from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
happens in the coming days. sullivan added while this decision to travel has been left up to speaker pelosi the white house did provide briefings to showcase to her some possible risks. thank you. live at the white house. we ll have much more on this including expert analysis from michael pillsbury the director for chinese strategy at the hudson institute and we ll hear from him at the bottom of the hour. president biden: justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. bill: president biden hailing a u.s. drone strike taking outlawed bin laden s right-hand man al-zawahiri killed in a raid over the weekend in kabul after living pretty much out in the open there. his death comes nearly a year after the chaotic withdrawal out of afghanistan and nearly 21 years since 9/11.
intellectual properties. if they were to take taiwan it would have strategic implications and japan. they have would get taiwan s economy. they rely on them to power our cell phones and cars we drive. sandra: what are you watching for the next few minutes acknowledging the fact that speaker pelosi s office hasn t confirmed her trip prior to her touching down there? what will you be watching for over the next 30 minutes or hour here? definitely watching for how china responds militarily. i m sure the chinese have put together some plans for how they may seek to demonstrate their opposition to this visit. obviously they will be running lots of propaganda in the media, their own media and threatening the united states with action and taiwan as well. there will be mounting massive espionage on the visit itself to collect intelligence on what
taiwan in 25 years. it is 11 at night. upon arrival she would have meetings right away with it being so late, most meetings were set for wednesday. jennifer, if you could add what we know about her schedule. a big question still whether or not she will be spending the night in taipei. it is our understanding that she is spending the night and planning to meet with the president of taiwan. we don t have a lot of details because they didn t confirm the trip in advance, as you know. there has been this real cat and mouse game between the white house and speaker pelosi s office. the pentagon wanting to not get dragged into the middle of it. there were when president biden mentioned that he had that the military didn t want speaker pelosi to go, i have spoken to sources here at the pentagon who say that is not the case. the military always briefs
at the moment 10:45 in the evening there. sandra: and this stop was never officially announced by her office. we are getting some word from the pentagon per a spokesperson there, when asked by fox news, if the u.s.s. ronald reagan aircraft carrier is operating in the sea of taiwan along with guided missile cruiser, the spokesperson emphasized these are normal deployments and locations there. this we re told is the plane. you can see the american flag on the tail. when asked if pelosi s mill naer aircraft is accompanied by military planes the pentagon said we never talk about security detail for unconfirmed or confirmed travel. we take all appropriate measures to insure the safety of members of congress wherever and whenever they choose to travel. bill: as we watch this,