hello. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. president biden will officially meet with ukraine s president zelenskyy at the g7 in japan tomorrow. the white house confirming just a short time ago ukraine scored a key victory with the u.s. after the biden administration signaled it will permit allies to send f-16 fighter jets to the war-torn nation. other g7 leaders have been meeting with zelenskyy. they offered their support for, quote, as long as it takes. g7 meetings are not just about ukraine. leaders are also weighing in on how to confront china s increasing military power. cnn s phil mattingly is in hiroshima. can you give us a preview of what the meeting might be like? reporter: a preview of the day, because i think that s important in the context of things. yes, the bilateral meeting between president biden and president zelenskyy, the first face-to-face meeting between the two since president biden s surprise trip to kyiv earlier this year. there was also a
deadline is june 1st. who has time for a break? well, apparently conversations are not productive, at least that s how the gop is framing it. here was the republicans lead negotiator, congressman garrett graves who walked out of the room early today. the house passed the strong bill. it has great savings, and it s responsible and puts us on a path. until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves. speaker mccarthy says the pause is not fatal, and the white house says an agreement remains possible, but it does concede, the white house does, both sides are still pretty far apart, perhaps as far apart as some of the more progressive senate democrats who say the president should ignore a vote all together, and raise the ceiling by himself, with authority, they argue, is granted by the 14th amendment. and the house freedom caucus which tweeted today t
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. four, three, two, one. engine s full power. and liftoff. falcon 9, go axiom. [ applause ] together we expand this is a beautiful sight if you just missed it, right now four private astronauts are on the way to the international space station. the axiom 2 mission blasted off from the kennedy space center just minutes ago. we ll go there live in just a few minutes to wrap up some really remarkable developments on the space coast. but on the meantime, here in atlanta and in washington, negotiations are resuming to confront the looming debt crisis. the talks will be at the staff level for the moment but they will set the stage for a high-stakes meeting between the president and kevin mccarthy. they spoke today and this new glimmer of optimism, if we could believe it, comes as the prospect of a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. are you at all optimistic about what we could accomplish today. could we g
scott, they ve got but can either of them take down donald trump? i m simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. do you hear that? it is the sound of a clock ticking, and with each passing second, your financial future is more at risk. after hitting pause on the debt ceiling negotiations for hours, negotiators for the white house and congressional republican negotiators patrick mchenry and darren gray s continued talks last night, but left without progress. we are reporting they are not expected to meet today. republican negotiators are demanding the white house cave in to some of the drastic spending cuts. now, president biden is currently in hiroshima for the g7 conference, and is returning tomorrow. he says the risk of default is too serious. after last night s meeting, congress members graves and mchenry, they expressed skepticism as to whether a deal could be reached by june 1st. take a listen. this was a negotiation tonight. this was a candid discussion a
coming. a plus, to moccasin style in danger. fulton county georgia tsn enis drawing signal about how the president could be indicted. for trying to overturn the 2020 election. but, this indictment is just another legal liability for the guy who can explicitly still pull in strong with the gop. joins me in studio a little later to break it all down. later, unmask a medical racism, how the color of our skin could be the difference between life or death. we re going inside the fight for fairness and health care. all this is much more is coming up. a good sunday morning to you all, i am katie phang. we are going to start today show with an urgent new message from president biden on the debt ceiling showdown. it s time for republicans to accept that there is no bipartisan view to be made solely, solely on their partisan terms. they have to move as well. all four congressional leaders agree with me that the default is not, let me say it again, default is not an option. i expect