you have done it all. i ve been in a lot of rooms, for whatever that s worth. you learned so much along the way. president biden at a summit. you have been to the g7 meetings. projecting strength against russia. we heard the f-16 thing is being cleared up. it will take four months to train the pilots. china sitting out there, holding their own summit. back home, he has the negotiations. everything depends on this, economic strength of the u.s., the recession. you have got members i interviewed bob good, a house member, yesterday. his belief is that default is not such a big deal. they are clearly not people who have attended these summits, as you said. susan glasser wrote a great piece about this today. what s important to understand is when the president of the united states is at a summit or when he is not, all of the word leaders and their teams are watching what s happening in the united states. is democracy going to last? are they going to default?
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
with the g7 nations meeting in japan and preparing to discuss countering china s growing influence, president xi is holding a summit of his own in china with central asian nations. this as his government is cracking down on u.s. companies doing business many china. several raids taking place this month over so-called national security and espionage concerns of theirs. the wall street journal reporting today that china s intelligence and state security chief is in charge of the crackdown. one raid on a foreign consulting company was televised on chinese state tv. janis mackey frayer joins us from beijing. what s prompting the raids? this seems like a turn against american investment, which is important as china tries to raise its gdp. reporter: exactly. it s put foreign companies on edge here. it s really put foreign companies on edge here, andrea.
jets, something the white house had long resisted. this weekend ukraine s president zelenskyy will likely be asking for even more as he makes a dramatic appearance at that summit in japan. we ve got it all covered with chief white house correspondent kristen welker in hiroshima. reporter: tonight with president biden overseas meeting g7 allies in japan including paying tribute to the victims. the hiroshima nuclear strike a dramatic development back home. house speaker kevin mccarthy revealing there s been a breakdown. well, we ve got to get moving by the white house. we don t have any movement here, so we re going to pause. reporter: that day long pause 24 hours after all sides expressed optimism towards a deal. yesterday i felt we were at the location where i could see the path.
rockets that are being fired by russia. what is happening on the border between ukraine and poland, so we have a credibility in that room that is really important. to assure people that we are going to get to the bottom of what took place. really, to consider what the responses are if this did come from russia in some fashion, does this mean that we are going to open up a spigot to providing more military assistance to ukraine. for nato that is something that we would want to discuss with our european and nato allies as well. so there is a lot to cover here, but i think thus far, this has been a very prudent response and frankly, contrasting with the other news tonight, also good to have a president who is going to be trusted to run this through the professionals in the intelligence community and not make any rash decisions in a matter of very grave consequences. ben rhodes, thank you very much for joining us tonight on this important story. thank you lawrence. coming up, our nex