game-changer. russian officials meanwhile warned western countries that they would ruin, rather run colossal risks if they supply ukraine with f-16s. but white house officials are saying they got assurances that ukraine will avoid potential escalations of the war. we have had multiple conversations with ukrainians about the risk of escalation here. nobody wants to see world war iii. and we have made it clear that we re not gonna encourage or ukraine to strike inside russian territory. so we ve had that discussion with ukrainians, we have had it with respect to fighter aircraft. we are confident they will live up to their commitments. more on the presidents trip in a moment, back in washington, the white house is blasting congressional lawmakers over the debt ceiling deadlock. accusing republicans of holding the economy hostage. talks between both parties started, paused, restarted and ended with no indication of whether they will resume. , president biden was briefed this
peter, the fact that president zelenskyy is there and meeting with president biden, and other leaders, biden, tomorrow, i m told, how significant is his presence? let s see where this is. happening it s hiroshima. i, mean given its history, what does it say to russia and the rest of the world that he is there. he s having these high-level meetings. it s two, things his physical presence here at the g7. of course he has talked to a lot of these leaders separately who are but to make this journey all the way to asia since the war began, it s the first. it s a big personal testament of his commitment and desire to be part of this discussion. it s also very striking to remember that this is a club that used to include russia. putin used to be a member of this, club the g8. until president obama and the leaders at that time expelled him for the original encouragement into
Latest republican challenging donald trump for the gop 2024 nomination. with the big announcement expected next week from florida governor, ron desantis. joining me now, kurt former house gop oversight committee spokesperson, now l.a. times contributor, and democratic strategist. and alencia johnson, former senior adviser to president biden s 2020 campaign, now chief impact officer at the ten 63 west broad agency. welcome, both of you. kurt, you first hear. trump and desantis already the two biggest names on the gop side. how much will an official declaration by desantis change the race? i don t think it ll change much at all. you ve seen up to this point, trump has just been unloading on desantis, launching multi million dollar avalanche of attacks against him. to this point, it seems to have worked, i don t think i recall a candidate officially entering a presidential contest with as
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So in a, fact they are putting out a tough statement today. the president, i, mean it s kind of a mix. message the communications director is attacking extreme maga priorities and attacking republicans for only caring about the rich and not the poor in these talks. an hour later the president comes out and says, well this is all just kabuki, it s all theater, it s all posturing for the sake of negotiations. it is what it is because we have the country have seen this before, and we re not going to get to the actual solution, whatever it is, until we get closer to the deadline because washington so far has shown itself to be incapable of coming to a solution on any big issue unless there s a deadline looming and cliff that they re about to head over. so we re probably a week or so away, getting to wherever we might end up getting. do you have a sense, peter, who has got the advantage in the negotiations right? now is it mccarthy republicans? is it biden and democrats? i m not sur