, meredith mcgraw. Meredith good morning. Jesse it seems the relationship between the white house and chinas top leader seems to be deteriorating here. Is one of the lowest moments weve seen in terms of the United States and chinas relationship, as you outlined earlier. Weve seen that escalate in the past week, particularly with china asking the u. S. To shut down its consulate in chengdu and the u. S. Shuttering the consulate in houston and this also comes on the heels as weve seen the Trump White House really pick up their public rhetoric against china in the past few weeks. Weve seen a flurry of press conferences, opeds, highprofile speeches like the one from secretary of state pompeo, recently overseas trips, bigit has really been this push from the Trump Administration to outline issues, specific issues they have with china and make the case to the American People for some of the retaliatory things we have seen from the Trump Administration recently like tariffs, sanctions, things like that. Tensions have started to boil over between these two of the worlds biggest economic superpowers. Jesse what was the change that happened here . The changed between relationship between the u. S. And china that caused these tensions to ratchet up . President trump had been more thoughtful about his rhetoric earlier this year when they were trying to negotiate a trade deal that was so important to his administration but of course we saw that rhetoric start to change with the coronavirus pandemic. The president in the past few weeks has been frankly furious with china. Over the handling of the coronavirus and weve also seen the chinese have really picked up some of their actions, as well. Whether it is movements in the south china sea, which secretary of state pompeo said was unlawful, and their treatment of and thethnic minorities shanking province, that has been shenzhen province. That has been going on a wild the administration has used this moment to take some retaliatory efforts against them, and the administration when i talked to officials about china and what weve seen in the past few weeks, they said a lot of their actions have been a long time coming, and theyve been months and months in the making, but it is all coming to a head right now. Jesse do we expect any highlevel conversations between United States officials and chinese officials to bring the tensions back down . Meridith at this point, i do not see that happening in the near future, and the president himself has said he has no interest in talking to chinese president xi jinping. We will have to see how things go in the coming weeks but it doesnt seem like right now, we are going to see any of those conversations happening in the immediate future. Jesse is there any political advantage for democrats or republicans right now for relations with china to be ratcheting up into these tensions we see . Meridith oh, definitely. It in polling that china continues to be a top issue for the public, especially in the wake of the coronavirus. Issuehas always been an that people have been concerned about just in terms of the now, chinabs, but has become a Real National security issue for a lot of americans so when they go to fill out their ballot in november, it is certainly going to be one of the things that is andof mind for americans, it continues to be something that the president is going to have to try to win over the American People in terms of how hes handled the coronavirus. Prettyinues to poll thaty on that so showing the administration is going to show some force against china, certainly helps the Trump Administration politically. Jesse are we seeing any hit one way or the other hint one way or the other of how congress is reacting to these increased tensions or is what we are hearing mostly coming from the white house . There are a lot of china hawks in congress and certainly some are close to the president in the white house, senator cotten, senator graham, but there has been bipartisan support for taking action against china, particularly when it comes to their treatment of ethnic minorities in zhang zhang. The president signed a couple of weeks ago. Hong kong autonomy changes the way we deal with hong kong because of encroaching on hong kongs writes and that was billhelmingly bipartisan that the president signed so there is some support from capitol hill. Jesse what is on the president s schedule this week . Meridith the president is going to be making some tricks this week. Monday, tomorrow, we will be seeing him travel to north is going toere he be touring a planned and also, hes expected to make some remarks on vaccines and hes too expected to travel coronavirus hotspot. Hes going to texas, west texas for some fundraisers later this week and i actually asked the press secretary during her news wakerence on friday if, in of the spike in cases weve seen in texas and the president s decision to not hold of the convention in florida over safety concerns because of the anynavirus, if they had plans to change his schedule or travel or anything like that, and she said no. Right now, they are going to stick with what they have and to have health and safety precautions for when the president does travel, but it is interesting to watch him get back out on the road. Week,n new jersey this but we havent seen him hold any rallies, or big political events since oklahoma. Jesse if you had one thing to focus on this week for our viewers, what should they be paying attention to coming out of the white house . Meridith they should definitely be looking at whatever happens in terms of negotiations between the white house and folks on capitol hill, especially as the clock is ticking for these jobless benefits to expire. And thepens on july 31, white house and republican lawmakers have really struggled in their talks in coming to an agreement on some things, and we are going to see those conversations continue this week. Something that impacts millions of americans and a lot of people are waiting to see what they can actually get done. Jesse wed like to thank meridith mcgraw, politicos white house officials with pharmaceutical companies testified on a house hearing on covid19 research and development. From astrazeneca, pfizer, merck, and johnson from Johnson Johnson johnson. Because of technical issues, we start a few minutes into the hearing. I am looking for my opening statement. I recognize you for five minutes. Thank you chairwoman. 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