it is being driven by rising cases across europe. the w.h.o. chief blames the continued spread of the virus on in equity. let's listen. >> it's another reminder that the covid-19 pandemic is far from over. the pandemic persists in large part because inequitable access to tools persists. >> europe accounted for 57% of new cases worldwide last week and is the only w.h.o. region to report increases in infections. >>> today the u.s. food and drug administration is expected to authorize pfizer's covid vaccine for use in children ages 5 to 11. this will allow the company to begin shipping out its version for younger kids. pfizer says clinical trials show it's more than 90% effective against symptomatic covid after the fda grants authorization, the cdc still needs to give its approval. the cdc vacciner advisers are expected to hold a meeting on tuesday and the agency's director gets the final say. >>> donald trump's former chief of staff mark meadows could soon find himself in the same fix as the former president's ally steve bannon. multiple sources

and to your point, right, this is something that europe kind of has to do, right? they've been leaning on the u.s. in a whole host of ways. so there is a positive there. but the negative or at least the reality for the u.s. is even our closest allies don't have the same confidence they had in the u.s. before. again, afghanistan was a concrete example of that for them. yes, they knew the u.s. was going to withdraw at some point. but the way it happened, they were not happy. and you can say all the nice things you want, as has president biden, but the fact is the u.s. is out of there and now we and europe have to deal with the consequences. >> does that plus his own party not giving what he wants make it a done deal for biden before these meetings even start or does he have a shot? >> listen, he didn't get what he wanted, and by the way, the president and his team were -- they articulated this themselves, they said, you've got to send him to europe with something, with this deal. he got close, they do have a framework agreement. we shouldn't forget about that. and th

europe's strictest vaccine policy. bringing the pandemic under control and ending economic uncertainty will help focus leader's minds here. but absent president xi and putin at the table, it seems a stretch to have a covid solution. nic robertson, cnn, rome. >>> after the g20, the u.s. president will travel to scotland for the cop-26 climate summit. but it looks like he won't have much to show. he has vowed to cut around half of u.s. greenhouse gas emissions below their 2005 levels by 2030. the white house says he's considering new executive actions, restricting methane, mercury, and power plant emissions. but analysts say that won't be enough, and that joe biden will need congress to pass clean energy bills to reach his goal. >>> for more on all of this, we're joined by professor and volcano gist jess phoenix. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> as one of the world's biggest carbon polluters along with china, india, russia and japan, what does the u.s. need to do to lead the charge at the cop 26 clim

we'd actually have kind of a natural gas marshall plan for europe. we in america would build a set of l&g export terminals to export our national gas. we're the saudi arabia of natural gas. we're more than saudi arabia of natural gas, we have 100 years of supply. but if you can't liquify it, you can't export it. and then we partner with europeans and build terminals over there and then you have a long-term plan to counterbalance the influence of russia. >> so play out some of the other political consequences of this energy crunch and energy crisis. clearly russia gets empowered. what else happens? >> another thing i think people aren't paying attention to, and you've had this on the show before, which is iran is getting closer and closer to developing enough fissile material now to build one nuclear bomb. if you listen to americans, security officials and israeli security officials, they've been telling us we're not going to let that happen. we're not going to let iran get that close. they're getting that close. if they're considering some kind of ki

the president is on his way to europe. how is he supposed to pitch strength and unity to the world when they're literally one vote away from their entire agenda crumbling? >> yeah, that's ea very importat point. it is enough that biden is delaying his trip to rome by a few hours to try to meet with some of the house democrats to try to see if he can get more than what he currently has in terms of a deal. he wanted to go to europe with a deal in hand and say america is back, america is able to legislate, push back against some of the authoritarian voices that are cropping up in europe by saying, democracy works. er we can legislate and figure out our differences and lead on the world stage both on the climate front and on the social programs. but now it seems like he's going to have to go to europe and say, i'm still working on it. give me a little bit more time. democracy is messy, but i hope to get a plan done. it is a less strong message than what he wanted, but that's what he has at this point going into these meetings

he's going to europe. he would like to say a framework for a deal is in place and then he'll be meeting the pope. when you meet pope francis. that's a historic moment. biden is the second catholic president and they will be able to talk about climate change and hopefully the optics of this trip. yet biden meeting with anybody, any french leadership is problematic due to the recent nuclear submarine deal that cut france out of the picture between the united states, australia and great britain, so it's a time fraught for problems with joe biden, and we've got the virginia gubernatorial race coming up on tuesday. >> yeah. we've got virginia and new jersey on tuesday. there is -- you know, as we know it and we've been talk, there is so much riding on this. real quickly, gloria, before i let you go. the fact that former president obama is putting out a statement about this and he's basically saying, look, this could be transformational. this is a real big deal. there's a lot in that bill. >> right. >> he's also

diplomacy is on full display today in europe. secretary of state anthony blinken is wrapping up a visit to paris meant really to ease tensions over the new defense pact, remember, with uk and australia. the agreement to build nuclear powered submarines that led australia to a $66 billion deal for diesel electric subs from france. then we have u.s. talks with china. they come as taiwan's defense minister predicted today china could be capable of launching a full-scale invasion of the island within the next four years. let's have more on both these stories. in hong kong following the u.s./china diplomacy, joining us from paris, the latest on the u.s. secretary of state visit. melissa, i suspect as we set up there just before coming to you, this meeting is very much about mending fences with france given what occurred over the nuclear-powered submarines. how did that go? >> reporter: well, secretary of state blinken doing what he does best, which is use words, america's top diplomat, of course, they happened to be on french televisi

well, there are pockets of resistance across parts of europe. there are high levels of vaccine uptick in most countries in western europe and we have seen that. but in recent days, we've seen protests in italy and switzerland as woeell over the measures being taken to really nurnl encourage people to get that jab. what that entails in italy, the green pass, people will have to provide proof of getting the vaccination or getting that infection recently, recovering from that, or indeed getting a negative test within the last 48 hours. and those who don't comply with that green pass could face getting a fine of up to $1,075. and those in switzerland putting in a restriction for those who don't comply of going to restaurants and bars and clubs. but just last year, polls reflected that many people were not keen to get that jab. and president macron announced that there would be the health pass, we saw that vaccine uptick surge. so there is a example of these kind of measures encourage people to go out asand get that vaccine. >> it seems universal tha

and head for europe? what happens when the himalayan glaciers melt giving less water to pakistan and india. what happens when migrants surge north after droughts or hurricanes? we know the naval base in norfolk has to be moved now as a result of rising seas, but of course, the gap between the warnings and action in congress is stark. >> the hoemt security and defense department both released separate reports outlining the threat posed by the climate crisis. yet as you know, there doesn't seem to be a matching urgency from elected officials to do anything, with some exceptions of course. >> of course. you know, biden's build back better plan is the most ambitious sort of climate package in there. it will cost about $350 billion a year. the most effective analysts say would be incentivizing power companies to get off of coal and gas and get to clean sources of energy. solar and wind. the joe manchins of the world say that's too expensive. it's interesting that this week, they gave the pentagon $10 billion m

and how negotiations might go. >> well, these relationships with europe are absolutely vital, because the u.s. does not have a very good relationship with iran at all. it is absolutely rock bottom. and particularly hardliners in charge of iran, this is going to make things much more difficult. and france has been able to have some sort of relationship with iran so they are key to me somehow trying to return to the deal but i would also agree with what has already been said. i think before we get to any cooperation, we're actually going to see more sanctions deployed. and that's because the hardliners in iran seem not open stall to having any kind of deal. so it may be that things get worse whether they get better. >> my colleague jim sciutto pointed out that there are two key figures that are quote/unquote phoning it in. not in rome and in person, china's xi jinping and vladimir putin of russia. they will be attending virtually. i'm wondering how you think that might impact the effectiveness of the summit. >> this is actually a really big problem, though it does give biden an opportun

we're going to have more on biden's visit here to europe in a moment. erica? >> first, more on why that trip has been delayed now this morning as you pointed out, jim. before president biden leaves for europe, he's making a detour to capitol hill where he'll meet with the house democratic caucus reportedly in an effort to try to convince progressives to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill that they have been using as leverage to advance the social spending bill. sources telling cnn that the president plans to use this meeting to lay out some of the long awaited details of this $1.75 trillion economic and climate package. now, whether the president can ultimately convince lawmakers to get on board, that still remains to be seen. this after another progressive priority, paid family leave, already slashed from 12 weeks to four, now appears to have been sacrificed altogether and another compromise to moderate west virginia senator joe manchin. >> to expand social programs when you have trust funds that aren't solvent, going insolvent, i can't explain that. it

europe has virtually no meaningful military force to introduce in this part of the world and europe largely sees asia and particularly china through the eyes of economic and commercial ties. i think we're going to run into real problems trying to line the europeans up it work with us. losing my voice here fareed, sorry. >> no worries. anne-marie, what about richard point, particularly in light of merkel leaving after 16 years in germany. the europeans don't have the capacity to pro correct any kind of military force without american help. and they don't seem that interested in having a kind of larger world role. they're largely internally eu focused. is it a fool's errand to try to get europe to play a larger strategic role? >> no, as i just said, the french after the united states have the largest naval experience in the south pacific. if we were going to make a deal with australia and britain, yes, i understand that we had better technology, but we should have included the french in thinking about the south pacific as a strategic arena and the british, particularly now that they're not in

. >> reporter: you know, jim, this is something that is extremely welcome within europe, which has been very impatient with these u.s. restrictions, welcomed by the u.s. travel industry, airlines have had a very difficult time restoring their international business, and very welcome to the biden administration, which is desperate to restore more of a sense of normalcy, get out of the pandemic. now the trends are going down. they're trying in the last couple of weeks to celebrate some of these milestones. on november 8th, the country-by-country restrictions that have prevented people from flying into the united states are going to be lifted with a condition -- vaccination. got to have it. that is consistent with the message that president biden is trying to send domestically, to companies through the u.s. government, vaccine requirements. that's the way out of the pandemic and the way into the united states for people from europe, from other parts of the world, south africa, elsewhere that have been subject to regional or country-by-country bans. those are now being lifted if you show pr

now cnn is confronting the man responsible dubbed europe's last dictator. would you take this opportunity now to apologize to the people of belarus for the human rights abuses that they have suffered at your hands? >> translator: no, i would not like to take this opportunity. i don't think that this is even a relevant question and in principle i have nothing to apologize for. >> reporter: you say you have nothing to apologize for, but human rights watch says multiple detainees have reported broken bones, broken teeth, brain injuries, skin wounds, electrical burns. amnesty international speaks of detention centers becoming torture chambers where protestors were forced to lie in the dirt, stripped naked while police kicked and beat them. you don't think that is worth apologizing for? >> translator: you know, we don't have a single detention center as you say like guantanamo or the bases that the united states and your country created in eastern europe. as regards to our own detention center, they are no worse than in britain or the united states. i discuss th

who is the most trusted friend in europe if you sit this trip aside? >> we'll watch over the next few days who is exactly, especially after he mentioned this dustup with macron. we'll see how does this all play out. have the democrats reset the button after the trump administration and they are starting these relationships anew? >> is he weaker or stronger in the sense that the president wanted congressional passage of the infrastructure plan, congressional timeline to pass sweeping spending plan that mostly has nothing to do with foreign affairs except for the climate part of t.biden wanted the wind at his back, personal political momentum and a climate piece that comes at the climate summit that comes at the end of the trip. he does have landmark investments in the framework. not guaranteed to get to the finish line. does he have the wind at the back or are europe dwran leaders looking at joe biden saying you're not donald trump but we're not sure. >> it's interesting if you listened to jake sullivan he was kind of asked these questions saying, look,

he delayed his departure to europe this morning in order to make this final push to get his party to come together around a deal since republicans are united against this effort. let's begin our coverage with cnn's john harwood. he's live at the white house. we'll hear from the president just minutes away, john. what do you think we're about to hear from president biden? >> reporter: i think a very strong case in the affirmative for what's in this package, not what was cut out of the package. he originally asked for $3.5 trillion, lost priorities like two years of free community college for everyone in america, lost the paid leave program, which even as late as last week he thought would survived in reduced form. he's going to talk about $1.75 trillion of investments in education, universal precare, expanded pell grants, health care, strengthen obamacare, strengthened medicare through additional dental benefits, in children, expanded child tax credit, housing, new money for affordable housing, and climate change as he goes to this meeting in glasgow for worldwide efforts to combat cl

the northern lights are on display across parts of europe and north america, including u.s. states as far south as illinois and oregon. one viewer tweeted you won't believe the scene here, unreal. keep an eye out for that. i'm kim brunhuber. thank you for watching. stay with cnn, our special coverage continues with "new day" next. how did olay top expensive creams? like this with hydration that beats the $100 cream in every jar of regenerist retinol24 collagen peptide new vitamin c and the iconic red jar can't top this skin shop now at olay.com . . [♪] did you know, you no longer need to visit a dermatologist to get access to top skincare ingredients? introducing dermageek featuring top dermatologist recommended ingredients and 0% fillers. dermageek's new detoxifying facial serum contains twice the amount of beta hydroxy acid. it delivers two times more exfoliation for brighter skin, with dermatologist tested levels of hydration. get top derm-ingredients at a fraction of the price. try the new dermageek skincare lineup, with a money-back guarantee. >>> good morning, and ha

poor relations after the afghan debacle between the united states and her allies in mainland europe. and vladimir putin's real focus over the next year is going to be on a bilateral meeting with joe biden. joe biden's the only man that he sees as a sufficient colossus for him to meet in any serious sense. the other, of course, would be the president of china. he sees himself very much in that bracket of leadership and sees historically very little to be gained from these large gatherings of the international community of leaders. and in the past, he's always used them as opportunities to take the elbow, if you like, of the u.s. president and get a great deal of focus on bilateral meetings that happen unofficially during these sorts of gatherings of g20 and others, wolf. >> i was in geneva when president putin met personally one-on-one with president biden. it was a very significant moment. i assumed it was going to be repeated here in rome. clearly that's not happening. sam, i want you to stand by. as we said, the chinese president, xi jinping, won't be here at the g20 summit in pers

let's start first on where europe stands with this working situation at the border. we have heard from your reporting throughout the week that the eu believes lukashenko is orchestrating this. from that side, what can the eu do leer? >> that's really the big question. it's one of the things when you hear about the criticism that many have of poland, the eu always couches that and says, look, we believe lukashenko is very much at fault in all of this because he's the one, they say, who is manufacturing all this. he's the one who is essentially telling people to come there and then pushing, literally pushing them across the border. we've talked to refugees who said they were driven to the border by belarusian border guards who then cut the barbed wire fence for them and pushed them across. now, the poles are obviously saying this isn't going to happen here. what they did do is they declared the area around their border into an emergency zone, and that means no press is allowed inside. that means no ngos are allowed inside and they have been accused of a lot of these ng

particularly in the northern europe and asia. if we get a cold winter like last winter or worse, and prices could spike, on the other hand with a mildish winter like a couple of years before, then we could see prices come off quite a bit. i think the market is waiting a little bit to see what the situation is like. >> again, we are at the mercy of the weather here. it has been interesting to see how much repercussions are fuelling. appreciate your in sights on this. >> thank you. >>> ahead for us, chinese astronauts are orbiting the earth again. we'll have news on the crew and their ambitious goals straight ahead. my plaque psoriasis... ...the itching ...the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. my psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen... painful. emerge tremfyant™. with tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. tremfya® is the only medication of its kind also approved for adults with active psoriatic arthritis. serious

it was the president who told members of congress that he wanted this done before he took off for europe. specifically before he reached the glascow summit. white house officials followed suit and agreed with that. >> it's easy to lose track. they will try at some point sooner rather than later to get together on what they can agree on and there in this kind of routine. the progressives want to make sure that they don't get double crossed by the senate. they want to make sure that manchin and sinema will be with them. it's easy if senator manchin and senator sinema said we support the larger frame work as well as the infrastructure bill. i think you'd have a lot of these progressives on board. there's such a lack of trust, which is kind of astonishing actu actually between the house members and those more moderate democrats in the senate that it's hard to predict how and when this is going to happen. if the president couldn't effectively knock heads today and some people said he was a little too reticent today on the hill, but he couldn't convince them to do it today before he jetted off

and europe vis-a-vis china. there is a difference in the approach. and that's why i'm advocating for a stronger coordination between european countries on the united states, to enter the key strategic question, how to deal with china over the next decade. and i think that, first of all, we should reinforce the cooperation between the u.s. and european countries. second, we should have a list of issues and make differences between the question of the human rights, the question of trade, the question of access to market, so that we can try to find solutions on every topic instead of having the global approach. >> okay. engagement has been tried for decades really with china. that's an argument you hear, entering china's entrance into the wto. >> and you get some results. >> but china's trade practices did not miraculously became fairer. >> i'm not explaining that we are satisfied with china. i'm just explaining that engagement is for us, for the french president, for all european countries the right approach. and it can give some reserves. let's just g

>> french leaders and particularly others in europe were telling me a year ago right after the election that they feared biden would be a little more than just basically a change -- a very slight change in direction before we go back to a trumplike position in america. there were plenty of carrots but no sticks here. that was the principle problem i see about this. biden needed to come with something that he could actually tell what he was going to do, not simply, basically, platitude. show, not tell, is what i always say. don't tell me what you want to do. that is what i think basically happened in the entire period. it was interesting, the french magazine, newspaper figueroa said climate vaccines, timid advanced. we don't need timid add advances, we need strong advances for literally kwai problem. when will you think of the top 10 in the world, the number oneie mirt r, china. number 3 is biden for the u.s. he's coming but he's coming with bad news, that he wants to lower the goal for india. the fourth is russia. here we have putnam is the encouraging sense of urgency. these people are

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but the move sent shock waves throughout europe. a former-european council chief and leader of the country's main opposition group urged people to turn out for the protests. >> translator: i say this today. that even if i had to be alone, i would stand and raise this alarm because it is a matter of our future. the future of our children and grandchildren. >> reporter: relations between brussels and warsaw have been strained since the law and justice party came to power six years ago. the party has introduced reforms to the judiciary it says will make courts more efficient. but the eu says could threaten judicial independence. some critics fear that thursday's court ruling could be a first step towards a pol-exit or poland leaving the eu, a prospect the government calls fake news. that's something protestors say they're adamantly opposed to. the eu says it will use all of its power to enforce the rules of the bloc, and could cut off sending more funds to poland over the court's decision. kim brunhuber, cnn. >>> coming up on "cnn news

natural gas prices in europe are wild. earlier this month trading at the equivalent of $230 per barrel in oil terms. that is up more than 130% since the beginning of september. and more than eight times higher than the same point last year. according to data from independent commodity intelligence services. those natural gas shortages have also prompted europe to return to coal production. >> a lot of countries across europe are quietly switching on coal stations again that have been moth balled in the last few years because rather than run something dirty and run out of electricity. >> reporter: also increasing demand economic activity has bounced back from the pandemic shutdown last year, and before the pandemic the world was consuming an average of 101 billion barrels of oil every day. during the pandemic slowdown it plummeted to 84.9 million at one point. now this year it is predicted to average more than 97 million barrels a day. that will continue to climb which has forced a surge in pricing with no end in sight. >>

almost every country in europe has got more people vaccinated than we do. that's a very sad commentary on the population. >> i want to get your perspective with the white house advisory hat back on, especially when it pertains to the bills on capitol hill, the ongoing negotiations. to get the agenda moving, you wrote an op-ed about simple will simplifying government and what you people these two sides wrangling over what to put in and take out should be getting. particularly within the democratic party, how do you get them to see eye to eye, when they're representing the majority? in both houses and in the white house, and now, the president's agenda, you know, is hanging in the balance? mostly because of democrats not seeing eye to eye. >> yeah, i think this is one of the situation where is just a few people can really upset the apple cart. i think with joe manchin, it's much clearer what he wants and what he doesn't want with senator sinema from arizona. it's much less clear what she wants and doesn't want. and getting some clarity on that is going to be

natural gas prices in europe have risen a staggering amount, nearly 500%. in asia, bloomberg reports that power companies are buying liquefied natural gas at record prices to try to lock in supply. in europe a mass producer of fertilizer was already forced to temporarily shut down two uk plants due to high energy costs, and there are fears other industries will follow. the u.s. energy information administration has put out a report warning americans that they are likely to pay significantly more to stay warm this winter, especially if temperatures drop substantially. why is this happening? the simplest explanation is the demand for energy is currently exceeding supply, which makes prices rise. the reasons for this miss match are many, including extreme and unpredictable weather, as well as bad government decisions about storage, reserves or transmission lines. but there is one common cause -- much of the world has stopped investing in fossil fuels for good reasons. which has led to less supply of them. but we do not have sufficient green energy today to rep

we in the united states and the united kingdom and europe are talking about booster vaccines, whereas many citizens of african nations and other country offense the world have not got that. >> stay there one moment. back to capitol hill as lawmakers emerge from the meeting with the president. let's listen in and hear what they're saying. >> mr. president, are you going to have a bill in hand? what did you tell the democratic senators? what did you tell the democrats? >> one more try there to see if the president would give an update. did he get the commitments he was looking for on capitol hill from, mind you, members of his own party as they try to push these economic priorities across the finish line? do we know at this point where things stand? because it seems to change every few minutes. the white house this morning believed they had a deal. then you started to hear public comments from lawmakers that, no, they're not ready. i spoke to senator ed markey a few minutes ago, and he said, hey, we can wait, don't have to do it before g-20. what's the reality? >> reporter: it seems we'

known as europe's last dictator. scornful of western media, it's rare for him to sit down with a foreign journalist, but cnn's matthew chance managed to get this exclusive an contentious interview. listen. >> this is what the brutal crackdown in belarus looks like. detained then beaten by police. after disputed elections last year, the mass protests that followed were crushed. human rights groups called it a catastrophe. now, they're confronting europe's last dictator. would you take this opportunity now to apologize to the people of belarus for the human rights abuses they've suffered at your hands? >> translator: no, i would not like to take this opportunity. i don't think this is even a relevant question and in principle, i have nothing to apologize for. >> you say you've got nothing to apologize for, but human rights watch says multiple detainees have reported broken bones, broken teeth, brain injuries, skin wounds, electrical burns. amnesty international speaks of detention centers becoming torture chambers wher

. >>> in our world lead, surging anti-semitism in europe. a popular musician told to hide the star of david necklace he was wearing, or be denied entry into at german hotel. just the latest example in what groups call a rise in hate. as frederik pleitgen reports, conspiracy theorists like qanon are helping to fuel these incidents of hate. >> this musician close to tears, in a video he posted on instagram right after he said staff at this hotel in eastern germany told him, they wouldn't allow him to check in, unless he concealed a necklace bearing the star of david. >> he told me to put away my david star. i was really shocked, and looked over to the other person, he just repeated the same sentence. he is a big star in germany, with thousands of fans, but he tells me the moment he was singled out, denied service for being jewish, he never felt more alone. did anyone come to your aid? you would think someone would jump in and support you. >> right. no support, no one speaking up. no one. >> reporter: gil's video has gone viral, and the westin

this comes amid a rise in covid cases and deaths across europe. >>> much of eastern europe is paying a high price over vaccine hesitancy. while there isn't a shortage of covid shots, reluctance to get one is widespread. and with few people following mitigation measures, surging covid cases are overwhelming the region. cnn's paula newton reports. >> reporter: an ambulance arrives at a moscow hospital. essential workers are still allowed on the job in russia. but much of the rest of the workforce right across the country is in lockdown until at least november 7th. it's part of a government plan to try and cut down on the number of new covid-19 cases that are overwhelming hospitals and logging record-high daily death tolls. shops are closed except for pharmacies and supermarkets. restaurants in moscow open only for delivery or takeout. but it's not a stay-at-home order. the city's streets are still busy. some people leaving town to take advantage of time off. one resident says she thinks the new measures aren't tough enough to make a difference, and old measures aren't always being foll

do you worry that europe will not have somebody like that at the helm? >> well, here's a leader who never identified herself with her office, and she will leave the chancellory and return to her rent-controlled apartment, which she never left for the past few decades, and never lost her talent to be normal. she will assume the life of a normal citizen and make herself scarce in berlin. >> she did her own grocery shopping all through the time she was chancellor. >> always. yes, she loves to cook. she's not a great cook but she loves to cook. and she will, i think, leave both germany and europe in a very strong place. >> kati marton, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you, fareed. wonderful to be with you. >>> next on "gps" the taliban is back to a lot of its old ways. afghanistan faces economic collapse and a series of terror attacks have shocked citizens there. i will talk to the afghan activist mahbouba seraj, who we had on before, about the sorry state of that war-torn nation when we come back. >> tech: when you get a chip in your windshield... trust sa

. >>> the white house wants an agreement before joe biden leaves for europe on thursday. i will speak to a member of the progressive caucus about this. >>> word tonight criminal charges are not ruled out in the shooting death of the cinematographer on the set of the alec baldwin movie "rust." joining me john harwood and senior political analyst john avalon. good evening. john harwood, i have to get your take on breaking news, an aide to the cnn select committee they plan to subpoena john eastman, the lawyer who drafted ways to overturn the 2020 election. is that significant, and, if so, how significant is it? >> very significant if they can get john eastman to testify and testify truthfully. the problem, of course, is that people close to trump have been attempting to delay, to avoid service, to challenge the right of the committee to compel their testimony. don't know how long they can drag that out, but john eastman was at the center of the effort to thwart the constitution and overturn the will of the american people as expressed in the election last november. we learn

reticent today on the hill, but if he couldn't convince them to do it today, before he jetted off to europe, it's hard to see when that exactly is going to happen. >> so, phil, you had the president going in front of the cameras to announce this framework. there's still the wording of the deal which can go south in a whole bunch of different way, couldn't it? >> yeah, it's a really great point. drafting of legislation always take the over in terms of timeline to use a sports betting terminology. just because it takes a long time, and the words actually matter. i'm not being kind of flip when i say that. each line, each phrase, each section is extraordinarily important and has wide-ranging implications and repercussions. i think in terms of what the president did this morning, it was calculated risk. i think there was an understanding they didn't have the votes and full agreement on the framework from the parties involved, but they felt like they needed to make a push. the other thing they felt like they needed to do is rest back control of what has been very clearly the story of the last se

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i mean the white house has tried to impose another deadline before biden leaves for europe. but they need to pass something soon. you know, you've got elections coming up next week in virginia. you've got the midterms looming. and we're at the place where now we seem to know what some of the bottom lines particularly for senator sinema are, this billionaire's tax as opposed to raising -- and a corporate minimum tax, which are different ways to raise revenue to pay for these programs. the white house is doubling down on a fairly generous slice of this bill being directed to the environment. bernie sanders saying, look, some of it's got to cover medicare coverage for hearing and dental. so what everyone's positions are now pretty clear and the question is whether joe biden can draw on the senate and bring everybody to the finish line. democrats need this win. there must be a way to reason together, and it looks like while the devil's always in the details, they're closer than ever. we'll see. >> john harwood, the president hitting the trail tonight for terry mcauliffe. he need

can it get over the finish line before he heads to europe tomorrow? >> there are double and triple checking our weapons after the armourer gave them to us. whether they were cold or hot. >>> and new concerns this morning about the weapons on the set of "rust." criminal charges are now on the table after that deadly shooting by alec baldwin. hello, everyone. it's wednesday, october 27th. it's 5:00 a.m. here in new york. thanks so much forget being an early start with me. i'm laura jarrett. christina is off today. welcome to our viewers ain the u.s. and all around the world. >>> we begin with the next step to bringing the pandemic to an end. they have recommended the covid vaccine for kids 5 to 11. the they say the benefits outweigh the risks. this as 118,000 more kids tested positive for covid in the last week alone. kids account for a disproportionate share of new cases in the u.s. and higher numbers than other conditions like chickenpox where vaccines are already available for kids. >> this is a very important option, especially with so much covid ar

interesting, he's made a lot of mistakes on foreign policy but china is not one of them, america and europe, allies mistress joe biden because of the way he handled afghanistan and not allowing them to travel through the u.s. to covid, because of covid, the allies feel like the united states can be counted on, think about the quad for example, the new diplomatic engagement with the indians and the australians the japanese, all countries that want to see more united states in their backyard, because they are working about china, the relationship is going very well, the announcement of this new august deal, really antagonizing the french and the chinese even more, but the australians really wanted it, because the chinese launched a trade war against australia, so when you're talking about the asian allies, and this pivot towards the region, because people are concerned that china is getting too strong and not aligning with the rules of engagement that the americans and our allies are of been living with for decades now, hardly speaking the asian allies are pretty happy with the biden administ

the president is now headed to europe. he visited capitol hill to push a framework for his social safety net package. the president laid out the stakes and they are high. he told house democrats that his presidency and democrats' control of congress will be determined by what happens in the next week. >> no one got everything they wanted, including me, but that's what compromise is, that's consensus, and that's what i've ran on. i've long said compromise and consensus are the only ways to get things done in a democracy. important things done for the country. i know it's hard. i know how deeply people feel about the things they fight for. but this framework includes historic investments in our nation and on our people. >> so the president is speaking there as if this were a done deal, but progressives do not seem to be on board yet. joining us now, we have cnn chief political correspondent dana bash and manu raju, who's been tracking every step of the negotiations from capitol hill. manu, we know nancy pelosi was hoping to

what he panted for the bill to pass when he got to europe and that didn't happen. the separate bill that framework put out would expand the nation's social safety yet. progressives would not support the bill when it goes to the floor for a vote unless it is voted for the same time or at least within hours of the separate bill. they also want assurances from or to democratic senators who have not said yet where they stand in the framework out of the economic bill. those two senators being joe manchin of west virginia and sinema from arizona. we don't know where senator manchin is on this. he put out a framework and said it was a positive statement. he did not outright endorse this framework. the thing is they want to pass these two bills at the sam e time. that will expire december 3. that is the new day that this will expire. the debt ceiling and funding for the government will run out. these are three major issues leaders will have to address when they come back and have to work on this through the next few weeks. talking the debt ceiling and funds running out. le

. >> well, in europe, political parties actually came to facebook researchers and said in order to get things to go viral on facebook now after the algorithm changed in 2018, we have to take more angry positions. more -- positions that we don't even necessarily agree with if we're going to get any traction on your site. and so, they very clearly tied these algorithms to -- to -- to policy differences in the political system in europe. >> you know, we've had facebook folks on before. and we've had mark zuckerberg on during covid but we also had an attorney from facebook on when they hadn't taken down, i think, a nancy pelosi video that was -- or some videos that were very misleading. it made some political figures look like they were drunk or something. one of their arguments essentially is -- i mean, the dilemma it seems to me that they have is because they are so huge and seen in so many countries, and have so many customers and want those customers to remain and want to remain in all these countries, for them to start getting into the business of actually being more than just, a cond

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should be doing, how france should europe in potentially a new direction. that was just underscored about 10 to 12x based on the submarine deal. the outrage based on that deal was very real, but i think the broader issues there in terms of defense for europe, whether or not it should be more autonomous, the french policies in terms of what they pant want to pursue counterterrorism-wise in africa, collective defenses, all of those are real issues. i think french officials, according to diplomats i've spoken with, don't just want to shake hands, just have a friendly conversation. they want deliverables. they want concrete things out of the u.s. delegation in this meeting. as your panel was talking about, the u.s. has made an extensive effort behind the scenes over the course of the last couple weeks to address those concerns and maybe set the groundwork for delivering on some of those issues, whether it was the secretary of state, national security adviser jake sullivan, obviously the vice president will be heading to paris next month. those conversations are

in a last-minute mitch before the president left for europe, he visited capitol hill to push his pared-down, build back better act. a source says he told house democrats today that his presidency and his party's control of congress, quote, will be determined by what happens in the next week. >> progressives continue their push-back. they said they need to see the actual words on paper to see if they'll back the spending bill which no longer includes paid family medical leave and gaining support from moderates. a few weeks ago, nancy pelosi announced this. >> there is a path to get this done. for those who say i want to see text, the text is there for you to review, for you to complain about, for you to add to, subtract from, whatever it is, and we'll see what consensus emerges from that. but we're really very much on a path. >> cnn's manu raju is on capitol hill. phil mattingly is in rome following the president. manu, a lot has happened. fast-moving parts here. give us the state of play right now. >> uncertainty, but democrats pushing ahead to get at least one aspect of the biden agenda th

out what's next for the leadership, who is the next chancellor, this has larger implications across europe. kurtz, as you said, was a young, charismatic leading conservative figure at a time that conservative political parties across the continent are losing momentum, are losing votes. i'm going to give you the example of germany i was there last month when in a stunning defeat angela merkel's center right party lost to the social democratic party. this was a period in which germany is now trying to figure out its future after merkel who is stepping down now after 16 years. so a lot of conservative politicians were looking to kurtz as the sort of new face of that conservative across europe. the other concern here is much like happened in germany with the cdu, with lang merkel's party, that inability to galvanize support, the inability to reach out to voters meant losing the young vote on one end. people wanting a more green agenda, wanting a more progressive agenda and on the other end losing more right wing voters who in germany and austria were gravitating towards more far right groups.