crisis. imagine what it will signal to the chinese communists if they think they can threaten us into merely not travelling to taiwan. it might incite them and tempt them to go for the juggular in taiwan. john: and looking weak in the face of this, if nancy pelosi suddenly shows up in taipei, while his leadership is being discussed. party leaders may look at him and say are you the right guy for the job but you mentioned kevin mccarthy. president biden sounds like the commissioner of the nba. just folds to whatever china wants, instead of standing up for america. he s delaying weapons from being sent to taiwan. let taiwan defend themselves. make sure china does not invade taiwan and let s not allow china to dictate where any american
to saudi arabia, a country that is central right now to president biden s efforts to try to increase oil production and bring down global gas and oil prices. then, according to a foreign diplomat and two u.s. officials, [inaudible] this trip, which was expected this month, to be tucked onto a trip president biden is already scheduled to do to europe, is no longer happening this month. both of those stops will now be part of a separate mid east trip the president will go on in july. officials are not explaining what s the cost for the delay is, but we do know that the announcement of this trip, the revelation the news reports about this trip, have really prompted a lot of scrutiny and some criticism from human rights advocates, given saudi arabia s record on those. issues as well as the killing of a journalist. this is been a country that is critical to so many president biden s foreign policy crisis
change in response to change circumstances. the washington post opinion byron, inflation is rising, biden polls are falling and his message is failing. normally during a foreign policy crisis, americans rally around the commander-in-chief. instead, the opposite is happening. not only do americans disapprove of his handling of the economy, just 39% approve of biden s handling of the russian-ukraine war. americans believe biden s policies are a disaster and his efforts to convince them otherwise are back firing. strong letter to follow there. yeah. well, the president fell to 35 and 38% respectively in a couple of new polls, and the big problem, the reason you are seeing what he just did about oil exploration is that he is just bleeding support among independence. he won independents by 13% in 2020. and the latest poll show him at 30/60 about independence. that s 30% approval.
ukraine or other countries to get into nato. of course, very difficult to see the u.s. agreeing to that. very interesting talks happening between secretary state blinken and sergey lavrov on friday. for more on this, let me bring in ian bremer, the president of eurasia group nz media. let s start with the stakes. i was interested to hear you say yesterday that this is the first major foreign policy crisis of the biden administration, when you have the afghanistan mess and continued provocations coming from north korea. why does this current crisis with russia and ukraine set itself apart? one, we re not still really talking about afghanistan and the united states right now. if this blows up with russia, we ll be talking about it through the biden administration and beyond. it does have much more significant global consequences for relations between major powers. in that regard, as much as afghanistan was significant and was devastating to the people
about, according to the white house, is covid, obviously. the thing that s on everybody s mind, and inflation. so part of he ll discuss is how he s going to address these issues over the next year. and essentially say his work isn t done, he s still got more to do. he can t accomplish everything in one year. and these are the steps that he plans to take going forward. and we ve seen the white house try to roll out things and say that he is doing things. there s still this question, though, out there, and i m sure the president will get asked about this, about where we re headed with this pandemic and how he had promised to defeat it. whether or not that s going to happen, and how he intends to do it, or whether we should be thinking about this a little bit differently. and a number of questions on foreign policy crisis, particularly with russia. there are talks with iran that are potentially reaching a turning point, so there s a