our cameras were rolling. you could look on your screen and see that moment. there was no big spectacle, no big fanfare. what we saw was the plane land, some officials get on the plane, and then brittney griner moments later walk off that plane and get into walk into a hangar. now those were her first steps as a free american on u.s. soil. now i just received a statement from brooke army medical center and they say that the standard protocol was for her to be transferred to book army medical center. so that is most likely what happened right after the shots that you see of brittney griner walking into that hangar. now, according to brooke army medical center, this is a standard protocol for her to go there for a medical eval euatio and then they don t release any more information because of privacy reasons. which is very understandable. but bianna, you and i have
sandra, we ask the question how long will she stay and what will the chinese do while she is there and after she leaves taipei? dan hoffman is back with us. there is one report a moment ago translated from german that chinese su35 fighter aircraft said to be flying across the taiwan strait. wouldn t be the first time. get your general reaction if this is confirmed in time. chinese aircraft have been flying combat missions at really heightened rate over this past year. i would emphasize that it is good to see that plane land in taiwan. we should never allow china to exercise any sort of command and control over u.s. senior officials and their travel overseas. had we done that, that would have been a gross example of apiecement which is never good when you deal with a dictatorship. i think right now there is no
and would love for it to go further as they want more land. i will ask you to stand by for a second to get a quick report on the ground. greg palkot is watching. tell us about the plane landing if you can. not since a long time ago so many people watched a plane land, harris. in fact, we got the touchdown about 20 minutes ago at taipei airport. we watched the u.s. air force plane land and we watched nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, get out. it was a monumental moment. a lot of nervousness on the run-up to this, harris. one of the multitude of threats coming from beijing is there could be some kind of interruption or interception of that flight. that didn t happen. there were so many planes up in the sky along with her plane from taiwan, also from the u.s.
0 a signal to president xi that the u.s. stands very firmly with taiwan and it will be taken as such by beijing. bill: thank you, jennifer. good to have you on today, michael pillsbury and dan hoffman and smitty. sandra: chuck grassley joining us at 1:00. bill: we ll see you then. here is harris. breaking news now with house speaker nancy pelosi on the ground in taiwan. china has been threatening the united states for days not to go there and one chinese state media commentator with these chilling words, pray for pelosi. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . nancy pelosi becomes the highest ranking united states official to visit taiwan in a quarter century. the last speaker of the house to go there was newt gingrich in 1997. china is angry over the support for the nation of taiwan with threats of major military response and reports of chinese fighter jets flying and armed tanks at the ready. both taipei and washington, d.c. are bracing for any reaction. at f
did he jump? did he fall? did something else thoop a co-pilot mid flight? these are questions facing investigators in north carolina. he plunged from a small plane in mid air. his body was recovered several miles from the airport where the plane land. i don t think that i ve ever heard anything like this. where are investigators on this? they re still in the early stages. this happened on friday. they re trying to piece together how or why that second pilot wasn t in the plane when it landed. but one thing that is certain is that his family is just heart broken. 23-year-old charles hugh crooks was that co-pilot who was in the plane on friday and the faa and the ntsb now investigating why thinks body wasn t found in the plane. the neighborhood where his body