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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. >> cnn's senior state department producer live for news washington in advance of the president's 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 america's fiercest defenders of israel. the israeli lobby aipac. they're really going to be looking for president obama to kind of clarify what he said the other day about those returning -- that a palestinian state should return to those '67 borders which prime minister netan...
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 they've got some serious work they're doing up here and have been at it for the past five hours or so. we'll give you an update about this historic "endeavour" mission. this is your cnn sunday morning for sunday, may 22nd. i'm t.j. holmes. also a big breaking news story we are following for you this morning. cnn has been able to confirm the earth did not end yesterday. more on that in just a bit. let me tell you about pr...
>> 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 mccain's speech in philadelphia and go forward, i'm only talking about republican, this doesn't include barack obama and joe biden. >> president bush's 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 happening right now not who we are. i don't know, have we seen anything like there? nine months, ten ...