President Biden plans to announce a new military aid package worth hundreds of millions of dollars at G7 summit

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🗓️ 20 May 2023

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Sources tell CNN that President Biden plans to announce a new military aid package that is worth hundreds of millions of dollars during the G7 summit in Japan. The war in Ukraine is one of the top agenda items during the three-day summit where the world’s wealthiest democracies are expected to make a strong statement of unity in support of Ukraine. Jill Dougherty is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and an adjunct professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She tells Anderson Cooper if she thinks the Kremlin still sees a path to victory.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight with new developments on two key questions for this country in the
0:05.0	free world.
0:06.0	How to prevent a default on the national debt that could destroy global confidence in
0:09.6	our economy and how to ensure that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is rolled back.
0:13.5	President Biden, at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, is grappling with both on Ukraine
0:19.1	and milestone with President Zelensky due to travel from Ukraine to Japan this weekend.
0:23.9	President Biden gave his okay for a joint allied effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16
0:28.7	fighters and other advanced aircraft.
0:31.1	And on the debt ceiling, it looks like talks, which the president was being updated on remotely
0:35.0	or back on again.
0:36.8	They resume tonight just hours after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's Republican negotiators
0:41.0	called a halt to them earlier today.
0:42.9	As only CNN can, we have corresponded, spanning the globe tonight, filled maddenly traveling
0:47.0	with the president of Japan and Sam Kiley in Ukraine, I want to start with Phil.
0:51.1	So what's the ladies that you're hearing from White House officials about debt ceiling
0:54.2	negotiations?
0:56.2	You know Anderson, as you point out, there was a pause for House Republican negotiators
1:00.4	walking out of the room saying there simply had been no progress, particularly on the
1:04.8	central issue of the scale of the spending cuts the White House is willing to consider.
1:09.0	And basically putting a halt to everything.
1:10.8	It had been days of hours on end of meetings between the president's top negotiators and
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