cluster bombs, as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he said the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. it was a very difficult decision on my part. but sis the the right one? i ll ask michael mccaul and the only house member who votes against the afghanistan war, barbara lee, next. and party of one. republican set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump s rivals are trying to e he zeros in on his closest opponent. he s got no personality. does ron desantis has a plan to turn things around. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising. a record-breaking heat wave blankets the globe. and over seas janet yellen pushed china on climate. but is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? hello, i m jake tapper in washington with the state of union is wondering about long-term consequences days after announcing his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine, a weapon his administration once refer
voters and with people throughout the state, first of all, in the golden state of california, we have at least 20 million people who are living one paycheck away from poverty. so we ve got to make sure that with he reduce the cost of housing, we have a huge unsheltered population, we have to make sure that we provide for childcare for women especially who want to get back into the work force. and we have to make sure that we fight for a living wage for everyone here in california. because people cannot afford to continue to live here because the cost of living is so high. and so the president, i believe, has done a remarkable job in moving forward this economy and creating more good-paying union jobs. but we have a heck of a lot more to do especially for states which the cost of living is extremely high and the wages have not kept up with what it cost to live in a wonderful state such as california. you are running for the u.s. senate to succeed senator dianne
united states and in what would be considered a trade action or a trade embargo. and this highlights the bigger great power competition with china. first semiconductor, i took on with the chips act and now we have the minerals, china controls about 80%, 85% of the critical minerals. we have to compete with them in every continent, including africa and south america and indo pacific and we re not doing adequately so far. speaking of the special minerals, let s turn to afghanistan. because it was two fridays ago when the biden administration chose late friday afternoon, before the long fourth of july weekend, to release a damning afghanistan report that faulted both the biden administration and the trump administration for the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. i want you to take a listen to president biden s response to that report. there was mistakes during
it will require diplomat deafness and how committed nato is to ukraine winning the we re dealing with volodymyr zelenskyy calls to admit ukraine into nato. zelenskyy said that decision is entirely up to president biden. biden told fareed zakaria that ukraine is not ready to join nato. joining us now to discuss, house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul, republican of texas. thank you so much for being with us. so one of the biggest subjects on the fato agenda, whether to fast track the push to join nato. take a listen to what president zelenskyy told erin burnett this week. the u.s. decides today whether ukraine will get invited to nato. this is today s situation. and it is a fact. the majority of the nato countries support inviting ukraine to nato. the majority support? those who have their doubts look only at president biden and he knows that this depends on
be engaging in war crimes if this goes forward? what i think is that we are would risk losing our moral leadership. because when you look at the fact that over 120 countries have signed the convention on cluster munitions saying they should never be used, they should never be used. and in fact, many of us have urged the administration to sign on to this convention. and so i m hoping that the administration will reconsider this because these are very dangerous bombs, they re dangerous weapons and this is a line that i don t believe we should cross. you notably were the only member of the u.s. house of representatives to vote against authorizing the war in afghanistan in 2001. now, of course, the state department report on the chaotic afghan withdrawal effort found that the biden administration failed to prepare for the worst case scenario and many of them