support for the fact that u.s./israel relationship is critically important. it s historic. it s critical to america s national security and i think that will be the focus of the week here. do you want to see any further discipline for congresswoman jieayjayapal? i think we ve made the point here that statements like that are unacceptable, that we as a democratic party and of course as a country, need to stand strong behind the u.s. s relationship. it s critical both to our defense relationship. it s critical to our intelligence respilationship, o economic relationship. what i think you ll see with president herzog is strong support for that relationship. when there s errant comments made, i think it s critically important that we speak out. in her statement, congresswoman jayapal says she does bereave tlieve there are w calls extreme racists in the current israeli government. do those fringe figures undermine u.s./israel relations? no, i don t believe so. i mean, listen, i thin
i mean again, we still have not seen any communication between the u.s. secretary of defense and his chinese counterpart, and some accusations that came out at the last time there was an opportunity for some diplomacy. right. yes, my sense is there will be some of that. i think the defense relationship is very particular, for one, as you know well, the chinese defense min ter is under u.s. sanctions, which were put on him in an earlier job that he held by the trump administration for purchasing weapons from russia, from a sanctioned firm, so the chinese point of view is basically there s no way we re going to allow our guy to meet with secretary austin until those sanctions are removed and made that very clear in the context of the singapore visit. obviously the military tensions between the two sides, the south china sea or the taiwan strait, are the most difficult issue and the bilateral relationship, i think we see that reflected in secretary blinken s sort of talking points or th
forward to welcoming philippine president marcos to the pentagon tomorrow. we are standing at a transformational moment in the u.s.-philippines alliance. great strides increasing the bilateral defense relationship, four new enhanced cooperation agreement sites to successfully completing the largest iteration bilateral exercise. secretary austin and president marcos will discuss sandra: he s moved on to the sudan evacuations there, we will monitor the news. news off the top, 1500 u.s. troops being sent to the southern border as we anticipate the lifting of title 42. bill: part of the job will be ground base detection and monitoring, it could involve cameras. in yuma they had cameras on all the light stands and not one has worked since the biden administration took over. sandra: remarkable. bill: so why are they even