one hour from now, president biden is again going to host the top four members of congress and for potential june default date, and no closer to the deal to have catastrophic outcome, and speaker mccarthy is going to tie the debt ceiling to spending cuts and work requirements and biden is going to call for the debt creeling to be dealing with the condition, and if you are going with what the two sides are saying for the two hours, the forecast gloomy, and arlette seanez is at the white house. at some point, someone has to give up something, and can we find out what the potential concessions are today? well, brianna, in about an hour, we should get a glimpse of where the concessions are headed as the white house is going to be hosting kevin mccarthy and other congressional leader here at the white house. heading into the meeting, the expectations are low that they will come out with a concrete agreement with a default. and you heard house speaker kevin mccarthy who said toda
while answering questions about the negotiations. we ll have those comments for you in just a moment. and they come as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. we ll recap yesterday s events and preview what s ahead including a new round of sanctions for russia aimed at closing loopholes that moscow has been using to security previous attempts to hold it accountable for the invasion of ukraine. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where it appears that at least some progress is being made on the debt ceiling. house speaker kevin mccarthy shifted to optimism yesterday on the negotiations saying a deal could now be made in time in order to avoid a default. i just believe where we were a week ago and where we are today is a much better place because we have the right people in the room discussing it in a very profes
we fail to pay our bills. we re going to come together because there s no alternative. we have to do the right thing for the country. we have to move on. those were president biden s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations just before he took off for the g7 summit in japan. we ll have the very latest on the budget talks and the president s trip overseas. he has arrived. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. because right now these are indeed live pictures from hiroshima, japan, where president biden is meeting with japanese prime minister kishida ahead of their bilateral meeting. g7 leaders are gathering there where they will likely focus on the war in ukraine and tensions in asia. the president, of course, had announced he was cutting short his planned trip to the pacific, no longer visiting papau new guinea or australia in order to get back on sunday to continue those debt ceiling negotiate asians. we ll bring you
pressure. lots of isobars on the charts, hence the strong winds, and outbreaks of rain. it is pushing its way eastwards and some heavy showers follow on behind it. you see flashes of lightning there and this rain band becomes confined to england and wales and the south east towards the end of the night. the wins are a real feature, end of the night. the wins are a realfeature, gusting 50 or 60 miles an hour on the irish coast, after 70 on the coast of western scotland. that becomes confined to the south and it stays very wet in scotland. but the ones eased down for part two of the night. a cooler feel two things across the north and the west. double figure values in the south east where it will remain wet into tomorrow morning. as we head through thursday that whether frank clears away and the next feature runs into the southern half of the country in the afternoon. a wet start for east anglia and the south and the rain is slow to clear, but eventually it will. elsewhere it i
reports this tuesday, the president is expected to talk, the nations faces inflation, supply chain problems and soaring gas prices, to mention a few. i m john roberts in washington. good to see you again. john: and good to be with you. sandra: raising interest rates since the fastest pace since the 1980s and soaring prices have americans paying more for just about everything. john: the pain at the pump, a big bite of american s wallets, as the cost of gas surged to another record, and the economic woes could worsen. an already backlogged global supply chain. sandra: gene sperling is a senior adviser to the president, he will join us in moments. john: but first, peter doocy live from the north lawn. who is the president blaming for inflation today? peter: somebody else, john, hearing from the president and top staffers they don t think the biden administration policies are to blame for rising prices, they think a lot of the responsibility lies still with vladimir