tonight with new developments on two key countries for this country and the free world, how to avoid default in debt and how to ensure that russia s invasion of ukraine is rolled back. president biden at the g7 summit is grappling with both. on ukraine, a milestone, with president zelenskyy due to travel from ukraine to japan this weekend. president biden gave his okay for a joint allied effort to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighters and other advanced aircraft. and on the debt ceiling, it looks like talks, which the president was being updated on remotely, are back on again. they resumed tonight just hours of kevin mccarthy s republican negotiators called a halt to them earlier today. we have correspondents spanning the globe tonight. phil mattingly traveling with the president in japan. what is the latest you re hearing from white house officials about debt ceiling negotiations? reporter: you know, anderson, as you point out, there was a pause, house republican negotia
in prison. it s time now for ac 360 . tonight president biden issued a warning about the fate of democracy itself. we ll get senator bernie sanders take on it. the president began by talking about the attack on paul pelosi, the alleged plot to kidnap and ma am house speaker nancy pelosi. he framed the issue as the shared and urgent need to fight for the american survival of the experiment. all americans, regardless of party, to meet this moment of national and generational importance, we must vote knowing what s at stake, not just the policy of the moment, but institutions that have held us together as we sought a more perfect union. the extreme maga element of the republican party, which is a minority of the party, but its driving force. it s trying to succeed where they failed in 2020, to suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself. that means denying your right to vote and deciding whether your vote even counts. instead of waiting until the
Forward, whether it s patriot missile systems or tanks, they ve been willing to evolve. i think it underscores what i hear from national security officials inside the administration quite often is kind of the president s theory of the case in terms of the coalition. if the coalition is moving towards a specific direction, even if the u.s. military advisers say they don t believe it s the best battlefield weapons system or they re concerned about escalatory effects, the president is likely to move in that direction as well. that appears to be what has happened here. there s still skepticism about the battlefield effect, and it s clear the u.s. doesn t have plans to send f-16s from its stock. that s been the animating feature of president biden over the past few months. jill, as we await this expected ukrainian counteroffensive, which may be underway, we ve seen squabbles break out even between groups fighting on the same side with russia, the ongoing war of wards with the wagner found
In in defensive positions behind concrete, deep in the ground, if you target the weapons successfully against ukrainian forces, you might be able to minimize that effect on trhe russian forces. on the other hand, the russians might be willing to risk those forces to achieve a dominant battlefield effect and impact from these nuclear weapons strikes. do you think this is , i mea, in the realm of what is the danger of this do you think? the chance of this? i think it s a possibility. i think we ll get some warning of this. and when we get the warning, we ve got to step up, again, the efforts to persuade the russians not to do it. but the claiming of these four regions as part of russia, that would fit russian doctrine if the ukrainians were coming in there to seize that territory and if they were successful or about to be successful in doing so. thank you.
Use a nuclear device unless they were going to go after a specific road junction or factory or energy plant. but if they re going after military forces, no, you wouldn t use a single nuclear device. you would use multiple devices, a dozen, two dozen. and you would wait for the ukrainians to concentrate their forces, and then you would fire a pulse of these weapons out across several miles. and that way you try to achieve a real battlefield effect. one, no. one is a warning. it s a political significance. 20, 30 weapons. that could do serious damage to ukrainian forces, let s say, if they were amassing to make an attack. if they re amassing near russian forces, would that not also have the possibility of hurting russian forces as well? sure. but if you give the russian forces warning, if they were dug