weekend. i m not pete hegseth contrary to half the people that see me in the airport. they like to think i m pete. i m here with rachel and will and gracious enough to let me hang out on the couch this morning. that was tampa, florida, not far from orlando where i came from. rachel: am i hearing you don t like country music. you said that was from his play list. joey: that wasn t country. not even close. rachel: his play list is all country. will: he likes country. he s just messing with me. we share musical taste pretty much. we do. will: now a fox news alert. taiwan defense reported more than 70 chinese jets crossed the median line of the taiwan straight today and beijing deploying combat readiness patrols. rachel: we re not in trouble with the chinese right now, yikes. live fire drills unfolding as u.s. congressional delegation overnight doubling down on support for the island nation. got to frame the issues of taiwan as ccp is aggressive for a authoritarian communist
this is ukraine s water fight. the second thing we have heard over and over again is that ukraine is winning that war. ukrainian troops are brave and noble. russian troops are evil and incompetent. the ukrainians are beating the russians. in the end their victory is inevitable. now you are very familiar with these points because you have heard them every day since last february. you have heard them repeated by every power center in the united states. the pentagon, the white house, the leaders of both parties in congress, ceo and celebrities. and most consistently of all you ve heard them from virtually every single outlet along the entire spectrum of our national news media. these are the two essential themes of the war in ukraine. and both of them are lies. we know that they are lies because late last week leaked intelligence about the war in ukraine began to appear on social media. briefing slides prepared by the u.s. government began to show up among other places on twitte
median income is lass than $45,000. east palestine is overwhelmingly white and politically conservative. more than 70% of the voters in the surrounding counties supported donald trump in the last election. that shouldn t be relevant but you re about to hear, it very much is. 11 days ago, 150 car train derailed in east palestine and it spewed poisonous chemicals onto the ground and in the surface waters. after the crash, the ohio state epa found evidence of yabbial acura late in the water and streams and creeks that feed it. this was more of a concern for east palestine given the ohio river supplies drinking water to about a tenth of the u.s. population. this train derailment was a environmental disaster. not an environmental disaster like climate change is, but an actual environmental disaster, one that s hurting actual people. then it got worse. several days after the derailment, officials decided it was a good idea to set fire to the spilled chemicals. the result of that
expend the political capital here. washington lost its collective mind yesterdayyester on this. e the chinese doch spyines on on . i think this goes back to maybe some kind of old cold war worryg about, you know, about th something kind of tangible looking up at us .n my houthe joke i had in my househa is that, you know, they art e kind of getting a preview of the next season of yellowstone, yellowstone. what a riot o send you outroun on the comedy circuit. well, the chinese e are laughing s at us , that s for sure.ur the role of the pentagon under r biden seems clear , unless we re talking about sending billions of weapons to ukraine. well, the pentagon s role is pretty much one of an observer. once it s over, a body of water, will you shoot it downf at the north american aerospace defensame command continuess to to monitor it closely. monit now?controlling this balloon right now? is the chinese government withrolling the movement of the balloon or is it just floating
interior shows that as you point out the point out the biden administration actually moved forward increasing royalty fees on fossil fuel drilling of the alaskan coach that is despite their own assessment that lower fees would increase energy security for the state. the decision made by former bureau of energy management director amanda lefton and back by assistant secretary laura daniel davis. now, for her part, she said it would attract more bids and be more likely to facilitate expeditious and orderly development of offshore resources adding that the higher rate quote constitutes the most reasonable balancing of environmental and economic factors for the american public. it was switched on capitol hill but democrats senator joe manchin saying he is appalled and that the leaked memo makes it crystal clear that this administration is literally putting their radical climate agenda ahead of the need for people of alaska and the united states. and well, over at the white house,