welcome to hannity . tonight we are broadcasting live from the grand old opry right here in beautiful nashville, tennessee, which is the site of the fifth annual patriot awards. that kicks off tomorrow. don t miss it. 6:30 p.m. only on fox nation. coming up the one and only kid rock right here on our set. that will be a lot of fun. we begin tonight on the west coast where the president of the united states just wrapped up a series of high-stakes meetings with the dictator of china president xi. this was after months of begging and pleading and begging and ass kissing. america s relationship with china has severely deteriorated since joe biden has become president. and frankly for good reason. china we all know infected the world with covid-19, a disease that killed more than 1 million americans. there has never been any accountability. they continue to ship massive quantities of cheap fentanyl to north america. that s a drug that is killing 200 of our fellow americans every
president biden and president xi jinping will meet today. i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. numerous national security threats tied to china that president biden is dealing with, first china buying up 384,000 acres of american farmland, including land located near military bases. remember the spy balloon that hovered over sensitive sites and 224 alleged chinese spies have been arrested in the u.s. since the year 2000. todd: we learned china is rapidly expanding their nuclear arsenal. that could rise to 1000 by 2030. then there is fentanyl being produced and coming in at 25,000 bucks per kilogram. carley: griff jenkins is here with what we can expect to happen today. hi. griff: good morning. you are right, the stage set for the san francisco summit, president biden and chinese president xi sitting down for the first time in a year when relations became more strained. last time they met was prior to when china started floating countless spy balloons across the
president biden will be wheels up to san francisco, meet with chinese president xi jinping tomorrow. house will gavel in this morning with government-funding deadline looming. a massive pro-israel protest scheduled on the mall and president trump s case will continue after donald trump trump jr. took the stand. you are watching fox and friends first on a busy tuesday morning. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. president biden heading to san francisco to host representativeses from 21 apec member economies and tomorrow he will meet with xi jinping against backdrop of rocky u.s.-china relation. since last year, we ve seen the ccp launch a spy flight and flighter jet come within 400 feet over the south china sea and troubling reports over tiktok surveillance and on friday he will meet with mexican president obrador about migration at the southern border. cleaning crews working around the clock to clean up crime-ridden san francisco ahead of that summit. carley: forri
summit, and meeting with xi, the white house likely to face questions what to expect with u.s. and china relations at a tipping point like we have seen over the last several months. and talk about what you have been mentioning at the top of the last hour, the attacks on u.s. and coalition forces across the middle east. now more than 50 attacks. u.s. launching a fresh round of airstrikes overnight, trying to target some of the iranian proxies that have been carrying out the attacks. at least six fighters were killed on the missile strikes, and so far no reports of any injuries to any of those u.s. service members who were carrying out the attack or the attacks the iranian groups fired. a tit for tat, as for president biden, he has not spoken to reporters today. he got back to the white house a little earlier today to welcome the las vegas hockey team in the east room, but also an event later this afternoon with the president of indonesia. see if the president weighs in not onl
ainsley: we begin this hour with big news in the race for the white house. last night, right here on the fox news channel, south carolina senator tim scott announcing he is suspending his presidential campaign. brian: all right. the now former republican presidential cap democrat says he won t endorse another candidate at this time. steve: peter doocy joins us right now as details as president biden ramps up his campaigning as he hits the road tomorrow, peter? and, senator tim scott will not be moving here in january of 2025. he will not be the trump alternative to republican primary goers and caucus goers. he says that voters have been telling him not now, tim. i go back to iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate. i am suspending my campaign. steve: who benefits from that? reuters reports in the moments after scott dropped out, two major donors to his campaign told reuters they would switch their support to haley, who like scott, hail hails from the st