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g7 in japan. we re going to begin right now with nbc s julia tsirkin on capitol hill force. julie, i know that you have no information about a phone call with the president and the house speaker. presumably this took place on board air force one. what do we know? yes, it. debt that s exactly right. i just got done out of the 20, nearly 20 minutes with the speaker. he walked out, along with their graves top ally in these negotiations. you had a conversation with president biden on air force one, as the president, of course, makes his way back to the united states from g7. the big picture here is a from mccarthy, from when we talk to him just a few minutes before that phone call. he said it was a productive discussion, he said the two leaders agreed to meet in person, sometime tomorrow afternoon. this is after the president is able to recover from his travels. it s still the top line number, here how long the that limitless will last, what the spending cap situation ....
Understands. that they seeks to billet-y. don t, i wouldn t see the chinese role in this is anything other than a positive step. one final piece, u.s. china have a long period of escalation. china s ukraine smartest training partner, so the koreans but also welcomed us as we move toward the offensive, and perhaps, diplomatic negotiations down the line. alexei, my producer was listening to what you are saying earlier so i want to play the soundbite that you referred to earlier what biden said about the politics behind the stat ceiling talks is bringing about, here it is. i think there are some maga republicans in the house who know the damage that it would do to the economy, and because i am president, and the president is responsible for everything, they ll claim that that s the one way biden is not reelected. is that a widely held view ....
Ukraine. talk about the delicate dance, mark, of rhetoric used when discussing china this weekend, if this theory impacts the way he s suggesting. sure. are you have to remember that the administration has called, has done what i call dancing with the raindrops when it comes to ukraine. provide a in incredible amounts of assistance, frankly, over the last, year but not doing so that to risk confrontation escalation with russia. that it was always been with president biden s biggest concerns, and that is where china really can help, and i think having a relationship where things such as a future phone call between president biden and xi, but having the military hotline at established again. these are positive, you know, measures that i think we can look forward to because ultimately, look, the u.s. is committed to ukraine women, we have to do so in which there s no risk of escalation with russia, and ultimately china ....
Success for president biden? was there anything that was left on the table because he had to leave early, to the point you re making? i leave it to his team in the white house to say whether they think it was a success. certainly, there s been ample coverage of other things going on beyond what i was just discussing happening here at home. to your point, the movement towards sullen ski and ukraine is obviously a big win for the administration, and the white house, in their eyes. that s gotten a lot of coverage as well. so, let s add china, mark, biden said tensions with china should dawson. what does the g7 duress game but not decoupling approach to china look like in practice? so i think there is a recognition that china, perhaps, is not an enemy, but that it s a competitor. i think that was the language use, there it was really smart. there was a world in what you have the united states, europe, china as a dominant player. it s not a country that we can ....
Currently are, and i believe that it was at the end of the phone call, we re going to have patrick mchenry get back together well, the president tweeted well on board air force one this past hour, here it, is this time browser publicans except that there is no bipartisan deal and default to be made solely on their terms. i put forward a plan that cut spending by over one male trillion dollars on top of three trillion in deficit reduction i previously proposed. they need to move to. before departing japan, the leaders of the g7 summit, including a highly anticipated one along with volodymyr zelenskyy, zelenskyy them join the g7 leaders for their traditional family photo. of course, the symbol of the unified support of ukraine. the president ended his day with the first press conference and where he announced the war in ukraine, china, and the debt ....