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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Trump's Trip, Cuba's Crisis, Surging Prices

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

As President Trump heads back from China on Air Force One, the big question remains: What, if anything, did he accomplish during his meetings with Xi Jinping? ... Cuba suffers massive blackouts, prompting protests, and the island nation's government warns it's going to get even worse ... The cost of groceries in the US sees the highest jump in almost four years. Is relief coming anytime soon?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening outbreaking news, possible policy pivot.

0:04.0

New comments from President Trump about his meeting was Xi Jinping that could calibrate decades of the U.S. stance on Taiwan.

0:11.0

Plus, deadly plane crash.

0:13.0

Shocking video shows in Inferno engulfing a home in Ohio after a plane slammed into the house.

0:19.0

And later, Eric Church's advice to grads, we'll talk to the country

0:23.1

superstar about his viral commencement address at my alma mater, UNC Chapel Hill.

0:28.1

And Cuba's energy crisis, the island nation is suffering massive blackouts that last almost all day

0:36.0

prompting protests. The government is warning

0:38.7

it's going to get even worse. Plus surging food prices. The cost of groceries

0:44.6

sees the highest jump in almost four years. Is relief coming anytime soon? And later.

0:50.5

Natty in the situation room. My Washington National's new team dog will be here live before his Major League debut.

1:00.5

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

1:03.8

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. This is CNN Breaking News.

1:17.6

And we begin this hour with the breaking news.

1:19.6

President Trump is on his way home from Beijing, where he met with Chinese leader

1:23.6

Xi Jinping for a second straight day.

1:26.6

Today, their one-on-one time included a stroll through the

1:29.9

compound of China's Communist Party. But it was aboard Air Force One just a short time ago that the

1:36.2

president delivered news that's sure to rattle Taiwan. He says he and President Xi discussed a pending

1:42.9

multi-billion dollar U.S. arms deal to the self-governing island, which China claims as its territory.

1:50.0

Listen.

1:51.0

You would discuss to Taiwan, you know, the whole thing with the arms sales was in great detail, actually.

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