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US President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) welcomed the leaders of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) for a historic US-ASEAN Special Summit, held for the first time in Washington to re-affirm the US commitment to Southeast Asia and underscore the importance of US-ASEAN cooperation.

The question before us is, what role america will play as this story unfolds. >> cnns senior state department producer live for news washington in advance of the presidents speech. how is this supposed to play throughout the day? >> well, it is really a tense atmosphere that president obama goes into. these are some of americas fiercest defenders of israel. the israeli lobby aipac. theyre really going to be looking for president obama to kind of clarify what he said the other day about those ret...

and it continues as we speak 200 miles above us. this is coming to us from the international space station where two astronauts have been doing a spacewalk and theyve got some serious work theyre doing up here and have been at it for the past five hours or so. well give you an update about this historic "endeavour" mission. this is your cnn sunday morning for sunday, may 22nd. im t.j. holmes. also a big breaking news story we are following for you this morning. cnn has been able to...

>> this is the end of eight or nine days. we are live income extraordinary times, we know that. the last eight or nine days, if you start with john mccains speech in philadelphia and go forward, im only talking about republican, this doesnt include barack obama and joe biden. >> president bushs speech. >>. >> from john mccain, george w. bush, jeff flake yesterday, these are republicans who felt the need and come occupant and re-affirm, not just conservative values, american values, what is happe...