ukraine, and those of a russian spy base in cuba. mike gallagher of wisconsin joined me now, chairman of the house select committee on china. welcome, good to see you again. you wrote this week for my newspaper that the administration is pursuing zombie engagement. what do you mean? reporter: like a zombie in a horror movie, rising from the grave the biden administration is bringing back diplomatic and economic engagement from the dead. there are three risks to this approach, the first, even to get to the negotiating table the biden administration is slow rolling steps to defend ourselves from chinese coming is party aggression like ending expert licenses to while away, sanctioning officials engaged in genocide or transparency when it comes to the spy base in cuba. the second is because biden is afraid of provoking xi jinping and the relationship spiraling out of control, we incentivized the ccp to act, no matter what we do and the third and most basic concern is that it is
it seems like it would be easier, safer just to shut up and he points out other circuit court, federal appeals courts have ruled against these biased teams. this could be going to the supreme court. as a broader matter i wonder what these administrators think they are doing. people on campus are adults, they can vote, they can purchase guns, many of them can drink legally, the idea they hear a joke and need to call a grown up i think what are we really doing? paul: the argument isn t that it is censorship but that it chills s speech by giving the speaker the idea that she or he could be punished. that the argument? exactly. the judges that appellate said the bias response team can t actually punish students, they can only invite you to a voluntary conversation at the
need. we are taking the president s word at the fact that he believes he can get 50 votes in the senate, and you know, i hope that the two senators that we ve been waiting on these months, who have come to the table in good faith and negotiated, that they understand that this is a leap of faith, but you know, assuming we get these final negotiations done, we re ready to pass both bills, and i think the caucus feels very good about the fact that we ve been able to do what we ve said from the beginning, which is pass both bills at the same time. get the entirety of the president s agenda to his desk for signature and ultimately deliver transformative change for people across this country. there s a big if there, if you don t get senate agreement on child care, immigration, prescription drugs, does that mean that you won t go forward? well, i think that we are very, very close is my understanding, and it isn t just the two senators at this point.
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this weekend, and as you have raised in your podcast whether there is a bigger issue here arguably than roe v. wade because the texas law, this vigilante law overturn jurisprudence that goes back to the supreme court and the primacy of the supreme court in judicial matters if any state can question legitimate supreme court constitutional laws by going around the court. so that s exactly the issue that the court is considering this morning. today s argument isn t about the substantive merits of abortion rights in roe v. wade. it s about whether this texas law where there s so much indication where it s directly designed to avoid judicial review, whether laws of that statute are legitimate or whether the court should enjoin it from staying in effect while the litigation is ongoing. the most interesting feature of