have hit a snag over cuts to discretionary spending and the setback is dashing hopes of a potential deal by the weekend. john: meanwhile, president biden is backing a joint effort with allies to train ukrainian pilots to fly f-16s. lindsey graham on what that could mean for the war in ukraine and we ll ask him about the impact of the stalled debt talks. sandra: chad pergram is live on capitol hill, and peter doocy is on the ground in japan with the president. is the u.s. sending jets or just training the pilots? what are we hearing here? for now, it s training in europe. and the training over the coming months, coalition of countries participating in the effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide and who will provide them, it does represent a softening of president biden s positioning softening, earlier this year could be summarized with just one word. he said no, that seems to be possibly changing on the ground here in hiroshima, presi
gender-afirming care for most minors. cnn s eva in kent in live in north dakota and i wonder how else did burgum try to make his case in his announcement? well, jim, he spent the speech extolling the values of small town life and grew up in a tiny town of arthur just about 40 minutes away from here in fargo and he suggested that that upbringing prepared him for the white house. but you get a sense that he s not eager to fight these cultural battles. you talked about transgender rights and abortion before, legislation that he passed in that vein but that wasn t the focus. he said the economy is the number one issue. take a listen. the economy needs to be the absolute top priority. every small business owner and every family in our country is feeling the corrosive hidden
could be summarized with just one word. he said no, that seems to be possibly changing on the ground here in hiroshima, president biden tour add peace park near the spot where the nuclear bomb attended in 1945, senior officials want to be crystal clear about the purpose of the trip. not to say sorry for dropping a nuclear weapon. there was no apology by the president, that wasn t the focus. focus was paying respects and more to the point, the purpose here in hiroshima is the future. especially the future in ukraine with the jets announcement and also the tightening of loopholes of sanctions that russians have apparently been using to evade
the power of the presidency, the power of the american military. it s the kind of thing that folks our age i remember very well from the bush years and the early obama years of what it means to have a president who is seen as a strong commander in chief and president biden partly because of covid, partly because of just other international forces has just not had a whole lot of opportunities to play that card. it s a powerful one. you can tell in the photos that there s sort of a kinship there between president biden and president zelenskyy. it hasn t always been a smooth relationship, let s be honest. he s wanted war aid and so forth from the u.s. but president biden invited zelenskyy to come and you could just see, they like each other. the white house says that that more aid wasn t the focus of the conversation that they had, it was the focus of what zelenskyy asked congress for but not the focus of what they talked about yesterday but when it does come to the blank check commen
massive spending bill. thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us with and the ones you may be willing to decide on. your money is not charity. it s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. cnn s manu raju joins us from capitol hill. so, manu, how is zelenskyy s speech being received by lawmakers? reporter: there is strong support to continue to provide aid. that s one reason why $45 billion in aid has been rolled into the larger bill to keep the government open. we expect that to be approved by the senate today probably even the house later tonight. but senator mitch mcconnell for one, big proponent of this funding, the republican leader telling our colleagues last night it s nice to have something here at the end of the year that we all actually can agree on but there is not all agreement within the republican party. in fact, there is a faction that