reporter: during 2010 he encouraged tea partiers to run. initially he is setting out and saying, i m going to work with obama. we re going to work on issues like the budget together. that quickly falls apart as congress debates raising the debt ceiling many tea partiers are saying we won t do it, which means the whole nation will go into default. you can catch that tonight at 9:00 p.m. right here on cnn. thanks so much for joining us this morning. state of the union is next. have a great day, everyone. dead locked. 11 days left on the clock and debt ceiling negotiators are moving farther apart. much of what they ve already proposed is quite frankly unacceptable. reporter: is the risk of default only growing? i ll speak exclusively to republican senator bill cassidy in moments. and show of unity.
deadlocked. 11 days left on the clock and debt ceiling negotiators are moving farther apart. much of what they ve already proposed is, quite frankly, unacceptable. is the risk of default only growing? i ll speak exclusively to republican senator bill cassidy in moments. and show of unity, president biden gives ukraine fighters a sky-high advantage. we have ukraine s back. after scrapping part of his world trip for debt ceiling talks is the u.s. on shaky ground on the world stage? national security adviser jake sullivan joins me exclusively from japan, plus go time. president trump readies himself for his biggest gop challenger yet. it s easy to be a front-runner. as the republican field expand, will any of them crack trump s hold on the party? hello.
cannot beat biden as he makes a push to post a large campaign war chest the day he announces. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. republican debt ceiling negotiators say they are pressing pause on the talks at a critical stage in the process. in the last hour, a lead negotiator exiting the talks telling reporters, we re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves. president biden has been receiving briefings on the discussions as he works alongside g7 allies in japan. their priority today, russia s invasion of ukraine with a new round of sanctions by world leaders against the kremlin expected this weekend. they await an expected face-to-face discussion with president zelenskyy in the coming days. joining me now is correspondent kristin welker in japan where she will co-host saturday