hill. martha? >> martha: thank you, aishah. let's bring in tom cotton from arkansas, republican senator, and a member of the armed services committee. good to have you with us today. obviously china is about to have a big moment on the world stage with these olympics. i know you're very forceful in your call to not attend for our athletes to not be part of the olympics. the question is on timing. how close do you see putin and xi working when it comes to ukraine and more action in taiwan as well? >> martha, i think both xi jinping and vladimir putin want to overturn the united states as the global super power. they don't have to openly coordinate or talk about these actions. they can observe what is happening. xi jinping sees that vladimir putin has massed 100,000 troops and no small part because of joe biden's past year of appeasement and weakness towards ukraine.