been talking about visiting taiwan. it hasn t been officially announced because they don t announce travel ahead of time. does the white house view this trip as for getting the biden administration s foreign policy goals? is it unnecessarily provocative for speaker pelosi to go, or is it a show of strength if she decides to proceed with the trip? we won t get ahead of any announcements that she may or may not make, but i would say a couple of things. number one, we take very seriously our obligations to make sure that when she travels, that she can do so securely and safely, and that she and her staff have the full range of information and context that they need to make the best decisions. so we are doing that, as we always do with the speaker and her staff. we are making sure that they are fully informed if and when they decide to make any overseas travel, let alone to taiwan. the second thing i would like
nations of russia, north korea, china, none of which has ever experienced anything akin to democracy. so in order for japan to strengthen its diplomatic capital, he needed to cultivate ties with three successive presidents of the united states, and three successive australian prime ministers, and two successive prime ministers of india, and he has done that job marv marvelously, i think. and that s kind of one of the final things i wanted to ask you about is in terms of his legacy, his ability on the domestic front to bring the japanese people along with him when it came to his foreign policy goals, when it came to security, when it came to diplomatic relationships, but also internationally, he was one of the first to kind of ring the alarm about the rise of china. he was the one who really drove the creation of the quad. he was using terminology related
goals. biden s visit two staunch u.s. allies south korea and japan comes at a high of high tension in asia as provocation north korea have intensified and china continues to flex its military and economic muscles. joining us kylie atwood and gordon chang. kylie, we have had this reporting, we saw kaitlan moments ago in seoul that the u.s. believes north korea could very well test an icbm during president biden s trip here. what s the latest reporting? i mean, it would be highly provocative. intelligence officials have told us they ve seen movements at this test site that indicate that north korea could be preparing for one of these ballistic missile launches. there are a few things we should consider here. first of all, the biden administration doesn t really want to talk about north korea on this trip, right? this is a trip for them to shore up their alliances with japan and south korea. we haven t seen them focus very much on north korea throughout the last year of president
war. yes, it is interesting. we have learned from dr. biden s interview, she had received some letters from olena zelenska. but she is not indicated more than that. we can get ahead of this visit, obviously something that they hoped to be able to do in person and get in and all the security concerns. they are going to be able to do it in person. often first ladies are forced multipliers for their husbands. democratic weapons, tools to help convey the presidents foreign policy goals. but this was also, as much as it is important to have a high-profile figure showing solidarity with the first lady today, something it is personal to dr. biden. as we also saw on a lot of the
he shot a police officer and then a record label advanced money so he could get out on bond. this is the society we re living in today. this is what police officers are faced with on a regular basis and then when you do your job and you affect an arrest the system lets them out before you re done doing the paperwork. it is a tragedy. the people deserve better than what we re getting. bill: sir, good luck today. a tough service. we re wafrpg watching it from here. thank you for your time. 24 past the hour now. dana. dana: north korea conducting what is believed to be a sixth missile test this month. what is behind the sudden flurry of activity? russia is massing more troops along the ukraine border. why the stand-off could have a chilling effect on biden s foreign policy goals. mike pompeo on that. strength we should have