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the top of the hour here on your friday morning. im erica hill. >> im jim sciutto. there are deep concerns as chinas president xi jinping is preparing to meet with vladimir putin in moscow, and the summit is not a surprise, but washington is on edge to see if china makes any move in particular to provide weapons for the war in ukraine. >> and this st. patricks day guest in washington, and it is irelands prime minister. and also, the wild week on wall street comes to a close, and the ...

Head on a swivel. >> we were taking off at dulles at runway 30 which crosses the runways that we just used to land. and the air control tells us to cross those to take off. >> cleared to take off. >> here we are, runway 30 is on the pavement and 30 is on the heading indicator and a down check up. powering to 20. rolling. you want to go quick for that guy to the center. >> my normal flying is typically from a small country airport and not as busy and no air traffic control tower, and what is to n...

Wanting to get ahead of the potential activation and making sure that these units have the time to prepare if, and only if, theyre deployed. and then you have -- when will we know success. again, there has been no activation. so there is no mission assigned. so it is very difficult to give you a up check or a down check on what equates success. what sths about, though, is reassurance to our nato allies and weve been talking about that for quite sometime. that were going to be ready, were going t...