i don t live here, but they re everywhere. welcome to our hell of cicadas. or as brianna likes to call them, lunch. cnn s coverage continues right now with poppy harlow and jim sciutto. very good wednesday morning. no cicada snacks here. i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. i cannot believe what s happened with them. so far, happening right now, now the cicada incident is over, president biden is now officially on board air force one headed for his first international trip in the coming days. the president faces critical meetings with global leaders that will define relationships around the globe hoping for legislative wins here at home while he s away. but those hopes fading fast. this is an eight-day trip. it consistents of stops in the united kingdom, brussels and geneva where he ll hold an in-person summit with russian president vladimir putin.
end the same way the capito white house negotiations ended yesterday you get into a situation where democrats need to be prepared to move quickly. there s pressure from progressives to go ahead and move on from these bipartisan talks more quickly than the biden administration has been willing to do. so it s important for viewers back home to keep in mind that any bill that biden wants to push forward still needs 50 democratic senators. and part of the reason you see the white house continuing these bipartisan discussions is they have to convince someone like joe manchin to go ahead and cut off talks on this bipartisan group and to do that, they have to make it look like they re very serious about having those conversations themselves. okay, lauren, thank you for laying all that out for us. let s talk about the details with our political analyst co-author of political playbook, rachael bade. you guys have a lot of fascinating nuggets in playbook in terms of how this call went with cas
the vaccine. now after his meetings here at the g7 summit, he and the first lady will travel to windsor where they ll meet with queen elizabeth. president biden the 13th american president the queen will meet. and then the president will move on to meetings in brussels for the nato and eu summit. and culminating the entire week is the high-stakes sit-down with russian president vladimir putin. there was some debate within the white house about whether the president should be engaging with him on this first foreign trip, but ultimately, the president sees value in having that face-to-face interaction. and while the white house says there may not be any tangible results from that putin meeting, they are stressing that it will help set the course for discussions going forward. of course, this is also president biden s first trip as president. he s been preparing this for almost all of his life as he circled the international stage. but today when he lands here in europe, he s the leader o
arlette saenz, nic roebertson, thank you. infrastructure talks have broken down between president biden and a gop group. it s not over yet. the white house is now shifting its focus toward another of bipartisan senate group. this group proposing a $761 billion deal still trying to figure out how they d pay for it. lauren fox is on capitol hill. lauren, good morning to you. so he gets off the phone with capito, always sort of peaceful, but they didn t get much done. n then gets on the phone with senator cassidy, apparently. that s exactly right. not just senator cassidy but others as well. including democrat kyrsten sinema. i think what is significant here is that you are seeing the white house start to shift their focus from those bipartisan talks they were having, of course, with shelley moore capito to what they may be able to do both alone and with a bipartisan group of senators that had been
even though they d prefer a bipartisan one. the infrastructure bills will be huge, chock full of specific spending for their states. are they going to vote against that? i m skeptical. this is president biden showing that he s willing to try to make that bipartisan bill, bending over backwards to try to talk to anybody who wants to talk to him to strike this agreement. but i do think you have to watch these other democrats right now. progressives, pramila jayapal put out a statement last night calling this a waste of time. people are getting very fed up. democrats are getting very fed up with these talks and they re ready to move. so i was reading this gq profile last night on manchin from 2018. and this line struck me then rachael that he said. he told a reporter, my worst day as governor was better than my best day as senator. my worst day as governor was better than my best day as senator. and that was then. i just wonder your thoughts on