it is sunday, july 9th. i am ali velshi. the field of republican presidential candidates is growing. a date has when lockdown for the first republican primaries and caucuses. yesterday, the republican party of iowa announced that it will hold its first in the nation caucus on january 15th of 2024. momentum will pick up next month when the party holds its first primary debate in milwaukee, august 23rd. there is going to be a problem for the country to receive most or some of the candidates together. at least one dozen republicans should be competing in 2024 but only five of them declared candidates have met the requirements to qualify for the first debate. ron desantis, nikki haley, revak wamah swami, tim scott, and donald trump, the undisputed front runner in the race right now. it s difficult to overstate how unusual this race is turning out to be. the republican party has been impeached twice already. he s running for that position again. he is leading the pack. he has been
i do want to especially thank president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote that out when he was there, and he was all in. given mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump south. it s built on the back of trump republican acolytes whose job depends on the support of trump s own base. the dynamics that were on display during the four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in six months since. chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists, and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the entire country to the brink of economic default just a few weeks ago. and encouraged by trump to stonewall efforts to reach a deal on the debt limit. but mccarthy s speakership so far will likely be remembered for republicans many efforts to avenge donald trump to take action against his critics, and to rewrite the narrative of his first presiden
in-person meeting with g7 leaders as the u.s. plans to announce more military aid to the country worth hundreds of millions of dollars. on again, off again as talks to extend the united states debt ceiling start and stop, the hope of a deal happening this weekend becomes dimmer. and syrian president bashar al assad welcomed at the arab league summit after a 12-year suspension. i ll talk to an expert on how he s being received. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy touched down in hiroshima, japan, just moments ago to take part in the g7 summit. it s the latest stop on his whirlwind diplomatic tour to boost support ahead of his country s expected counteroffensive against russian forces. cnn white house reporter kevin liptak joins me now live from hiroshima, japan. well, arguably the guest of honor has touched down. what kind of reception will he get? reporter: yeah, we did see him land here
sarin taiwan, so it will be welcome as a sarin of taiwan, so it will be welcome as a sarin of support. she s been given a warm sarin of support. she s been given a warm welcome, she had a meeting with the taiwanese foreign minister yesterday where he welcomed her to taiwan yesterday where he welcomed her to taiwan and yesterday where he welcomed her to taiwan and she will be welcome wherever taiwan and she will be welcome wherever she goes but i have to say this was wherever she goes but i have to say this was a wherever she goes but i have to say this was a very hard line speech she made this was a very hard line speech she made in this was a very hard line speech she made in which she described china is not under made in which she described china is not under a made in which she described china is not under a threat to the whole of the free not under a threat to the whole of the free and democratic world and i think the free and democratic world and i