everyday americans. listen. i didn t change my mind. i never changed at all. this is fighting inflation. we ve closed loopholes and didn t raise taex. it doesn t raise taxes. it is an investment. i won t be responsible for inflaming the inflation rate. it is a red, white and blue deal. his colleagues in the senate disagree. pat toomey said manchin got duped. he got taken to the cleaners. the same gimmick he said he was opposed to. they claim the revenue over a 10-year window from the tax increase and price controls and then the expenditure they knowledge they pretend it will only be three years. these numbers are very dubious. the new york post editorial board call it joe manchin s anti-made in america bill. sinema was absent from the recent round of talks. silence is stressing out democrats who desperately need her vote. we got art laffer, economic advise hor to former president reagan in focus today but first edward lawrence joins us from the white house. the re
next several hours. now the island of taiwan says they re on high alert for a possible incoming from china. china telling its troops stand by in battle formation and be ready for all incoming enemies. listen to this warning from china to speaker pelosi. if house speaker pelosi insists on visiting taiwan, we will defend our territorial integrity. as to what measures we ll make, we ll see if she dares making a visit. martha: john kirby joins me now off of a very active news conference that went on for quite a while. john, welcome. good to have you with us today. good to be with you. martha: sounds like you re saying nothing to see here. nothing has changed. everything is fine. the drama is coming from the media. you have to realize that we ve sent the seventh fleet in there and the ronald reagan. things have escalated and it s coming from china. and their war of words more than anything else. we re not believing this on the media or saying there s nothing to see. ther
itinerary but there is rumor she will visit it. bill: she would be the highest u.s. ranking official since gingrich did it in 1997. here is what newt gingrich said earlier today. the chinese communist dictatorship doesn t tell the american speaker where they can or can t go. you have to stand up to them or they will interpret it as a sign of weakness and they will grow even more aggressive. bill: greg palkot begins our story in london. big story. hello to you. big story, a lot of developments. nancy pelosi has started her asia trip that could include the taiwan stop and guess what? china is still not liking that at all. house speaker was in singapore meeting with its president and prime minister and scheduled to visit malaysia and south korea and japan. on the way she could make that visit to taiwan. continued some aggressive military exercises over the weekend. live fire drills off the coast in the direction of taiwan which is only about 80 miles away. its government
picked special master. this is really a put up or shut up moment for team trump. judge raymond dearie ordering the trump team to back up his out of court claims that the fbi somehow planted evidence during their search of mar-a-lago. back it up or put up or shut up as they say. the search that turned up more than 100 classified documents. the judge wants it to give him a sworn declaration with a list of specific items they claim were planted. that s the thing. this is about facts. it s about evidence. you can t just make wild accusations in court without a shred of evidence even if that is your main m.o. out in the court of maga opinion. the judge also considering testimony from, quote, witnesses with knowledge of the relevant facts and let s not forget the former president would have you believe he could declassify documents just by thinking about it, which is not a thing. senate republicans not buying that either. up here we take it very seriously. people can get hurt. pe
telling cnn authorities did not believe that the former president and his aides had returned all the documents, and of the materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i want to bring in sarah murray, covering the story for us. and state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good to see you both. we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions with of withheld materials, what else can you tell us? part of what made this perplexing to the people in donald trump s orbit was that his attorneys were engaging on this issue, this notion that he took documents with him when he left the white house that the justice department wanted back, but what we are learning is authorities were suspicious that the trump team wasn t being truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents, that they weren t putting forward everything that they had available, and they were also concerned that some of the documents could potentially