hearings need to be televised, publicized, and just generally spoken to see that the mood of this country towards china is felt. but, look, i think that is going to be the story of this congress is that china is the focus both on the senate side especially when you talk now about the lab leak that has been talked about from the department of energy, certainly senators are asking for more information there. you re going to have merrick garland from the department of justice in front of the senate today. that s going to be something that comes up in the larger scope of questions senators are going to be able to ask him. moving over to the house side again i know we re often aware the spirit of bipartisanship fades faster than anything else in washington, and i think when it comes to ukraine that s going to be the contention point for this committee. again, more broadly it s rare to hear the level of possibility about a select committee i was hearing yesterday. so you re right we ll e we
speaking talking about voices being silenced, human rights abuses, malfeasance in the technology space. there s an overwhelming amount of bipartisanship on the hill with regards to china and we re seeing that it s also in the administration, excuse me, steps taken by the administration administration to crack down on tiktok on government phones, semiconductor efforts are definitely a stance to take against china. recent intelligence coming out of the administration on covid are pointing the finger at china for the lab leak and failing to disclose about this. for all the noise in this town about fighting on these issues, there s one place they re coming through very much together is china, and that s where there s a real eye on the hill, what legislation comes out of that advancing bills, standing against china s growing economic influence. i ll be talking about it again when i appear on the show in the future. i have no doubt of that. nick, with former president
alternative to the russian ruble. meanwhile u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has issued a new warning to china about providing lethal support to russia in its ongoing invasion of ukraine. here s what he said yesterday during a stop in central asia. the reason i raise this not only with wang yi last week and also publicly with other colleagues in the administration is because of concerns we have that we have china is considering moving beyond the nonlethal support that some of its companies have been providing to, actually lethal support for russia s war effort in ukraine. and what i can share with you is that we did very clearly warn china about the implications and consequences of going through with providing such support. we will not hesitate for example to target chinese companies or
as we mentioned earlier, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is a guest talking about the government response to the toxic train derailment in ohio. we ll hear from a member of the house select committee on china as well as one of the witnesses who testified at last night s hearing. and also ahead, outgoing white house communications director kate bedingfield will join us from her morning joe exit interview. we ll be right back. we ll be ri. voltaren. the joy of movement. (vo) with their verizon private 5g network, associated british ports can now voltaren. the joy of movement. precisely orchestrate nearly 600,000 vehicles passing through their uk port every year. don t just connect your business. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) make it even smarter. we call this enterprise intelligence. paradontax blood when you brush could lead to worse over time. help stop the clock on gum disease now. parodontax toothpaste.