of bloody weekend with two separate shooting incidents. wholly intolerable situation. silicon fallout after at collapse. and new york community bank is expected to buy out a big chunk of signature bank for 2.7 billion. 19 at the free-throw line and a turnover. walker comes in and he scores. [cheers] steve: 6:00 here in new york city. it s 1:00 in the afternoon in russia and we start this hour and this program with a fox news alert. chinese president xi jinping will arrive in moscow within the half hour, we believe, to meet with russian president vladimir putin. it s xi s first visit to russia since putin ordered that invasion of ukraine last year. rachel: part of china s plan to counter the united states and establish a new world order with beijing at the forefront. brian: i like the last world order but we will see what happens. the chinese president wants to brand himself global peacemaker stand with ally face international arrest warrant for war crimes in ukraine
ukraine. that international criminal court. arrest warrant for him. just by virtue of mr. xi showing up in china, it makes suddenly, makes mr. putin look like he is back on the world stage. they are no longer a world order but rachel and by the way rachel good morning to you. rachel: good morning. steve: puts him back in the game. he loves that and she loves being a power broker. definitely enjoys being a power broker. and a defense intelligence analyst said what xi wants is to extend this war. xi believes that the extension of this war helps china. hurts us, depletes our weapons. that s her take. representative elise stefanik she says that the weakness of this administration is what s hurting. listen. i think this is a direct result ever the weakness we have seen going back to the early days of the biden administration. whether it was their appeasing of russia.
choices in the national security sector. let s talk about michael flynn. admired in his combat roles and as a defense intelligence analyst. also came into conflict, was removed as head of the intelligence agency. now in a nonconfirmable post. he s the national security adviser. he s. mike flynn worked for me in afghanistan. he was a spush tactical intelligence chief. he led the intelligence fight in afghanistan for us. before that he d done similarly exceptionally good work intact call intelligence in iraq working for general mckristal. he s well known in the flag and general officer community. can he step up to the strategic level when he has made forays in that direction talking recently about islam as a political entity, not a religion. it s been a little bit less