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head back because its what five or six, seven in the morning there, and our teams are going to continue working. now, we have had a packed few days here at hiroshima and you think we have had productive meetings at the g7 summit. we also held the quad meeting in hiroshima rather than australia and important bilateral discussions with prime minister kishida of japan, prime minister albanese of australia and president zelenskyy of ukraine as well as the prime minister of india. this is m...

Anyway. so thats the context. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] . >> thats under negotiation. i thought you said meaning would i sell some -- the answer to that is under discussion. jim, "new york times." >> reporter: hi. mr. president, thank you. you speak a lot at these summits about the power of democracies to solve big problems. but im curious in these meetings with world leaders how are you explaining the possibility that american democracy could cause a global financial crisis if the deb...

>> first of all, it would be very serious circumstance if we didnt pay our debt for the first time in 230 years. that would be a serious problem. so far, there has very little discussion -- and they all know whats going on -- about whether or not we are going to default on our debt. now number two. number three, i cant guarantee that they wouldnt force a default by doing something outrageous. i cant guarantee that. number four, im looking at the 14th amendment as to whether or not we have the au...

Concluded. thanks, everybody. >> president biden there at the end of the g7 summit there in hiroshima making some news, talking about the 14th amendment, which dozens of democrats in the house and senate have asked him to invoke to avoid default. he of course talked about china and ukraine and russia, their war as well, making a lot of headlines here. we have a full spate of reporters and analysts with us to go through what the president just said. >> we heard a huge chunk of that news conferenc...