ownership have in me to, you know, kind of lead the charge along with bam right now. anything is possible. they trust me with the ball on the defensive end. and i think that s what any basketball player wants. that s what anybody wants out of life is just to be wanted. be appreciated. and just let you go out there and rock. great stuff there from butler. he was also active. this run is possible this wherp in that tournament. he said, damn right he did. we love jimmy butler. love. i love what he said applies to everyone s life in one way or another. i know. amazing. can t wait to see what happens next in the series. andy, we ll check back in with you. for everyone else, cnn this morning continues right now. they re declassified when i took them. if you re going to declassify records this is how you do it. he did not do any of those things. the chase in new york speaking to all the fears that harry has been so vocal about. the fact that i lost many i mom whe
he said many, many times. they absolutely will. they do that at the appropriate time. right now, there is nothing on the schedule. i do want to hasten to add that the lines of communication with china are open. we re still working through our embassy in beijing to get secretary blinken back on a plane as he was supposed to do i acouple months ago. we re also in talks with the prc about potential visits by secretaries yellen to talk about economic issues. so those lines of communication are open. that is really important. what we would like to do is get those military lines of communication open. they were shut down. speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan. yeah. i was just going to say. in kaitlan s interview with lloyd austin on that topic, that was key. what were you going to say? one question on ukraine before we have another topic for you, john. i know that you are representing the white house right now. you have to be careful about political comments that you can
santos represents a district that joe biden won by eight points. conceivable if they had to have a special election, democrats would pick up the seat. republican majority would get narrower. imagine that you re george santos for a second. the congressional seat is the only thing he has in the whole world. if he resigns from congress, what is there left for george santos to do? so, you know, the idea that they re going to shame him into resigning, like, you know, the one thing he has to wake up for in the morning is that despite all of this, he is a member of the united states congress. i think there is no way he s going to go willingly. to a much p more serious top, the debt ceiling. the president did not answer the question shouted at him by reporters in japan this morning, can you guarantee the u.s. won t default? john kirby didn t answer kaitlan s direct question. can you guarantee, can the white house guarantee the u.s. won t default? and the president is going back to deal wit
the damn thing. not as easy as all. that that s how people feel about it right now. and, of course this is something that is affecting president biden s trip abroad. he is in japan for a summit. there is the war raging in ukraine. the debt limit crisis back home looming over this trip. joining us now is the white house s national security council spokesman john kirby in japan traveling with him and with president biden. john, i just want to ask you the question that president biden was asked earlier while meeting with the japanese prime minister that he did not answer which is can he guarantee u.s. allies the u.s. is not going to default on its debt this week? well, we can guarantee that we re going to treat these discussions with members of congress as seriously as we possibly can. and the president said, he is optimistic we ll get there. look, congress this is something that is a congressional duty. they have done it 78 previous