good morning todd and ashley. biden s national security advisor met the top advisor in vienna who said america wants to move beyond the incident. where they lasted that chinese spy machine out of the sky. we spoke to the press on air force one on the way to japan. common concerns and issues associated with the policies and practices of the people s republic of china that will come up and i think you will see alignment and convergence around fundamental principles of our approach to the people s republic of china. president biden will be a japan through sunday with meetings. the trip was supposed to include a trip to papua new guinea and australia but the unresolved debt ceiling will cut this trip short. the president spoke before catching his flight to japan. i m confident we will get the agreement on the budget and america will not default and every leader in the room understands the consequences if we fail to pay our bills and it would be catastrophic for the americ
from the war zone including reports of explosions in russian occupied territory. also tonight, a serious setback for talks on raising the federal debt limit and avoiding a catastrophic default. with negotiations now on hold, i ll ask the former treasury secretary larry summers what the president and the congress add leadership should do next as time for reaching a deal is running out. and new insight tonight into senator dianne feinstein s health and mindset after new confirmation of medical complications she faced. i ll speak with her former senate colleague barbara boxer amid growing questions about senator feinstein s ability to serve. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with two of the most pressing matters for president biden as he meets with key allies in japan. the war in ukraine, and the threat of the united states defaulting on its debt. cnn s chief whit
fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements, just some of the charges against congressman george santos. after spending the day in federal custody, he just pleaded not guilty to 13 counts. so what will speaker mckcarthy do? a major test at the southern border. patrols encountered more than 10,000 migrants on tuesday alone as pandemic restrictions come to an end, our reporters are speaking live with those families desperate to get cross. plus president biden hitting the road to sell his debt ceiling message saying america is not a dead beat nation. new details on ongoing negotiations with republicans as we close in on a crucial default deadline. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. new york republican congressman george santos has pleaded not guilty to the 13 federal charges hes faces in court. prosecutors say his bond is set at $500,000, though his travel will be limite
the jury finding trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarding carroll $5 million. what would you want to say to him? i said it to joe tacopina yesterday. he came over to congratulate me. he put out his hand. i said, he did it and you know it. this hour, disgraced republican congressman george santos now in custody at a long island courthouse facing federal charges, including wire fraud and money laundering and renewed calls to resign from members of his own party. white house and congressional staff negotiators working around the clock ahead of friday s next white house debt ceiling meeting after tuesday s first session ended with angry accusations from both sides. i think he knows that default would be disastrous. and i think he knows it couldn t pass in congress. it s dead on arrival. i didn t find progress in this meeting. we will get back together on friday and hopefully the president then can change the path of the last 97 days. good day. i m a
deal. republican south carolina congresswoman nancy mace who is looking for both parties to settle this mess right now. welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto, this is your world. we begin with jackie with more drama surrounding the president s big announcement. jacqui, we saw you at the white house press briefing a short time ago. didn t see that you got any questions in. yeah, it s been a hot second since february 27, by my count. quite a long time. we will keep trying. even more broadly, you know, the press corp as a whole didn t get a lot of answers about what went in to the president s personal decision making with this re-election campaign. and we also don t know where to direct those questions. the press secretary was not able to give us a specific person to talk to because a lot of those staffing decisions are still not finalized. however, amid a lot of looming questions about the president s age, this question to the press secretary seemed to trip