i m richard louis, in for yasmin o sullivan. canceled on christmas eve travelers scrambling after a wave of flight cancellations, backing those in a rush to get home for the holidays. we are live at one of the airport to the hardest. we are following the breaking news out of gaza. five hostages in hamas tunnels have been found. we will go to tel aviv for the latest on that. this whole election interference case should be stopped in its tracks. this comes after the supreme court refused to hear an expedited appeal in this case and awaits a potential appeal of a colorado state supreme court decision kicking trump off the ballot there. i agree with the colorado supreme court. i said, gosh, for quite some time that donald trump has incited the insurrection. there should not be a loophole for inciting insurrection for the presidency. this colorado supreme court made a political decision. in my view, there is no constitutional basis for the decision they rendered. i think it
hear in the next few minutes? reporter: they are walking into the room where they will have this bilateral meeting, this is at a hotel here in hiroshima. the president there shaking the prime minister s hand. and this is real an important moment. u.s. officials say that they view prime the prime minister a political ally in the surprising role that he has taken over the war in ukraine and applying sanctions on russia that haven t been a guarantee. so you hear a lot from american officials how pleased they are at how strong the relationship has become. this summit only takes place every seven years so i think that you will see china playing a significant role. of course president biden wants the leaders to coalesce to counter beijing s military and economic aggressions. and you have seen that the backdrop is quite significant. that hasn t always been easy. there are significant differences in how they want to approach china. and so heading out of the summit president biden w
president. so he really did want to maintain this stop. the other stops he was able to cancel, but this is one that he really did want to come to here in hiroshima. and i think it is worth reminding people it wasn t very long ago that it was called the g8 because russia was invited as a courtesy to this group. of course after the invasion of crimea, russia was expelled from the g8 and it became the g7 again. let s listen in for a minute. we have the japanese prime minister making remarks. translator: technology, mits oig m.i.t. one of the leading universities has commenced gaining cooperation from the united states, we will materialize such vision. today we joe and i will go over what we intend to discuss at the g7 summit and engage in
this summit only takes place every seven years so i think that you will see china playing a significant role. of course president biden wants the leaders to coalesce to counter beijing s military and economic aggressions. and you have seen that the backdrop is quite significant. that hasn t always been easy. there are significant differences in how they want to approach china. and so heading out of the summit president biden will really want to emerge with sort of a sense of cohesion among the group. american officials say there won t be what they call arm twisting, but they do want to make sure everybody is on the same page. and he was committed to this t
about ukraine as well. they are expected to announce new sanctions really trying to close some of the loopholes that exist that have allowed certain russian entities to evade sanctions. and they will talk about the actual battlefield in ukraine as ukraine prepares for the counteroffensive. the real hope among the leaders is that ukraine will be able to regain territory that will provide it leverage at an eventual negotiating table. of course where and when that happens remains to be seen. but the president wants to ensure that the leaders are on the same page. so ukraine, china, the two main geopolitical issues that the leaders will talk about, but of course the debt ceiling that is threatening global stability also on the agenda. sort of looming over these talks as the president receives these continual updates from back in washington about how the negotiations are going. yeah, there is a team and as mccarthy said, there is a format