pr small businesses, an act of hope.ent, and madam vice president , i want to thank yo i wanu for la that effort to ensure that small businesses have accessll to capitalaccess and the historc laws were enacted that are going to just come to ber, standing here. last year, i shared with you g a story of american genius and smssibilities, semiconductors, small computer chips the sizalel of the fingerprint, the power, everything from cell phonesan to automobiles, so much more . r these chips were invented ine invented i america. let s get that straight. str they were invented in america. we used to make 40% of the world s chips in the last several decades. we lost our edge. e we re down to only producing 10%. no what happened during the pandemic when chip factories shut down overseas. , today s automobiles made 3000 s chips, each of those ameri
0 calm, steady place to work. it has been. what i would say is remarkable about it is that nobody left during the first two years, and that nobody has left since republicans took control of the house. many of them know that they will be the subject of an impeachment inquiry from the house. they are still there. secretary mayorkas, probably the first target. he is walking into listen to the president speech tonight, and there s no indication that he s leaving. that s actually pretty remarkable, given what they know they re going to face. you see the secretary here, the aforementioned secretary mayorkas, 1000 people in that room. i have to say, i know this is wrong, but it does give me to see the average age of that room, and see precisely one mask. i realize we re in a different position, but these are a lot of very important, very powerful for the most part, very old people. there are 1000 of them in the room, and they re going to be in their screaming together for several hours,
0 you don t but the chief justice has often said that he doesn t really like to come to these things because they re political. but he s come to many of them. i think he has one he has come to every one. one of the records. something like 18. even during the covid year when almost nobody came, he was the only supreme court justice who came. we see there the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, secretary of energy. you re joining us, you re one of the preeminent biographers of joe biden. what is going through his mind in this very unique landscape with a new republican-led house and this newly-heightened challenge from china, not a new challenge, but newly-heightened? you know, there are moments for a political speech. we heard some of thoiz recently from him during the midterms and may, in fact, be hearing more of that kind if he does run for re-election. that s not what tonight is about. tonight is about being president of the united states. and i heard from one of
with a crisis in their country. do you think the president should go visit the border himself? i think the president know what is is happening at the border i think dhs secretary has been there many times. do you think there is value to the president going? i think there is value to the president going everywhere. brian: three amigo summits coming up early 2023. that s a perfect time for lobe door to understand we are going to shut down the border like president trump said or else you are going to put people on your southern border to start blocking them from hours. it if you watch title 42, 18,000 per day. 540,000 per month. 6.5 million per year. lifted and this president is visiting chip factories and going to delaware five times a week instead of administration something that has our. ainsley: a border patrol
encouraged by that. a wall street columnist said tim cook s bad day on china. apple isn t selling sneakers or hamburgers. one issue the big tech giants have that other companies don t is whether their technologies are being co-operated by beijing to suppress the chinese people. apple is planning to make some moves of production outside of china. so i would say tech companies might not ultimately say they are worried about china invading taiwan. if you are invested billions of dollars to produce chips for cell phones in the u.s. privately apple is scared about what china will do in taiwan and more scared to say publicly. so i believe they are preparing for plan b, having chip factories in the u.s.