Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden is willing to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin "at any time" to prevent a war in Ukraine, according to his top diplomat
and so the question, is jim, what happens from here? we still haven t heard from attorney general merrick garland or the department of justice on this. how are they going to handle it and will in fact an independent inspector general take over to investigate this? will potentially the former attorney general be called at some point to give testimony on what exactly happened here? this is just the beginning. it is, for sure. if he s called, will he listen? that s another broken precedent from the trump administration. do people pay attention to congressional subpoenas? thank you both. right now, there is a new deal proposed deal on the table of bipartisan group of ten senators, five democrats, five republicans, has announced a framework agreement on infrastructure. some specificity in there, not just big picture stuff. it does not include raising taxes. a senior biden administration official tells cnn the white house does believe that deal is worth exploring. cnn s manu raju is live
[sfx: rainstorm] comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. america is back. that is the message that president biden is speaking as he meets this morning with leaders of the g7 nations. the summit is part of president biden s first foreign trip as commander in chief and a chance to reassert america s place, he hopes, as a leader and defender of democracy on the world stage. for more, i m joined by new yorker staff writer and cnn global affairs analyst susan
reconciliation process. that means they can pass a bill which has 51 votes in the senate. but the key negotiator said there are not the votes to go it alone at the moment. because she wouldn t commit to supporting it, neither with joe manchin and other democrats in the caucus. so they have to go through this bipartisan process and also try to convince the left they don t get the priorities here, perhaps can you get it in the next vehicle. so a lot to go through before we can determine if this can become law. jim? goodness. we know you ll keep watching. thank you very much. thanks. still to come, president biden brings american diplomacy back to the world stage. why other g7 leaders are describing him as a breath of fresh air. plus, new concerns after two breakthrough cases of coronavirus emerge on a fully vaccinated cruise ship. the first cruise to sail from north america in a year. what passengers should know before they travel. that s ahead.
you can have great success rolling out the vaccine. the world is not really and america won t be back to business until the rest of the world is at a much different place than it is right now. the new numbers came out. they showed that covid-19 in 2021 is deadlier already than in all of 2020 and that s largely because of the rest of the world. so i feel like this is the most urgent international issue right now that there is. yeah. and viruses don t know borders, right? it s a global pandemic. susan glasser, thank you very much. thank you. coming up next, just a stunning abuse of power. new revelations that the justice department under former president trump targeted democratic lawmakers. who the president targeted himself publicly seizing data, that is the phone calls on themselves, their families, their staffers. what investigators were searching for and why democrats say it was no the just a political hbut in the words of