welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
[ applause ] [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction. gracious and everlasting god, as we depart, inspired by the a powerful and long overdue honor at the white house at this hour. good day. i m peter alexander in for my friend andrea mitchell. we have been watching president biden awarding the medal of honor to paris davis for gallantry during the vietnam war. he was one of the first black officers to lead a special forces team in combat. dragged his fellow soldiers to safety, despite suffering multiple wounds and grenade fragments during a 1965 raid. an honor that is decades overdue coming to fruition in the east room there at the white house. we have been following breaking news from south carolina. convicted attorney alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a powerful preamble, the judge clifton newman, sentencing the lawyer this morning after a jury spent fewer than three hours deliberating last night before findi
visit poland, wasn t it? that was due to be in the next couple of days. this is all ahead of the anniversary of the war on ukraine. let s get to nic, he joins us here at the desk. i mean, obviously, this was out of the blue because of the massive security concerns. traveling overseas, it s not the first time that the president has done this, traveling without full disclosure what s happening. very tightly held information. very important for ukraine that the u.s. president should go there. remembering it wasn t so long that president zelenskyy himself visited the white house. that was when the white house committed to tanks which was a big moment because it allowed and paved the way for other nations to commit their tanks to ukraine. so, looking for what was said, what was discussed, what was announced but the symbolism, of course, is there, president biden visiting ukraine just a couple days ahead of the anniversary, the first anniversary, of russia s invasion of ukraine.
united states or at least not able to keep up with the demand. these are pictures right now of trucks delivering the supply that was expected to be flown to the united states later today. the department of defense basically assisting a european company that s come forward offering about 1.5 million bottles of baby formula. what s important to mention here is that in this precious shipment of baby formula, we can also expect some of those specialty formulas for children who perhaps have special dietary needs, certainly something parents have been wanting to see. it will be a welcome sight. an important perspective, it s still just 1.5 million bottles when you have millions of infants in the united states that require this kind of nutrition. so a lot of parents, as they take in these very important pictures and no doubt extremely grateful to see this kind of action being taken, many parents are still somewhat skeptical, though, and hopeful that they will begin to see the real i
It was not in any record i july 25th call. And this is consistent with the reported comments from received. But when you did see. Ambassadors volker and taylor. After the zelensky meeting, i yes, i saw that in september, also met with zelenskys senior correct. So on this continuum, the aide, andre yermak. Beginning of the continuum begins on may 23rd when the president instructs you to talk I Dont Recall the specifics of our conversation, but i believe the issue of investigations was to rudy . Correct. And you understood that as a probably a part of that agenda direction by the president that you needed to satisfy the or meeting. Concerns that Rudy Giuliani would express to you about what also, on july 26th, shortly the president wanted in ukraine . After our kiev meetings, i spoke not to me. By phone with President Trump. To the entire group, volker, perry and myself, correct. The white house, which has now, in your opening finally, finally shared certain statement you confirmed that