leading the stops with something tangible. $375 million in military assistance from president biden. even more than that, he would sign off on the u.s. participating in a training program for f-16 pilots. he ll sign off on european countries being able to export their stocks if they choose to do so. also the nonmember countries that were here, leaders that perhaps represent countries that have been trying to stay neutral, on the fence, maybellining a little toward russia in the conflict, he had an opportunity to meet with them, too, or make them listen to what he had to say. that s why this visit was so tangible even when you keep in mind what is expects in the weeks and months ahead. the counteroffensive of this war is continuing grind forward in a very clear sense that among the g7 leaders, there needs to be an endgame at some point. they need to know what that looks like, and so much is contingent on what that looks
zelensky with the leaders of g7. he took the eighth spot. it was once held by russia, vladimir putin, before it was rejected over the annexation of crimea. president trump wanted to bring russia back into the g7. he had quite a heated argument with his fellow leaders about this issue. he was opposed by leaders like angela merkel and boris johnson who were in power at the time. it s certainly an open question how a republican president would handle this issue. and you just heard president trump at our cnn town hall, he wouldn t say he wanted ukraine to win this war and then p thought it would resolve the crisis. it didn t make anyone feel confident here about the kay oltic summit that occurred in the trump years, so this lends a degree of uncertainty as the leaders depart from japan.
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we are here again, a lot of back and forth. they thought they were close to a deal a couple of days ago, and yet we re back down to the wire in crisis talks. from what you re hearing, is there some deal? i know president biden is going to get on air force one an get immediately on the phone with the house speaker. can you fill it out a little bit more for us in terms of what the sticking points are and if there has been any movement? reporter: right now the sticking points appear to be on levels of federal spending. they ve worked through a number of issues, but this appears to be the snag at this point. the republicans want to reverse spending to that of 2022. democrats offered a proposal that decreased some defense spending but left other domestic programs intact. the republicans balked at that, and so we re now kind of that this point where both sides are sharpening their language,
described it as a point of interest. he said there wasn t vibration in the room on this issue. but i do think it s hard to escape the fact that this would pose a real significant challenge to the global economy. for all of the talk of china and russia at the summit, there s no greater threat to global stability than the potential of an american default. it would send the entire global economy into tail spin, and so these leaders, i think, were looking for some kind of reassurance from president biden that a deal could be reached. the other problem is it does nothing to rebuke the sense that you re hearing from euro peoples that the political system is in a state of dysfunction and it s something that s a problem for them particularly when it comes to ukraine, sustaining support for ukraine. this debt back and forth does nothing to convince them that the american political system is in a state of functionality at the moment.