tom: it s the christmas season. which is according to andy williams the most wonderful time of the year. but not everyone is into that and they re tired of all of the good cheer but would it surprise you to know a new study find that declining invitations to holiday parties is actually good for you. many people say yes to invites when they want to say no. you see they re afraid their friend will be angry and cross them off future party lists. but researchers found, quote, people tend to exaggerate degree to which the person who issue invitation will focus on act of the invitee declining invitation as opposed to the thoughts that pass through their head before they decline. you get it right, it s old bit of wisdom you wouldn t so much about what other people thought of you. if you knew how seldom hay did there s a lot of demands on your time this time of the year. you have to look out for your mental health even if it makes you kind of a grinch. this woman hates holida
white house bid official, and the challenge now is to take on trump without making the base turn against him. these stories ahead on cnn news central. so, this just in. we got word that negotiators are meeting right now. this is ahead of the crucial meeting this afternoon between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. june 1st is now 10 days away, and this is the day that treasury secretary janet yellen says is a hard deadline that is ahead of the economic disaster that going to affect millions of americans like medicare and medicaid benefits and military salaries and other benefits at real risk. and now, many at capitol hill hounding their representatives, and that is the last we heard from house speaker kevin mccarthy. look, there is no agreement on anything. we have all said the peace on where we r and we are trying to find common ground to get this done. so right to manu raja on capitol hill. i understand that the staff level negotiators and members are
that s all coming up here on impact. the president of ukraine, volodomyr zelensky, is making a surprise visit to britain for only his second trip abroad since the russian invasion of his country almost a year ago. he is addressing the houses of parliament. let s take a look. cheering and applause mr president, welcome. not many people stood here today in this significant setting will realise that our friendship began on the 8th of october 2020, when you wear the first ever head of state that i met as speaker. we hit it off immediately with much laughter over an english afternoon tea and, of course, chorley cakes. we forged an instant bond, despite wearing masks and being socially distance at the opposite ends of a large table. because we were working out how to deal with covid. little did we know the relationship would grow in such turbulent times. on the 24th of february 2022, the second invasion of ukraine began. 0n the 8th of march 2022, there was another first for us both
there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust ukraine,
southern border in the last year. the new number tonight. our rachel scott asking the president, why is the border more overwhelmed under your watch? his answer. and the texas sheriff tonight launching a criminal investigation over the plane of migrants from texas that florida s governor ron desantis planned and sent to martha s vineyard. tonight, former president trump, whose team fought for a special master to review those documents seized at mar-a-lago, well, tonight, that special master now demanding answers from the trump team. a one point, saying, you can t have your cake and eat it, too. pierre thomas is here. the war in ukraine tonight. and with russia suffering those heavy losses, ukrainians pushing them back in several towns and communities. now vladimir putin s new plan to hold referendum. tonight, the white house calling it a sham. and both vladimir putin and president biden set to speak about this war tomorrow. back here at home tonight, the case that mad