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to restart the military drills? >> reporter: well, both president biden and president yun of south korea agreeing to begin discussions to expand these military drills between the united states and south korea. now this marks a dramatic shift from president bidens predecessor former president trump who not only scaled back but moved to scrap the exercisesal together, calling them too costly and provocative as he pursued this grand bargain diplomacy with kim jong-un. president trump met ...

me. im alex marquardt in today for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a important overseas trip for president biden as crises persist back home and around the world. president biden holding a bilateral meeting today with south korea president, the two leaders highlighting this strength of their partnership and alliance in the face of ongoing and nuclear missile threats from north korea. but it comes as american families struggle to feed their infant children. a crippling shortage has s...

>> president welcomes all ideas to protect consumers and make sure oil companies are not taking advantage of putins war and are competing fairly. no company should be engaging in unfair practices to hike up prices on american consumers press the president has said president putins actions are whats driving the price increase at the pump. >> spring wall street journal columnist dan henninger. so mary, bad news continues economically. the gas prices the signs of slowing consumer spending...

unverified information connecting trump to russia. the former president weighs in. >> and mr. webb with. >> hey, its not the nfl, but it is the first week of fumbles. watch this. >> nothing has changed on how we see the stock market. we do not -- thats not something that we keep an eye on every day. ♪ >> there you have it. how the white house did in her new role. back to you, joe. >> but first, the biden administration finally addressing the baby formula shortage months after the pro...

heading to south korea. his first trip to asia as president while pyongyang watches closely. and the taliban continues to roll back the rights of women in afghanistan. now forcing a choice between covering their faces or losing their on-air jobs. live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with john vause. >> a bill authorizing $40 billion in u.s. aid to ukraine is on its way to seoul, south korea, for president joe bidens signature. the aid package easily passed the u.s. senate o...

multiple times. shell join us live. and cnn goes one on one with the u.s. marine veteran trevor reed on his brutal imprisonment in russia and what it is like to finally be home. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im told it is friday. >> indeed it is. >> it is friday, may 20th. a short time ago, president biden kicked off his first visit to asia since taking office. he joined the new south korean president yoon seok-youl at a samsung semicon...

remarks here in south korea, president hailed the u.s./south korea relationship as a linchpin of peace and stability. trying to shore up the alliance with japan after his visit concludes here in south korea. he wants to bolster the relationship as a team when u.s. intelligence is warning of a heightened threat of a north korean missile and/or nuclear test, potentially while president biden is here in the region. certainly a moment of heightened tension. and president biden wants to sen...

top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. goold good to have you with me. im victor blackwell. plunging stocks, rising prices, recession fears. the s&p 500 entered bear market territory, dropping 20% from recent peaks. one bear market in the last 50 years was not accompanied by a recession. cost of living keeps rising, home prices are driving rents to a high. 17% from last year. gas prices are soaring. the national average, 4.59 per gallon, $0.30 more to fill up the tank than the day be...

>> that facility serving as a backdrop for bidens broader message. that robust u.s. alliances with its asian allies is key to a thriving global economy and security. >> so much of the future of the world is going to be written here in the indo-pacific over the next several decades. were standing at an inflection point in history where the decisions we made today will have far reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. >> the five-day trip through south korea, then...

trump had pulled the u.s. out of, so biden how do the opposite, seems childish. it seemed weird because there are not many international bodies more discredited than the world health organization, particularly after covid. it is a laughingstock. if theres one thing is not good at it is public health. since the very first cases of coronavirus in wuhan, the w.h.o. slavishly ran for the chinese government. first the w.h.o. claimed there was no evidence of human to human transmission of th...