and i m max foster. just ahead negotiations still ongoing, still unresolved. stewart rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on thursday. have a good day. next. memorial day weekend is just the start of what will be a busy summer travel season that we re expecting. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 26, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where they are moving closer to a day to pay the government s bill. it would reportedly raise the debt ceiling but cap spending levels for two years. and manu raju reports that nothing is final until it is final. reporter: negotiations between the speaker and his top allies and the white house still ongoing, still unresolved, even as the u.s. is considering prospects of the first ever debt default as soon as next week and amid warnings that the u.s. credit rating could be downgraded if the national down limit which now stands at $31.4 trillion
[ applause ] i think we, if you make the demand, here is what has ha to happen. all of you folks and i hope, and i m not being facetious when i say this, hopefully republicans hear as well, we got to make sure that this becomes a voting issue. that s president biden, sitting down with jimmy kimmel last night, after traveling to los angeles, to host the summit of the americas. we re going to have much more on that important gathering with world leaders. we are also following the latest in the debate of gun safety legislation as an 11-year-old survivor of the uvalde massacre and a parent to one of the students killed testified before congress. and it s here. a block buster night for the january 6th committee. as the first hearings into the capitol attack kick off this evening in prime time. we ll tell you what to expect. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, june 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it was an emotional day on c
technology that ukraine had. they can cause a great deal of damage. they frustrate ukraine at a time when it is trying to fight on the frontlines. and the concern is that iran could provide more than just drones. this relationship between moscow and tehran is deepening. the cooperation is becoming more and more important as russia turns to iran for help to replenish its arsenal of course on those front lines oig. iran sees an opportunity here to rebalance, if you will, its relationship with moscow. experts tell us. and the key thing to remember, the caspian sea, look at that map, u.s. doesn t have a footprint there. may toe do nato doesn t have a footprint there. so difficult to stop this atth if at all. thank you, salma. still ahead, only two candidates seem to be a viable challenge to president biden. how are they faring, we ll look at the latest cnn polling. plus a letter to laundrie
month. the white house announcing yesterday that the president will end travel to, will travel to germany in late june, for the g-7 summit and then on to madrid for the 2022 may toe nato summit. topping the agenda for both gatherings is the ongoing war in ukraine and the ongoing food and energy crisis. joining us is former supreme allied commander and admiral james stravineos, diplomacy analyst for msnbc and the author of a new book to risk it all, nine conflicts and the crucible of decision, admiral, thanks so much for being with us today. let s start with those two summits later this month, in june, and g-7 in germany, nato in spain, what needs to happen in those meetings, as the war in ukraine settles in to a slog that could last for months and months, and test the resolve of the western allies.
time of chemical weaponry. we of course feel like, you know, we are here waiting for different kinds of weaponry to be used against us. yesterday, john kirby s statement about it s not time yet extra to ukraine actually shows that the miscommunication in the u.s. government as four days ago we heard from mr. blinken, the head of state department, they could provide extra military from may toe countries. we were asking for no-fly zone, but if we don t get it, why don t we get the extra jets? they just try to fight this and big miscommunication, which is very disappointing for ukrainians because we are being killed. let me say another very