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im richard louis, in for yasmin osullivan. canceled on christmas eve -- travelers scrambling after a wave of flight cancellations, backing those in a rush to get home for the holidays. we are live at one of the airport to the hardest. we are following the breaking news out of gaza. five hostages in hamas tunnels have been found. we will go to tel aviv for the latest on that. this whole election interference case should be stopped in its tracks. this comes after the supreme court refuse...

hear in the next few minutes? >> reporter: they are walking into the room where they will have this bilateral meeting, this is at a hotel here in hiroshima. the president there shaking the prime ministers hand. and this is real an important moment. u.s. officials say that they view prime the prime minister a political ally in the surprising role that he has taken over the war in ukraine and applying sanctions on russia that havent been a guarantee. so you hear a lot from american offic...

President. so he really did want to maintain this stop. the other stops he was able to cancel, but this is one that he really did want to come to here in hiroshima. >> and i think it is worth reminding people it wasnt very long ago that it was called the g8 because russia was invited as a courtesy to this group. of course after the invasion of crimea, russia was expelled from the g8 and it became the g7 again. lets listen in for a minute. we have the japanese prime minister making remarks. >> tr...

This summit only takes place every seven years so i think that you will see china playing a significant role. of course president biden wants the leaders to coalesce to counter beijings military and economic aggressions. and you have seen that the backdrop is quite significant. that hasnt always been easy. there are significant differences in how they want to approach china. and so heading out of the summit president biden will really want to emerge with sort of a sense of cohesion among the gro...

About ukraine as well. they are expected to announce new sanctions really trying to close some of the loopholes that exist that have allowed certain russian entities to evade sanctions. and they will talk about the actual battlefield in ukraine as ukraine prepares for the counteroffensive. the real hope among the leaders is that ukraine will be able to regain territory that will provide it leverage at an eventual negotiating table. of course where and when that happens remains to be seen. but th...

So thank you again for having me here today and we look forward to the next several days . >> and was going to see if the president was going to take any questions. but a pretty tightly choreographed walk down the hallway. so now they will close the doors and have a meeting together. what do you think will be the presidents top priorities in the summit, kevin? >> reporter: yeah, i think he does want to emerge with consensus about the china issue. i think because we are in asia, because the conce...

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Trip. the president and his team are very committed to talking to americas friends and being there in this time of uncertainty vis-a-vis china. >> reporter: yeah. and all the discussions about how the trip would proceed. the g7 was the stop that they really did want to maintain. the president really wanting to get around the table with these other leaders to ensure that they are on the same page. when it comes to ukraine or china. certainly the debt ceiling issue will come up. there is no more p...

Hear in the next few minutes? >> reporter: they are walking into the room where they will have this bilateral meeting, this is at a hotel here in hiroshima. the president there shaking the prime ministers hand. and this is real an important moment. u.s. officials say that they view prime the prime minister a political ally in the surprising role that he has taken over the war in ukraine and applying sanctions on russia that havent been a guarantee. so you hear a lot from american officials how p...

Troubling poll numbers as his agenda is stalling right now. there is little hope of his sweeping spending plan passing the senate before the end of the year as well as voting rights legislation. so what is his partys plan? were going to ask the number one two democrat in the u.s. senate, dick durbin. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> lets get state to the ...