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.
peter to clear the air. i have to say, peter has held this with grace and humor. martha: there s a piece in the national review that suggests this is not coincidence. also the bull connor comments, all of it, they suggest could possibly be part of a strategy to sort of try to show that the president has a fire in his belly, that he s not afraid to push back. you have obviously observed a lot of presidents and their interaction with the press over the year. what do you think? president trump had a strategy. he spent four years calling journalists morons and idiots. i criticized that, too. president trump faced extraordinary intense media hostility that the president has not. i ve known joe biden since the 80s. he used to enjoy sparring with reporters. what this says to me is that he s really feeling the pressures of this very rough stretch in his presidency. he s not used to it even though