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our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom we re having a wonderful time. everything is going well. nothing has been resolved in this negotiation. so let s stop the political games. let s get down. we only have 15 days to go. house has overridden the governor s veto and the bill becomes law. should we be worried about this for our elections? my worst fears are that we cause significant harm to the world. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, may 17th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the pressure of the debt standoff has the president offering his plans for the g7 summit. joe biden will cut his trip short in order to get back as the default line creeps closer. the u.s. has until june 1 to raise its borrowing limit. and the latest round of talks between the republicans and the white house ....
House and the senate. We know that the leaders in the house, speaker paul ryan, the leader were on the train. They are okay. But the tragic news today that theres one american confirmed dead. Somebody who was traveling on the truck that the train hit. And we also know that there was one person who was critically injured and taken to an area hospital who was also traveling in the truck. We also know now that congressman jason lewis of minnesota was transported to a hospital. We have a photo of him with his neck in a brace being treated by medical percesonnel. We dont know at this point the extent of his injuries. We heard from an aid previously there was one member of congress who was hurt who was standing up when this accident occurred. Everybody who was on the train felt a jolt, especially those traveling near the front of the train. There were laptops, cell phones went fly iing. As you point out, many members had their spouses, children,
guard. Then also should have had gates. We can ....
meanwhile the u.s. president is confidence confident negotiations will lprogress. jeremy diamond reports. reporter: president biden emerged from the negotiations saying that the discussions were productive and that they are making progress towards a deal that could avoid the u.s. potentially heading towards defaults. of course there has been some progress in these negotiations that have been held mostly at the staff level in the days leading up to the meeting. talk about a potential spending cap and other areas of potential agreement between democrats and republicans. but make no mistake, there are still huge gaps between the two sides and some major sticking points including for example on the notion of work requirements for some of the safety net programs. disagreement between the two sides on that. and amid some of this progress but also the major sticking points that remain, president biden canceling the second portion of his foreign trip. he is still schedule d to go to japan ....
About respect for the united states. the men and women of the military. is it? no, it s about respecting the first amendment and understanding people s experiences in this country. when i hear the national anthem, i stand at attention, cover my heart, but i m a white man with privilege. a a lot of people in this cocou have not had the same privilege that i have. everybody reacts differently to what this country has done or hasn t done for em. i think right to protest, they put the first amendment first for a reason and the president wants to ignore it and other amendments in the constitution and force people to view things and act and speak the way he tells them to. not what this country is about. mayor, of course, the white house claims that last week, 81 member of the eagles were schedule d to attend. what would have been today s event. then they say they were told only ten, fewer than ten, actually, would show up. ....
And their children and staffs. if that s what people still want to do. wh that train stops in charlottesville. you describe this as a working vacation. what s on the agenda as far as we know it? sure, the working agenda is a number of seminars, breakout sessions like you might see at any kind of corporate conference. they are talking about infrastructure with the transportation secretary. there s going to be a session with polling group to talk about how republicans can best go sell the tax reform plan that they passed last year. when they go pack out to the midterms. a will the of this is forward looking in that way. it s more party specific than the work they can do on the hill about elections. and about looking ahead to november. so there s a lot of those types of conversations and those types of working meetings and things like that that happen throughout the kourls of these days. tomorrow there s supposed to be a big lunch with the president who is schedule d to be on the ....