whelan and brittney griner. president biden preparing to speak to chinese leader xi jinping today amid rising tension was taiwan. how will the surprising deal involving moderate democrat joe manchin impact the economy and the biden presidency? and live during this show, what will the gdp report tell us about a potential recession? former white house aide cassidy hutchinson now cooperating with the justice department s january 6 investigation. who else is talking? and is mike pompeo the next to sit before the january 6th committee? we have new reporting this morning. let s go first, though, to the state department for new developments on the proposed prisoner swap of a convicted russian arms dealer for brittney griner and paul whelan. cnn s kylie atwood broke this story and is at the state department this morning. what movement have you seen? reporter: the biden administration has put this offer on the table for viktor bout, a convicted arms trafficker as part of a
today. he says he also usually sells 4,000 to 6,000 bales of hay every year to cattle ranchers but this year the ground is so dry he s only done about 300. i feel for a lot of people, people they ve been doing this for years and years and now they don t have anything to hold on to. you know, they re having to let go. we put these bales of hay out a couple of days ago and they re already gone and they re $100 apiece. reporter: wade is a fourth generation cattle rancher on this land. he says this ranch field should be covered in lush green grass a foot high, now it s a sea of hard scrabbled brown dust, the remaining burnt grass crunches under your feet. we talked under the shade of an oak tree as he explained it might have to sell more of his cows. do you get emotional thinking about that possibility? oh, yeah. you don t want to do it. you don t want to sell them. you know, most of these cattle well, all of these cattle we raised, we raised them