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So thank you again for having me here today and we look forward to the next several days . >> and was going to see if the president was going to take any questions. but a pretty tightly choreographed walk down the hallway. so now they will close the doors and have a meeting together. what do you think will be the president's top priorities in the summit, kevin? >> reporter: yeah, i think he does want to emerge with consensus about the china issue. i think because we are in asia, because the concerns that have grown even since the last time that this summit convened, that will be sort of the pr...

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Trip. the president and his team are very committed to talking to america's friends and being there in this time of uncertainty vis-a-vis china. >> reporter: yeah. and all the discussions about how the trip would proceed. the g7 was the stop that they really did want to maintain. the president really wanting to get around the table with these other leaders to ensure that they are on the same page. when it comes to ukraine or china. certainly the debt ceiling issue will come up. there is no more pressing issue at the moment. so you can expect that the president will be talking about that around...

Hear in the next few minutes? >> reporter: they are walking into the room where they will have this bilateral meeting, this is at a hotel here in hiroshima. the president there shaking the prime minister's hand. and this is real an important moment. u.s. officials say that they view prime the prime minister a political ally in the surprising role that he has taken over the war in ukraine and applying sanctions on russia that haven't been a guarantee. so you hear a lot from american officials how pleased they are at how strong the relationship has become.

Troubling poll numbers as his agenda is stalling right now. there is little hope of his sweeping spending plan passing the senate before the end of the year as well as voting rights legislation. so what is his party's plan? we're going to ask the number one two democrat in the u.s. senate, dick durbin. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> let's get state to the breaking pandemic news. president biden underscoring in very stark terms the threat posed by th...