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we fail to pay our bills. we re going to come together because there s no alternative. we have to do the right thing for the country. we have to move on. those were president biden s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations just before he took off for the g7 summit in japan. we ll have the very latest on the budget talks and the president s trip overseas. he has arrived. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. because right now these are indeed live pictures from hiroshima, japan, where president biden is meeting with japanese prime minister kishida ahead of their bilateral meeting. g7 leaders are gathering there where they will likely focus on the war in ukraine and tensions in asia. the president, of course, had announced he was cutting short his planned trip to the pacific, no longer visiting papau new guinea or australia in order to get back on sunday to continue those debt ceiling negotiate asians. we ll bri ....
washington tomorrow, he will be under the microscope as republicans take control of the house. brian style who sits on the house financial services committee is here on how the gop plan to hold the bidenom icadministration accountable for its economic agenda. house republicans are prepared to investigate the close relationship between big tech it the federal government. here is maria with the soon to be chairman of the house intelligence committee turnersman mike o subpoena twitter filesesome are you going to subpoena this information so that you have this in your purvie are you going to subpoena this information so you have this in your purview to go through and are you going to subpoena the? players who were doing this. we ar e definitely pursuingd, the department of justice and also the fbi. that january 6 committee has s establishehod some great legal precedent. a difficult time trying toents prevent those documents. i think that it will show a very troubling patt ....
President who s been working on these talks decided to travel to the president i think in large part so he could continue to brief the president on the debt ceiling talks. i think the hope is when the president returns to washington next week he ll be able to usher in a final negotiation and get this over the finish line. it s certainly something that s just really hanging over these meetings. and one more for you, ken. just give us a sense what went into the decision to cancel the back half of the trip. we know this administration has been trying to pivot to the pacific to asia for a while. they wanted to have a show of force, if you will, a show of commitment to try and counter the influence there. talk to us what went into the decision to pull-down that part of the trip and frankly how disappointed is the white house they had to? well, i think they re certainly disappointed. he was going to become the first sitting president to visit a ....
Personally involved via the phone and then back in person once he is here in d.c. he is set to return sunday night, and we ll keep you posted on what happens there in hiroshima as the day goes on. those are, again, live pictures from japan right now. back here in washington congressional democrats are continuing to craft alternative options to find a fix for the debt ceiling. from the house side they ve begun circulating a petition that would force a vote on the clean debt ceiling increase if a majority of the members sign onto it. while democrats do believe that all 213 of their members will sign onto the bill, they still need five republicans to joan. as of right now that looks unlikely, however things could change as the deadline moves closer. on the senate side a group of senators has been urging biden to invoke the 14th amendment to force a clean debt ceiling increase. the section essentially says the u.s. must always pay its debts and that responsibility should never be questione ....
We re looking at a really cold morning. we re looking at temperatures at or below freezing in so many spots you need to coat this morning. jonathan, you probably thought that in d.c., too. 37 million americans impacted by frost advisories, freeze warnings. temperatures at or below freezing in many, many spots. 32 degrees in syracuse at the freezing mark, 35 in albany. below freezing in and major cities really chilly this morning as well. we re going to keep it cold today but a really nice day many spots in the northeast, lots of sunshine and dry. d.c. 6 degrees below normal, just at 70 degrees this afternoon. 64 in new york city. we re going to moderate a bit tomorrow but still cool. 72 degrees in philadelphia and still below what is typical this time of year and by the end of the week looking much warmer and temperatures into the upper 70s in pittsburgh and by monday 77. michelle grossman, thank you ....