from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
things like we acknowledge china s claim or we don t challenge it but never come out and said taiwan belongs to china. that s the core of this issue. nancy pelosi is putting herself at risk, you heard peter doocy ask the press secretary china says they ll murder the speaker. what do you have to say about that? there wasn t a good white house response. the white house keeps saying china shouldn t be upset or react this way but they have good reasons to be upset, sandra. sandra: very interesting. we note the recent chinese incursion into taiwan airspace. we put it into this chart so our viewers can see the spike we ve seen. the chart goes back a couple of years, michael. it does show the mumber of incursions and military aircraft entering taiwan s air defense identification zone spiked in april. you can see the tallest line there. they are building up for something. to your point, the white house is warning china not to over