there s dead can worms and fish all throughout this water. something i just discovered is that if you scrape the creek bed, it s like chemicals coming out of the ground. if you come here, i want to just show this to you. i don t know if you can see this in the camera, but watch this. you can just see that chemical pop out of the creek. this is disgusting. remediation of the water in the direct area of the spill is going to the take some time. just as it is taking some time to deal with the dirt. this is not a simple process. we encourage you people to continue to avoid that area. maria: then, communist china flexing its muscles at the munich security conference this weekend, blaming the u.s. for strain thed relations despite a sophisticated spy craft traveling above america for a week, recording images of u.s. military installations. but despite painstaking, 40-year-high inflation, cancerous materials dispersed in ohio and america under surveillance from communist china, th
most sensitive military sites. we waited until service the safely over water which would not only protect civilians, but also enable us to recover substantial components for further analysis. analytics. and then we shot it down, sending a clear message, clear message that the violation of our sovereignty is unacceptable. we ll act to protect our country, and we did. maria: meanwhile, on thursday china imposed sanctions against defense contractors lockheed martin and raytheon for supplying weapons to taiwan. the companies are now barred from inputting goods or making new investments in china, and yet china still holds the most favored nation status with the united states on trade amidst a $383 billion deficit with china. for more on all of this, let s bring in republican senator eric schmitt9 who sits on the senate armed services committee. senator, good to have you here. great to be with you again, maria.