these alleged secret outposts are meant to do, what their purpose is? well, we haven t had direct response to this case in particular, but we know from past allegations. i mean, the fbi director, the old one, chris wray, there was a whole government hearing on this. and at the time, china really hit back at allegations that they re running about 100 of these outposts around the world and said that these were service centres for their citizens, that after covid i9, their citizens needed access to things like renewing driver s licence and other consular services, and that that s what these outposts were all about. so they are denying this kind of full scale. i think from the us perspective, very similar to what we saw, if you remember, with the kind of spy balloon drama. they re really hitting back at china s assertions that this is nothing to see here. the us says that this is very calculated. this is all a part of efforts to strengthen xi jinping, hold on china, and to
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and unfortunately, all it takes is one tenth of 1% who decides they need to take up arms and as we have seen with attacks on fbi field offices, with threats to judges, this is not some idol supposition. that threat is real. it s occurring, and it s ongoing. and these hearings and the projected next two years of hearings are going to do nothing but fan that flame of the crazy edge who is willing to go out and engage in violence. if they wanted to do a legitimate weapon zashz of government hearing, you would have to do something about the january 6th scenario where you had trump s people trying to weaponize the doj, where you had an fbi agent who has now been arrested because he was participating in an attempted plot to set up hillary clinton. you have actual issues that the fbi has had. you know, the intercept story has a story about the fbi having paid a violent felon to infiltrate the racial justice movement in denver. you have issues with the new
ten years since he first met with xi jinping when the two were vice president. he wanted to make sure we were aware of what they were doing, and part of why we knew about this is because of the biden administration going back and studying patterns of what china has been doing over the last few years to discover it. we re starting to get more of a forceful push back from the administration after a lot of criticism in recent days from the gop. mike memoli, live in the white house. stay close, please, as we might see more from this. george solis, thank you very much, i know you ll keep us posted as well. vice president hairs, rolling out plant to address the migrant crisis. we ll talk about what she s doing about it later in the show. we ll take you live to capitol hill after we learned who exactly is going to be testifying at the first weaponization of government hearing called by house republicans. but first, one day out from president biden s state of the union address, as he gea