safe as he goes looking for that. melissa bell, thanks for the report. boris. it is yet another sign of how cooled relations are right now between the united states and china. beijing is rejecting a proposal for defense secretary lloyd austin to meet with his chinese kou counterpart at an upcoming security conference. oren liebermann has more. what is this all about? boris, this goes back to essentially how china signals its displeasure. we ve seen them do this before, cutting off levels of communication when they are angry about something. a good example would be former speaker of the house nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan last summer. right after that visit china cut off a number of different levels of dialogue, including military to military, including important conversations about climate. this looks to be an extension of that. defense secretary lloyd austin was trying to set up a meeting with his chinese counterpart,
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security of the entire world. add to all of this, china just brokered a new energy deal between former sworn enemies iran and saudi arabia? this, too, is a big deal. remember, under donald trump, remember we had the strategic alliance. i never thought i d see it in my life time. it was the united states, israel, saudis, egyptians, jordanians. they all united against iran in the region. under biden that alliance is clearly dead. now the world s most hostile actors are aligning while joe forces the military to, what, now spending $3 billion on climate change every year? we should be building bombs, jets and missiles and ships, joe. america s enemies are on the move. they are aggressive. they are consolidating power. they re creating partnerships and alliances that the world better take note of while joe biden, your president, is asleep at the wheel.
building pressure on the 2024 campaign. reporter: the vice president on the tensions with china. they aren t even accepting phone calls, military to military. even during the cold war we had a hotline. isn t there a real risk of miscalculation of an accident? first of all, we do maintain diplomatic communication. but not military to military. military to military is something that we will strengthen, and we realize how important that is. we certainly realize that, and i would assume and hope that the chinese do as well. reporter: back home the president is underwater in the polls. dozens of democratic leaders are saying that they not only don t think that he is the strongest candidate, they don t think that you are the right person to be on the ticket. why do you think that? i think that it is very important to focus on the needs of the american people and not political chatter out of washington, d.c. you obviously ran for president in 2020. you want to be president. do
vice president pence, bill barr, jeff rosen, and others from the department of justice. state republican officials, white house staff, who blocked proposals to mobilize the military to, seize voting machines to run new elections, our capital police, aided by the metropolitan police, a, other federal law enforcement, and our national guard who arrive later in the afternoon. all of these people had a hand in stopping donald trump. this leads us to a key question. why would americans assume that our constitution and our institutions in our republic are in vulnerable to another attack? why would we assume that those institutions will not falter next time? a key lesson of this investigation is this. our institutions only hold when men and women of good faith make them hold. regardless of the political cost. we have no guarantee that these