st the far enough away that between here and washington, d.c. they stop to refuel in alaska. and so it s going to be a while until he gets back with home. a big part of the reason they came to hiroshima, the leader of the world s seven is largest economies, is to figure out what to do about a rising china, especially in this region. and the president got a question about chinese military actions, particularly the lack of contact there has been between general lloyd austin and his counterpart now that a hotline has been down, and the president had a fascinating answer where he explained why he thinks that things are so cool wean the u.s. and they that right now. we should have an open9 hotline. at the bali conference, that s what president xi and i agreed we were going to do and be with on k. and hen this silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars worth of spying equipment was flying over the united states, and it got shot down and everything changed. in terms of talki
the strength to win. martha: so he s on the ground in crucial battlegrounds next week. iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. we have all the angles covered this hour. lara trump is here and chris coons is here, the national co chain for president biden s campaign and a panel of gop voters to respond. first, our presidential politics panel up top for their fresh reaction to this. salina, columnist from the washington examiner and mike huckabee, former presidential candidate and ken cuccinelli, a former dhs official under trump but now he s the founder of the never back down pac supporting ron desantis. so ken, let s start with you. a lot of reaction today. a couple of different ways that people are looking at this. some are saying it was a missed opportunity and a glitch. others saying they re impressed by the number of people trying to get on to twitter. do you wish you did this differently? in the super pac, we don t get to describe that. the breaking of twitter, as
yeanjanetyellen says governmentn out of cash june 5th. make payments of $130 billion to medicare, social security and veterans programs in early june. but then the government will only have what she termed, quote: an extremely low level of resources. it was another day without a deal. here we are, night after night after night and the pressure is more, the consequences are greater. we recognize that. we know details are thornier. workman dates for people to receive some federal said a flash point. republicans and democrats will not move. white house very difficult on this issue. and i will tell you, it s critical. it continues to be a very candid conversation about how we re going to move forward if we re going to be able to come together and ultimately get a deal. republicans say they are within the window of getting a deal. anxiety on global capitals who look to washington. at the time of significant uncertainty, we do not self-inflicted injury to those economy al
ongoing threat to democracy. and in ukraine cnn is speaking with the anti-putin rich shan fighters claiming responsibility for cross border attacks. they say they re using american military vehicles during the raids. we ll get reaction from a key white house official, john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin with new ve developments in the special counsel s criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents. josh, tell us what you and your colleagues are now learning. right, wolf. what we re learning is that one day before federal authorities came to mar-a-lago last june to pick up classified documents in return for a subpoena that video employees, two employees of the former president in mar-a-lago, moving boxes back into the storage room. as you remember, when the feds arrived at mar-a-lago, trump s team said, come with us to the storage r
hey, hey, everybody. it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. the battle for the white house will welcome a long-awaited newcomer today, ron desantis, after months of speculation and campaign style events, the florida governor will make it official tonight on twitter with none other than elon musk. will the unusual rollout help or hurt the soon to be candidate? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. and then what about the other elephant in the room, donald trump, the former president already telling desantis to get a, quote, personality trait as he puts it. plus, south carolina, set to become the latest state to ban abortion after six weeks making it virtually impossible to get an abortion across a huge portion of the south. and later on, new details on the 19-year-old who drove a u-haul truck into a white house barrier. more on his interviews with police as he s set to make a court