Cnbcs karen cho is here to report on the largest trade deal for china and excludes the United States. The meeting happening now could reveal whether the Tokyo Olympic games could take place or be postponed again. Im frances rivera. Im valerie castro. A team of four astronauts safely lifted off and are on their way to the International Space station as we speak. This mission marks the new era where spacex will happen nasa. Tom costello joins us from the kennedy spa Kennedy Space center tom, good morning. Reporter good morning. A phenomenal experience yet again as we watch the Spacex Falcon 9 rocket topped with the space ship that the crew has dubbed resilience. Lifting off the pad at 7 27 eastern time a perfect, perfect evening launch here into the night sky coming up the entire east coast of the United States accelerating before finally dropping off its various stages well on its way now to intersecting with the International Space station hoping to meet up with the space station about
Kudlow, im larry kudlow. Day 12 of the barbaric hamas terror attack on israel. The focus on a rocket strike that destroyed a crowded hospital in gaza city yesterday as evidence she is it was caused by an Islamic Jihad missile aligned with hamas, not israel. Fox newss Jonathan Hunt live from los angeles with all the details. Jonathan, this is quite a story. Reporter yeah, larry are, so the question is, do we know with 100 certainty the source of this explosion . The answer is no, frankly, we dont. We might never be 100 certain given the fog of war that surrounds these things but two points i want to make here. One, President Biden was confident enough to weigh in on this and say he believed it was indeed Islamic Jihad. That was based on u. S. Intelligence analysis. And two, hamas while claiming israel carried out the strike has offered no physical evident of such a strike. One would imagine they would be quick to parade pieces of shrapnel for instance from israeli munitions if they had
Lets bind them to these international institutions. That in turn will help us get what we need. The administration is saying these things did not work. We see Vice President mike pence speaking in the Ronald Reagan building in the International Trade center, which is just a few blocks away from the white house. Staying with you, net. In terms of people wanting to see something out of china why is the white house choosing to call china a strategic competitor at this moment . To push beijing to do more north korea . Nick they are mandated on the strategy. China is the perfect perfect example of the approach they want to take, that confrontational approach signaling the past administrations. The challenge there is reflective of bigger challenges that the administration faces, which is the Administration Needs china, particularly in dealing with north korea. We will really have to wait and response to this, because the administration has said china is crucial to eliminating the north Korea
I want to thank the ambassadors and for their presence here today. Id like to turn to discussing the importance of cyber terrorism in our fight against our cyber warfare that is infighting against terrorism. Would you agree for small that our nation cyber activities are increasingly important as we carry out the fight against isis, al qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula . Okay. Do you have any thoughts related to policy funding or other legislative initiatives that we need to be embarking on to improve our Cyber Capabilities . Is a very big question and i dont think im prepared to answer that in its entirety so let me put a couple facets of the question is the second today. Were happy to come back and discuss it. It is a broad question but i want you to was nearly on the counterterrorism. I think one of the vulnerabilities that we face is that the shady figures who are willing to sell on the dark web exploit capable taking advantage of vulnerabilities and common use of Software Products ha
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