fox news alert president biden is wrapping up his time in japan giving along press conference that ended about 20 minutes ago. live team coverage with edward lawrence covering what biden can expect when he comes home. pete: they watched it so you don t have to let s start with peter doocy was in the press conference. the two things that they talk the most about was weapons for ukraine as they fight off the russian offensive and also what to do about a rising china in this part of the world. a big focus was economic but president biden got a question about chinese military aggression particularly their decision to turn off the military hotline that the secretary uses to talk to his counterpart. listen now president biden after days of china talk here in japan answer that one. we should have a hope in hotline at the bali conference president xi and i agreed and then the silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars worth of equipment over the united states and it got s
leaders at the white house to address the looming debt ceiling deadline as financial calamity moves one day closer to reality. in manhattan, nine jurors are deliberating in a trial against president trump brought by e. jean carroll. a 6-year-old boy wounded in a mass shooting. the only member of his family to survive. both his parents and 3-year-old brother slain while two young sisters, aging 8 and 11, are also killed. their mother in critical condition. just two of the families, some of the victims in the latest mass shooting involving an ar-15-style rifle. i will speak with gun safety advocate fred guttenberg whose daughter jamie died in 2018 in parkland. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. president biden will hold speaker mccarthy, leaders schumer and mcconnell and hakeem jeffriess for a meeting on the debt ceiling. it s not expected to produce any major breakthroughs with the nation weeks away from falling off a fiscal cliff. can they find a way
unrealistic. we cannot keep raising the debt ceiling. were in a situation domestically where we were all suffering. were spending more and more around the world and the current administration wants to continue and has no idea where we re going to stop. one of the ways to describe the difference between what the republicans want to do and simplify it in the democrat in joe biden wants to do they want to reduce the growth of spending and that s a democrat position in the republicans want to reduce spending. who gets the blame that seems to be a bit of the conversation that the president was having. who gets the blame? yes if the debt ceiling doesn t get negotiated. i believe the blame should go squarely on the people who were in power on the ones making the
the business community, telling them it would be a catastrophe if congress doesn t raise the debt limit. brian chung has more. the debt ceiling concerns the amount we owe as a nation. here is how much the u.s. treasury issued in debt. in congress, they set ceilings on the accumulation of that debt. it s $31 trillion, which we have blown through. it s important to note that the debt ceiling doesn t address how much we spend or where we spend. it s a cap on how much we are able to cover on bills we have wrapped up. what happens now? the treasury says we can probably only keep the lights on through june 1st. after that, we might be unable to pay the bills, at which point we may have to start choosing where we can keep the money flowing. social security, medicare, food stamps might be at risk. then there s the risk of our reputation. the u.s. takes pride in its