live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. and thanks for joining us. joe biden leaves for rome later tonight where he and other g20 leaders will meet in person for the first time in more than two years. he has a busy schedule, but with climate legislation and other issues on hold in congress, it appears the president will be arriving in europe without a clear picture of what the u.s. plans to do. the russian and chinese leaders say they won t be there in person. without them, of course, it s question whether the rome summit can lead to meaningful action on climate, vaccines or anything else. he s expected to meet with pope francis on friday. the g20 summit will be held over the weekend. and on sunday, he heads to glasgow for the u.n. s cop-26 climate summit before returning to washington tuesday. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman joins us live from rome. good to see you, ben. so what all can we expect to come out of this g20 summit,
do you think you have enough of a framework to get progressives to support the infrastructure bill? yes. everybody s on board. you re on board, aren t you? the president joking everybody s on board, but there are still a lot of questions. you heard some from senator markey a short time ago. a lot of questions this morning as he is selling that. we ll continue to keep an eye on it. for now, we ll send it over to you in rome, jim. reporter: that s right. the president delayed his departure for rome to go to the hill, try to get members of his own party in board. in a matter of hours he ll arrive in italy for his first g-20 summit as commander in chief and the first time in two years the g-20 leaders have met face-to-face. but the president still an open question, does he arrive with large portions of his economic agenda in place? a big piece of that of course the climate agreement, which is crucial not just to the g-20 summit but the u.n. climate summit, which will fo
january 6th select committee. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, a deadly accident waiting to happen. that s the clearer picture emerging tonight following a press conference and court documents about the deadly shooting on the set of the movie rust in new mexico. the sheriff revealing he believes it because live round that killed a cinematographer on the set of alec baldwin s move kwiy and they suspect that was not the only real bullet there that day. we suspect that there were other live rounds but that s up to the testing. but right now, we are going to determine how those got there, why they were there because they shouldn t have been there. we would consider the live round a bullet live because it did fire from the weapon and, obviously, caused the death of mrs. hutchins and and injured mr. souza. this comes as new court documents reveal the gun handed to baldwin was not thoroughly checked. accordi
fully check alec baldwin s gun before handing it to the actor. how and why was it loaded with live ammunition? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we begin with the breaking news on the latest hail mary by the democrats in their frantic and so far failed efforts to reach a deal to advance the president s agenda. let s go right to our white house correspondent arlette saenz. there s a real sense of urgency by the white house to reach a deal before the president departs for overseas tomorrow morning. but tonight we re learning about another major concession to the president s spending package. give us all the late-breaking developments. this is a very big deal. paid family and medical leave was a key part of president biden s agenda and now appears it will not be included in the plan. the democrats had originally hoped for 12 weeks of paid family leave
Today, because that larger economic package is not moving at the same time. i m also told bernie sanders backs the house progressives position on this. did joe biden change any mind is unclear, but he talked for some time. it s unclear if he answered any questionsallayed any concerns. he wants the cowboys to get behind something he believes is essential for the party and the country. we ll see if the vote is a hope or reality. manu raju, thanks very much. nic robertson in rome, kaitlan collins. much more to report in the coming hour preparing for the g-20 in rome. erica, back to you. just ahead, the focus of the investigation into cinematographer halyna hutchins death. it s now narrowed down to two rust crew members, who officials are looking at today and what could prompt criminal charges. that s how much university of phoenix is committing