sandra smith will stick around for us today as well. and bret baier also joining us this hour as the president insists the economy is right on track. celebrates it with james taylor at the white house. first we go to white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. hi, jacqui. even though that new gallop poll shows that voters are far more concerned with the economy than the climate, the president is fixated on climate telling reporters that he s not concerned about yesterday s hotter than expected inflation reading or the stock market sell-off before announcing that $900 million for electric vehicle chargers on highways across 35 states. great america road trip will be fully electrified, whether you re driving coast to coast on i 10 or on i-75 in michigan. charging stations will be up and easy to find as gas stations are now. we ll invest $7 billion to have the batteries and other critical materials that car companies need. the white house wants half of all new cars to be el
next several hours. now the island of taiwan says they re on high alert for a possible incoming from china. china telling its troops stand by in battle formation and be ready for all incoming enemies. listen to this warning from china to speaker pelosi. if house speaker pelosi insists on visiting taiwan, we will defend our territorial integrity. as to what measures we ll make, we ll see if she dares making a visit. martha: john kirby joins me now off of a very active news conference that went on for quite a while. john, welcome. good to have you with us today. good to be with you. martha: sounds like you re saying nothing to see here. nothing has changed. everything is fine. the drama is coming from the media. you have to realize that we ve sent the seventh fleet in there and the ronald reagan. things have escalated and it s coming from china. and their war of words more than anything else. we re not believing this on the media or saying there s nothing to see. ther
no response there from the crown prince. he sat back in his chair. some people say he smirked at the question. the question was eliminated from the broadcast in saudi arabia. that is an opinion column in the wall street journal put it this way. the saudis know that they host a humbled joe biden who spoke one way as a candidate but now is desperate for the king to open the oil spigot that the president has worked towards shutting down. jacqui heinrich traveling with the president? saudi arabia. hi, jacqui. the president of the united states on camera fist bumping with the man that u.s. intelligence believes ordered the death of a u.s. journalist, a grisly murder. u.s. journalists were allowed into the meeting and evidently upset the saudis by asking whether they would apologize for ordering that man s death according to u.s. intelligence. peter alexander that shouted that question said the saudi aide grabbed his arm tightly after he asked. the crown prince appeared to sm
Now. Martha all right. Thanks. We have Breaking News right now just coming to us from the state department. U. S. Troops being told to be ready to deploy for further defense for israel if needed. Were working on how many troops have received this message. Theres some reporting from the Wall Street Journal that its in the neighborhood of 2,000 american troops told to be ready. Were going to dig into this for you this hour. Mike tobin is standing by. Rich edson will be available moments away. Well go back to john roberts who is reporting live from tel aviv this week for us. We will continue on top of these stories as we continue to get new information. Right now it is 10 00 p. M. In gaza. We are now ten days in to this war. There are 199 individuals who somewhere are being held at this moment in the hand of hamas. We know what they did to people in israel. We have seen the horrific videos over the weekend reportedly of some of the children that are being held by hamas right now amid a fr
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