he followed escrowing the white house warning china s military drills near taiwan are quote an extreme reaction to speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan. president biden out trying to manage a crisis that s getting more dangerous by the day. he tested negative for covid today. but he will stay isolated in the white house until he has a second negative test. all this comes during a busy weekend here in washington for democrats on the verge of scoring a major political victory as a senate prepares for a marathon voting session on their new spending bill. arthel: straight hit reaction and analysis on china s rising threat when james joins us. live and we have fox team coverage chat is tracking the vote on capitol hill. lucas tomlinson is falling white house developments, jeff paul is at cpac for president trump will speak tonight. alexandria hoff gets us started on the latest taiwan crisis, alexandria. this morning officials in taiwan reported 14 chinese warships and 20 planes cond
chinese activity is running wild. somehow the dialogue to help that is zero. the chinese has never been serious about toxin cooperation. there s never been a real vehicle of a conflict. the climate talks are an absolute joke. the chinese use these things to rope a dope the united states. they picked the unite states by talking with us for getting something for the reality is we are giving them something for nothing. the fact the talks go away just means a john kerry won t have a buddy to tweet with. but will actually hurt u.s. interest? no it will put us in a stronger position. we should tell the chinese never mind, forget it. we re never going to do these talks again because they are a waste of time. james from the heritage foundation, thanks very much for joining us today. hey, thanks for having me. arthel. arthel: well might, it is a working we can for the and democrats look to pack a sweeping new tax-and-spend
house remain adamant the u.s. does not desire escalation or a change to the status quo. taiwan is a democracy that sees itself a sovereign for the chinese communist government used it as their territory bred yesterday china announced communication has been cut off with the u.s. and several major areas including military and climate policy. the biden ministration believes senior level military conversations may still take place. trent has also issued unspecified sanctions get speaker pelosi and her family, arthel. alexandria in washington, thank you. , mike. mike: more on this let s bring in james the heritage foundation vice president of national security and foreign policy. he is also a retired army lieutenant colonel, welcome. click say it s good to be with you. quick so speaker pelosi goes to taiwan, the chinese are doing all of this stuff to make it look like they re really unhappy unhappy. to show they are really unhappy, in your view was she right to