japan s prime minister wants to double the defense spending including buying 400 american tomahawk cruise missiles to send a not so subtle message to china. no stranger to new york. he spent part of his childhood right there in new york and visited washington earlier this year. as you said back in january, when you were at the white house, i think the quote is we face one of the most complex environments in recent history, security environments. and i couldn t agree with you more. but i m proud that the united states and japan are facing it together. when our countries stand together we stand stronger and i believe the whole world is safer. president biden will be in japan through sunday. the trip was supposed to include three-point papua new guinea and australia the unresolved ceiling talks in washington has forced biden to cut his trip short. the president sounded optimistic about his talks before catching a flight to japan. i m confident that we ll get the agreemen
japan s prime minister wants to double the defense spending including buying 400 american tomahawk cruise missiles to send a not so subtle message to china. no stranger to new york. he spent part of his childhood right there in new york and visited washington earlier this year. as you said back in january, when you were at the white house, i think the quote is we face one of the most complex environments in recent history, security environments. and i couldn t agree with you more. but i m proud that the united states and japan are facing it together. when our countries stand together we stand stronger and i believe the whole world is safer. president biden will be in japan through sunday. the trip was supposed to include three-point papua new guinea and australia the unresolved ceiling talks in washington has forced biden to cut his trip short. the president sounded optimistic about his talks before catching a flight to japan. i m confident that we ll get the agreement on the b
that s the memorial day flowers.org. and those are your headlines, ainsley. ainsley: wow, we have got to get those numbers up. they all need to be honored memorial day flowers.org. thank you so much, ashley. you re welcome. ainsley: president biden now in japan where he will meet with world leaders at the g-7 summit in hiroshima. the high stakes trip being cut short over the looming debt ceiling default here at home. joining us now what we can expect from the president on the world stage is foreign policy experts rebecca expert i should say rebeccah heinrichss. hey, rebecca. good morning. ainsley: what do you think the focus will be? will it be russia and china? ukraine? or will it be what is happening here at home with our debt crisis? well, the cloud that s kind of hanging over the entire g summit authoritarian china and the threat that it poses to the region and beyond and the fact that china is contesting the united states and the idea, the system of government and de
that america will not default. and every leader in the room understands the consequences if we fail to pay our bills and would be catastrophic for the for the american economy and the american people if we didn t pay our bills. the house speaker kevin mccarthy blasted the president for leaving those debt ceiling talks unresolved. mr. president, stop hiding, stop traveling somewhere else. america wants an american president focused on american problems, finding american solutions. now papua new guinea had declared a national holiday to honor biden s visit. the first sitting by u.s. president. back to work, party is over. china s president has visited the region three times including a visit to postoperative pa new guinea. let s not forget north korea. back in october launched a missile that flew over japan, guys. steve: main reason they re cutting the ghawd australia and papua new guinea.
that s why this trip is going to be undermined by the fact that president biden is cutting it short. not going to papua, new guinea and key ally australia. the message look america is sticking around. item crazy is hard but we are committed and is he not even going to show up? that really undermines really the message that i think president biden shouldenning sending all over the united states. ainsley: he is in a tough spot he doesn t want to cut his trip short because of the message it sends to other countries at the same time we definitely need to be focused on our debt crisis because if we don t fix that, it s going to effect every country around the world. the republicans, including mccarthy, speaker mccarthy said mr. president, stop hiding, stop traveling, americans want an american president focused on american problems what would you recommend if you were in the administration? well, here s the thing. kevin mccarthy actually demonstrated that he is able to deliver a debt ce