not wanting to be perceived as not trying as hard as you can at the think that folks are worried about back home. that makes. that s what kind of approach, peter, is the white house taking? has there been a shift in strategy? things are moving pretty quickly a lot closer to june 1st in this deadline. how much pressure is biden getting from progressives to not negotiate? well, i think you see, obviously, some base firming up on both. sides you see kevin mccarthy saying well, we re gonna put a pause on this because we want to convince the conservatives that he s drawing a hard-line. we keep saying hey, we re making good progress. we might have a deal by the end of the week. but you got a lot of pushback from the freedom caucus and others, similarly on the, side the president biden has been hearing from, libera
I m pretty much. everything thank, you mike, family will go to nbc, s julie tsirkin on capitol hill. new word moments ago on the debt ceiling talks in d.c.. julie, what are you hearing? after we thought they might be meeting, today we saw some breakfast fold into the room early this morning, spotted by our e. coli producer, we actually have learned per two sources that negotiators for the white house and the hill are not expected to meet today. no scheduled meetings on their calendars. we are told this comes after last night, we remember we were here late last night with congressman, garrett greaves, and patrick mchenry, those negotiators that speaker mccarthy has appointed to be in the room with the white house trying to hammer out this deal. they told us at about 9:00 last night that that was a candid discussion, and not a negotiation. here, though, is what speaker mccarthy had to say early in the day for the status on what those negotiations mean and president biden earlier in jap
And the world. democracy is the word that has been the core message for biden. the comment from the president came at a meeting of the quad, the leaders of the u.s., japan, india and australia. that gathering, as you remember, was supposed to happen in sydney, australia. the president had to cut this trip short. so that he could get back to the other pressing business in washington. that is the debate earlier today. president biden was asked about the state of those negotiations. he said that he was still confident that a deal could be reached but he called it interestingly, a decent deal. it is interesting to watch how the rhetoric has been changing from optimism to the pause that we saw on friday, to potentially some talks of getting back underway. so this is another issue that has been looming over the presidents foreign travels here. 100. percent thanks for the. details as well as for correcting my pronunciation of hiroshima. i ve gotten into really bad habits. some listening t
we well, alex, we have seen president biden bases entire foreign policy on the idea that the 21st century is going to be defined by this contest of democracies like the united states versus, autocracies like russia and china. and you see it so clearly in the agenda for this g7 summit. it began on friday and put the focus on ukraine. and it will end on sunday as well, as president volodymyr zelenskyy will meet with the leaders of the g7 countries. and just in the last few minutes, we have learned will have a sit-down one-on-one meeting with president. biden you can be sure that the president s decision to greenlight the training and ultimately equipping of ukraine with those f-16 fighter jets will be part of their conversation. the president, of, course will also hold a closing news conference sunday afternoon before heading back to washington. saturday it was a very jam-packed schedule for the president. just concluded about an hour. ago and the focus was really on china. it is not j