you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let s go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that s going to happen any time now? any update on that? reporter: there s every expectation that this call will happen. it hasn t happened yet according to a source i spoke with half an hour ago. president biden when he arrived at the white house earlier this afternoon did say that the intent of this call was to, quote, dot the is and cross the ts. when asked weahether there were any sticking point, he said none. throughout the day, w
i m poppy harlow. and i m jim scuitto, live from the united nations, where minutes from now president biden will deliver his global address. hanging over this assembly are new and alarming threa from russia. a major public escalation in the war in ukraine, as world leaders meet here at the u.n. this is a harrowing time for ukraine, for europe and the wo world. president putin announced he s calling up 300,000 reservists. he also said he s not bluffing. let s begin on the ground in ukraine. nick paton walsh is in the eastern ukraine. this is not the first time the russian president has threatened nuclear weapons. ukraine would be the center of this, what s the reaction. reporter: there always have deep concerns, but also a reality is setting in, possibly a leader in defeat and possibly using rhetoric where he doesn t have capacity, but it doesn t reduce the fear this was essentially response there have been none, but also key one of the words he said was using the
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, nick paton walsh, we saw momentsal imaging of president biden entering the united nations building as he prepared just minutes from now to address the assembly. we ll continue to cover this. poppy? thank you, guys, very much. we ll get back to that as soon as the president starts speeching. ahead, credit card companies changing the way they code purchases of guns, and the attorneys general are warning them not t to do it, and threatening legal acaction. (vo) give your business an advantage right now,