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♪ you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound lik...

how is that? alex hogan on the growing threat from the nuclear power plant that has nuclear inspectors rushing to the scene. what have they discovered? further, what have they done? welcome. i'm neil cavuto. so glad to have you. a lot to get to. first, let's go to edward lawrence at the white house with how they're responding to all of these developments. edward? >> vladimir putin has 700 billion more in his pocket because of the sale of oil to other countries around the worlds. russia is making 40% more revenue from oil than a year ago. russia raked in 20.4 billion largely because o...

Told shes off to the olympics. And coming up on bbc news, its winner takes all this weekend as england women travel to bordeaux to take on france for france for the six nations title decider. Reading. Hello, good evening. Its just been announced that the king is to return to some public facing duties his first since it was revealed that hed been diagnosed with cancer. Buckingham palace says the kings treatment isnt over, but that doctors are encouraged by his progress. This photo of the king and queen had been released tonight, taking the day after their 19th wedding anniversary. The first eng...

To the efforts to help ukraine and expect much more money coming down assuming this war continues to drag on. now, this package divided up into several categories, $20.4 billion for military assistance. you see another 8.5 billion in economic assistance for ukraine. 3 billion in humanitarian assistance. $500 million for domestic food production assistance, and an increased food aid to the tune of $3.4 billion and military equipment as well, that food aid a major concern in washington about the impacts that ukraine, this war is having on the global food supply, particularly in the region. now, ...

Billions of dollars in aid, the largest chunk being $20.4 billion in military assistance, which you noted. but there's also economic aid for the government of ukraine. there's about $3 billion in humanitarian aid. $500 million in domestic food production assistance. so, this is pretty wide-ranging and all-encompassing. president biden has been asking for this aid for a while now. and what happened here in congress is democrats agreed to decouple both the ukrainian aid from covid relief aid and once they did that, that created a smoother path for it congressionally so what we anticipate, erin, ...