speaking to the un general assembly delivering remarks to the 77th session of the asem blee around 10:35 this morning. the events are close to on time, although it is expected the timing will slide down as the day goes on. the president will take part in bilateral with the un secretary general and shortly after 1:00, give or take, expected to host with the new prime minister of the u.k. beijing considers response to the president s insistence that the u.s. will step in if china invades taiwan. to be clear, sir, u.s. forces, u.s. men and women would defend taiwan in the event of chinese invasion? president biden: yes. that is news to folks on the white house team. he has addressed, he is expected to place china and iran front and center in the comments and despite comments to the contrary, have not shifted vis-a-vis taiwan and china listen to this. when the president of the united states wants to announce policy change, he will do so. believe what we say and not what
declared a public emergency. in massachusetts, a military base now converted to migrant housing. mercedes schlapp, joe concha and juan williams are standing by. first to peter doocy. good afternoon. in the press room, they talk about these flights in serious terms. we heard about the president. he was trying to laugh off the idea. saying that if desantis will send a flight to delaware, desantis should tag along. any comment to migrants to delaware? he should come visit. we have a beautiful shore. just before that, the white house claimed that they were willing to engage leaders in texas and florida who have been bussing migrants points north to make a point about the burdens and influx of migrants can have on small towns. a cool premeditated political stunt. that is not what that is what they re doing. and so we re always happy to have conversations about ways to further improve border processing. even though she says they re happy to have conversations, she adm
added to the list of venues that are now welcoming migrants from the border. some record number of migrants, we might point out. startling numbers today for fiscal year that technically isn t even over yet, but we have broken all records in the process. let s get to it with peter doocy from the white house. hi, peter. neil, this afternoon president biden upending our understanding of his i immigration policy. more than a year he told us the migrants are coming from the northern triangle countries. that would be el salvador, guatemala and honduras. now he says that s not the problem anymore. there are three countries that are never there s fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico. this is a different circumstance. what is on my watch now is venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. the ability to send them back is not rationale. just before that in the briefing room, the white house claimed they were willing to engage leaders that were bussing or flying migran
brooke: ron desantis is dending himself, he is fighting back against accusations he gave migrants false promises. it says migrants agree to be transported to sanctuary states. listen. on the border, why is the border moreoverwhelmed under your watch, mr. president? there are three countries, there are fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico, this is totally different circumstance. do you have response to that, sir? he should come visit, we have a beautiful shoreway. president biden did not seem concerned when asked about the migrant flight headed for his vacation home in delaware.