course of the next two days. perhaps it will get a bit tricky for secretary blinken. thanks so much. let s get insight from cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozer. a senior managing editor of the military times. great to see you this morning. good morning to tu. so we keep hearing the main objective is, you know, to reopen these lines of communications, yes, high stakes but low expectations. does it boil down to trying to find a way so the tensions don t spiral into conflict? well, blinken s trip has basically two tracts. you have the immediate practical and long-term and strategic. when it comes to the immediate and practical, as kylie was saying, those recent near-misses between a u.s. and chinese warship when the chinese warship made a close encounter, just drove straight in front of the u.s. warship, kind of playing
to take ground than to hold it. now they have gotten what is essentially a shattered city, the majority of it, but ukrainians have been trying to sort of draw them in. it will be interesting to see what the ukrainian next step is. there has been talk even of encircling the russian troops and attacking them. at the very least, what they have done is a holding action to buy time for a new surge of trained ukrainian troops, new weaponry for that counteroffensive across all fronts. kimberly dozer, thank you. now that president biden is heading back home, his top priority is the debt ceiling stalemate and he mention in that news conference he will be getting on the phone with the house speaker kevin mccarthy shortly. cnn white house reporter jasmine wright joining us from washington with the very latest on these negotiations. let s call it a stalemate. as we heard from phil mattingly earlier, more than a stalemate. it looks like talks have taken a
kimberly dozer, general hertling, thank you so much for sharing part of your sunday with us. thanks. all right. and secretary of state antony blinken is expected to land at any moment now in turkey where he will see firsthand the devastation left behind by that powerful earthquake two weeks ago. we are hearing new stories of people still being rescued after being trapped under the rubble. we will share them with you. also, residents in ohio say they are convinced the chemicals a train was carrying when it derailed are making them is sick. we will talk to a doctor about the potential health impacts and what it may mean for the future. we re talking about. rooty tooty fresh n fruity yep, it s back. for a limited time. the six dollar r rooty tooty fresh n fruity combo. 2 eggs, 2 bacon strips, and 2 fruit totopped pancakes. only from m ihop. (vo) when you love the environment, you work to protect it.
concerns about china. so the president will have to really address all of these things in the next few days leading up to that anniversary. boris, amara. a busy week ahead for president biden. we know you will be watching it. jasmine wright from the white house, thank you. let s expand this conversation with kimberly dozer and cnn military analyst and retired army lieutenant mark hertling, a former kmantder of european in the seventh army. first, kimberly, to you, what is president biden s top priority going into poland? to keep the allies together, to keep the aid flowing into ukraine and if anything to speed is up because u.s. officials and european officials are aware that the longer this goes on, the more that ukraine is losing its human capital to conduct
clearly not as much as the kremlin expected and hoped by this stage. let s bring in analyst kimberly dozer and former special forces operator mark hayward. he just returned home after volunteering with the ukrainian armed forces since nearly the beginning of the war. a lot of interesting stuff that you have to share with us here. first, i want to talk about these reports. new cnn reporting the u.s. intel provided ukrainian forces and i m being careful about the wording with russian warship location before ukraine was successfully able to target it with antiship missiles. what are sources telling you? we re getting a lot of pushback on the specificity, but i did talk to a senior u.s. official who said from the beginning of the war, they have been trying to provide ukrainian forces as much intelligence as those troops needed to a accurately target, but also to survive the russian on slot. the sensitivity to these reports