Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to Climate Change to recent cyberattacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for rusamericans detained in russian. There will not be a joint news conference. Our team is covering every angle. We begin coverage with cnn chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. Tell us whats happening right now. We were
Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to Climate Change to recent cyberattacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for rusamericans detained in russian. There will not be a joint news conference. Our team is covering every angle. We begin coverage with cnn chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. Tell us whats happening right now. We were
earlier today, despite objections from china. mccarthy stressed the need to speed up arms deliveries to taiwan. china, which has long considered taiwan as part of its country, denounced the meeting, accusing the us of seeking taiwanese independence. it comes on the heels of other high profile summits, including then speaker of the house nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan last year. speaking after the meeting, mccarthy responded to warnings from china of escalating tensions. well, my first message to china, there is no need for retaliation. the one thing i will say to china, at no time, ims speaker of the house, there is no time that china is going to tell me where i can go and who can speak to, whether you be so all you befriend. the california visit is not the first stop on president tsai s trip. last week, she flew to new york where she met with three us senators. tsai then made her way to central america for official visits to guatemala and belize, two of taiwan s few allies on
it s the top of the hour in cnn newsroom. we re following multi-. concerns about that chinese spy balloon hovering over the u.s. secretary blinken just postponed his stop in china. the pentagon is about the size of three buses. it s huge. it was spotted soaring over montana at 60,000 feet. just moments ago the balloon was spotted over columbia, missouri. the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area. despite growing calls to shoot it down, for now president biden is opting against that. the chinese are saying it s a weather balloon that blew off course. we re aware of the statement. the fact is we know it s a surveillance balloon. i can t be more specific than that. we know the balloon has violated u.s. air space and international law which is unacceptable. we ve conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. john miller is here with us, cnn s intelligence analyst and kylie atwood. tell us abo
numbers. h is now reporting 2 million encounters with illegal immigrants so far this year. more than five times the amount they had when president trump was in office. we have also just learned that agents have just arrested 78 suspected terrorists at the border. which is more than triple the five years combined. but democrats are talking about that at all. they are preoccupied instead with the 48 migrants that went to the posh and ritzy island of martha s vineyard. and now a democratic texas, is launching an investigation into those flights. desantis pointed out that hypocrisy in that. i believe that they were preyed upon, came out of the state and preyed upon these people. load them with promises of a better life which is what they are looking for to just be exploited and hoodwinked into making this trip to florida and then onward to martha s vineyard to for what i believed to be nothing more than posturing medical posturing to make a point. you had 50 giant texas in a