hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. and i m rosemary church. just ahead, the u.s. house passes a debt ceiling bill. but there s zero chance it will get through the senate. we ll look at what, if anything, is up for negotiation when it comes to budget cuts. plus, thousands of civilians are caught in the middle of a deadly conflict in sudan. many desperate to leave the country for their safety. we ll look at that. and later, the lawmakers, business leaders and celebrities who gathered at the white house for a state dinner honoring the south korean president. good to have you with us. republicans in the u.s. house have passed a bill to raise the national debt limit and cut spending. they say it will put the country on the path of fiscal responsibility and avoid an economic catastrophe. but democrats are not onboard. they want a stand-alone bill that lets the u.s. pay its debt out spen
they re spying on us. they re doing this purposefully and the president should have been much stronger in his response to this. all right. a live at the nation s capitol where in just a few hours, the president will be delivering his state of the union address but will the china spy flight overshadow the big speech. we re all over it with jared burn steen on the president s economic message tonight. the senate minority whip john thune on what republicans want to hear. ben car den on if the china spy balloon is threatening to inflate that message. and cry sununu on what he thinks of the state of the union. i think it s going to be a big night. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. let s get to it with the latest from the pentagon and the china thing with jennifer griffin. there may be a simply inflammation why trump administration officials say they were never told about previous spy balloons that crossed over u.s. airspace. they saw multiple conversations trying to get
can t give or on what timeline. and if one of our allies and partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have ever right to make we would welcome that. $100 million in the appropriations bill in july to train ukrainian pilots on u.s. aircraft. what s the status no training underway right now, there s no commitment by the united states to provide fighter aircraft. you don t have to have fighter aircraft. no p training right now on fighter pilots. president biden s trip to poland, can we expect any deliverables, like a new military package for ukraine or new framework of support for ukraine and another one you just mentioned at the beginning of this press briefing that there are 10,000 u.s. troops in poland. why is there no meeting with the troops on president biden s schedule? the president routinely visits with the men and women of the military and their families, so does the first lady. you cannot look at
let us start in ohio. 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride was released into the air, following the derailment of the northern suffolk train two weeks ago, a chemical that can cause dna mutations and lead to long-term cancers, according to a lawsuit that s alleging all of that, and it is a big reason why residents of east palestine ohio say they don t believe officials who are telling them it s safe to go home, safe to breathe, safe to drink the water. the epa administrator was there yesterday. the governor was out there today. it s okay, they say, we ve tested the air. we ve tested the water. still, residents are complaining about burning in their lungs and their eyes. and unusual rashes. they re worried about their kids. can they bathe them in their bathtub. can they use the tap to mix formula for their babies. the federal government is setting medical teams to both examine residents and assess what dangers could still exist, an acknowledgment that the aftermath of this der
the president says he is ordering new rules to track and monitor such devices. we he have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon on more on what the defense department knows and does not know about what is in the skies. first up, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich with the president s message. good evening, jacqui. hey, good evening, mike. president biden revealed the three objects shot down since friday were most likely tied to private companies or research institutions. but he defended his choice to blast them out of the sky following chinese spy balloon. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazard to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. critics watching the president s remarks say he missed a golden opportunity to drive home the threat about china s spy program. in the last several weeks. i have been informed this is a program that our country has kno