we re glad to be together on this couch. rachel: we are glad to be together. will: petition and i were talking, it s like we were talking in code and rachel s like i m not following. we were speaking in sports pet s metaphor. rachel: we do speak in code sometimes. we don t talk in code with you. we re grateful you re here, fourth hour of two days, four hours, we re in the home stretch. we have a lot of big news. rachel: we sure do. there s no bigger news in my house than our baby valentina turned 3 years old. she celebrated with a birthday dinner and we got her cake. she has come along way. she doesn t just have down s syndrome. she had a serious heart condition when she s was six months old, had open hearth surgery so we re so glad and i want to be put it up because so many viewers prayed so hard for her and her doctors during the surgery. she is doing great. she just started school. they start school for children with special needs with down s a little earlier so she s st
following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
talk of a viktor bout for whelan trade your secretary of state certainly you would have to know about those discussions is that true and why wasn t the deal made? or chanting great to be with you and i do not want to talk about private conversations. we are very focused on getting paul whelan out in every american on there s nothing in my time in service that was as joyous as returning americans home to the families got three americans out of north korea got to fly back with them it was remarkable. and i m glad it brittney griner s back home too. they were able to accomplish this. my mission was always to get every american back but the same time not create the risk of more americans would be to get in there is no doubt that today not just vladimir putin but all the bad guys the iranians, others who hold americans into tension say if you take a celebrity the chance of getting one your bad guys back out of american control is greater.
talk of a viktor bout for whelan trade your secretary of state certainly you would have to know about those discussions is that true and why wasn t the deal made? or chanting great to be with you and i do not want to talk about private conversations. we are very focused on getting paul whelan out in every american on there s nothing in my time in service that was as joyous as returning americans home to the families got three americans out of north korea got to fly back with them it was remarkable. and i m glad it brittney griner s back home too. they were able to accomplish this. my mission was always to get every american back but the same time not create the risk of more americans would be to get in there is no doubt that today not just vladimir putin but all the bad guys the iranians, others who hold americans into tension say if you take a celebrity the chance of getting one your bad guys back out of american control is greater.
we had matthew heath, he was one of these that was wrong full hey detained. we have to remember that the maduro regime is a brutal, thuggish regime. these are really bad dudes that got swapped. the two if he news nephews of maduro s wife, they are narco terrorists. any time you have people that are wrongfully detained and have to go through a prisoner swap, that encourages the broughtish, bad behavior from these brutish, bad behavior from these regimes. they see a weak biden administration and what we do not want to do is take actions that will encourage other of these regimes to hold americans and wrongfully detaining them.