shot down, the president said, but that it caused embarrassment to china, because of the fact that he felt that the leadership didn t know that it was there, with it was doing and what it collected. so the president said that he hoped over the next few months, after this visit from secretary blink, that we know that was rescheduled after that balloon, the president says he hopes in the next several months that he is able to meet with chinese president xi over the next few months. but of course, we will be looking for the next few days to see exactly what happens on secretary blinken s trip to china. very, very consequential one, and we know how high tensions are between the u.s. and china. victor? jasmine wright at the white house. thank you. as blinken heads to china for that long delayed trip, u.s. officials have lowered expectations for the visit. but there is hope that blinken will help stabilize relations with beijing. blinken was originally set to travel to beijing in early f
absolutely. predictable outcome? yes, absolutely. i predictable outcome? yes, absolutely. i think - predictable outcome? yes, absolutely. i think the i predictable outcome? 1 s: absolutely. i think the immediate cause of this was that framework agreement that secretary blink and was talking about. they have been trying to unify the rapid support forces, which i think many of your viewers will be familiar with from the war in dafur, and the sudanese armed forces. neither of these wanted to integrate with each other and give the upper hand, but they felt that they wanted it. since the coup in 2021, has been a power struggle between these two sides for who can control the future of sudan and i think, unfortunately, what we have seen as a repeat of the similar scenarios in south sudan and sundanese history today. we are seeinu a sundanese history today. we are seeing a number sundanese history today. we are seeing a number of sundanese history today. we are seeing a number of people
at least according to the administration, one was continuing support for ukraine. the other was new start, which is that control agreement that russia now says it is not pulling out of, but puttingen opt the shelf for awhile. that s great concern in the united states about that. and then the final thing we understand secretary blink talked about was paul whelan, who has been held by the russians. it s interesting. when you look at how the russians reported on that meeting, they said it was brief. basically, they just kind of blew it off and even the spokesperson for the prime minister said, no, they didn t talk about paul whelan. so i think what we re getting from this and from what is happening in russia is that presideutin is showing no sign changing his idea that he s
misunderstandings. it does seems these lines of communications are open now because secretary blink spoke directly with his counterpart about this balloon when telling the chinese he was going to postpone his trip. it is postponed, not cancelled. whether it is a weather balloon or spy balloon, it s a distraction from the long list of contentious issues that the the u.s. and china need to discuss when they get together including tensions over the democracy of taiwan, semi conductors and the necessity for cooperation on issues of global importance like climate change. and i m just curious in terms of the actual people in china r they aware of the story? are they talking about it? what are they saying? sdwl they are talking about it on social media, but the spin inside china is this is being blown out of proportion. this is not a major story.
economy but i m not going to answer any questions about anything else because we ll cover this. secretary blink blame for inflation, mr. president? do i take any blame for inflation, no. why not? it was already like that when i got here. jobs were hemorrhaging, inflation was rising, we weren t manufacturing a damn thing here. we were in real economic difficulty. that s why i don t. thank you. well, the president there with his comments after this extraordinary jobs report that was released this morning. i want to go to monica alba at the white house. monica, the president took one question, said he wanted to limit it to the economy so that we wouldn t cover anything else and give the economy its importance today. reporter: that s right, jose,