russia to this much, much more far right ideology, beginning in the late 1990s. thanks to both of you. really appreciate it. ambassador taylor and beth saner, thanks so much. coming up, that violent arrest in arkansas. officers seen on camera on a viral video beating a man who had been pinned to the ground. what an attorney for the suspect believes stopped those officers from killing her client, she says, and the contentious primary race pitting two longtime democratic lawmakers who are friends and allies against each other. what to watch in their fight that s reshaping new york politics. plus, alarming rise. what s behind more women diagnosed with advanced cases of cervical cancer in the united states? cnn is looking into the new numbers ahead. stay with us.
afghanistan, beth saner. we have a growing terrorist threat in afghanistan. i will say, i think we need to keep this in perspective. it s nothing like what it was before 2001. al qaeda is still a shadow of itself. we still have that ability to take them out. a threat that raises concerns of an attack in the united states. the head of the fbi, chris wray, said earlier this month. today, afghanistan is spiraling. facing medical, humanitarian, and economic crises that only further fuel the fierce debate over the afghanistan war and its calamitous ending. a debate that will continue long past this first anniversary. hie while the people in afghanistan are in such dire administration, the biden administration said it will not be releasing the $7 billion of afghan assets frozen by the u.s. half of that, so about $3.5 billion, has been designated for helping the afghan people. but the state department says it is still trying to figure out
planes through the philippines or japan instead of trying to fly over the chinese military. nancy pelosi s plane actually had to take a three-hour detour arriving here to avoid the south china sea and to avoid heavily militarized areas she may have to fly over. this is serious business. even vessels are being rerouted as a result of this. i think the crucial thing to watch now, brianna, is what happens now that nancy pelosi s plane has left, what does china do now. this is the time that these exercises are really due to kick off in large scale. beth, that s where i want to take this for your analysis. we ve had past speakers of the house visit taiwan n april we had a bipartisan senate delegation visit taiwan but clearly the reaction to nancy pelosi s visit is different, she s been a long-time critic of the regime in beijing but what is your take on this announcement of military exercises and encircling of the sigh land that will just described? i think we have to take this and put
about speaker pelosi s visit and the fact that she s such a high-ranking official, she s part of biden s party, she and others can t separate what she s doing from us just poking a finger in their eye, but the bigger context here is that this is about u.s.-china relations being at the bottom of the barrel, it is about china-taiwan relations and those are going nowhere, the idea of a peaceful resolution to unification looks far and you know, farther than it s ever been and the fact that china itself isn t doing very well in the year that she was supposed to have his best year ever. so there s a bigger context here and it s not just about pelosi s visit. do you think, beth, this is going to change how u.s. officials are approaching visits, are approaching outreach going forward? when they look at this pretty
overwhelming response, pretty dramatic response that we re seeing from china. i think that we will have to calibrate. i mean, i think about u.s. visits and u.s. meetings. these are instruments of power and so, you know, what i would say is that we have to be very calibrated in how we use these things and understand the consequences, not that we should avoid what we want to do, but that we have to understand and do it purposefully. it s a very, very interesting point there and we will have to see if that s how they proceed going forward because every sisity certainly china is approaching this as sort of a poke in the eye as you said. beth, thank you so much. our thanks to will as well. the senate has finally passed the burn pits bill and next we re going to talk with a woman who fought so hard to get this to the finish line to honor