Across the globe. Well bring you insights into what voters and World Leaders are hoping to hearfrom the us president this evening. The speech marks a crucial moment in his presidency. This will be his third State Of The Union as president and last planned National Address before voters head to the polls this november. Withjust under eight months until election day, the us is preparing for a 2020 Rematch Betweenjoe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Its a match up that 48 say they feel negative about and 42 call depressing. Will President Biden be able to reassure voters hes best able to tackle the countrys issues and that the State Of The Union is still strong . We will hear all about but a little later. Well bejoined tonight by our experts, reporters, white house veterans and lawmakers attending the speech on capitol hill. First, lets go to our reporter Helena Humphrey live on capitol hill. This is one of the busiest nights on the hill. Of all of the knights of the year, what is
the battle for votes and mccarthy s first big test all happening right now on capitol hill. lawmakers meeting over this debt deal with some hard line republicans and the speaker isn t just fighting for support on his agreement. he could be fighting to keep his job. and moscow is rocked. drone attacks hitting residential buildings in the residential capital, at the same time kyiv is facing a bombardment overnight. we ll have the latest from the front lines. and this could turn your stomach a little bit. a new report from the cdc is highlighting how restaurant workers who handle food while they were sick themselves are actually one of the leading drivers of food borne illness outbreaks. we are following these developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. in just minutes, a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avert a catastrophic u.s. default will finally be in front of lawmakers. a cankey house committee is tak up the bill but all afternoon
there live. with eight days to go with a possible default, wall street is getting nervous again. stocks down again. will the markets get washington to act? welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s cut to the chase. what we re hearing in washington with chad pergram who has more. chad? good afternoon. kevin mccarthy reiterated today that people should not worry about their stocks. the path to an accord is unclear. the sides talks again today at the white house. i don t think there will be a default. i don t know how you blame republicans. we re the only ones that acted. so if the american public didn t if they get rewarded for not taking an action and reward ago problem, the democrats will win that award every day. mccarthy says he trusts janel yellen that early june is the deadline. some conservatives are not sold. some down played an economic catlism. there s not some catastrophic day of june 1. oh, we ve hit the limit. markets will get jittery. they go up and do
the a message to the ukrainian people that most of america stands with them. it was a message to russia and vladimir putin that the u.s. will continue to support ukraine militarily and otherwise. perhaps it was the a message for china. and other add adversary to not question america s willingness to defend democracy wherever it lives speaking of china. vladimir putin and xi jinping agreed to meet. joining us is dan hoffman. how do you assess the state of the war and the state of the region. we re tracking this horrific war of attrition with thousands of casualties on both sides. but really the story of the war is just the damage that russia has inflicted upon ukraine. deliberately targeting civilian neighborhoods and hospitals and maternity wards, that is why the ukraineanians are fighting on to force the russian out of their territory. but i think one story is that china is the big winner in this war right now, they are exploiting a weakened russia. which has been bloodied