russia and other countries taking aim at the u.s. dollar. promising an alternative currency of their own. then there s china itself inserting itself and more conflicts. playing everything from peace maker. we have you covered on growing frick tions in taipei. welcome. i m neil cavuto. we have a busy show. let s go to aishah hasnie on taipei trying to see what s going on. aishah? hi, neil. good to see you. so absolutely we expected to see some kind of response from china to these back-to-back meetings not only with kevin mccarthy but now this delegation that landed today. they re due to stay in taiwan for about three days. that is a number of days that china plans to inspect ships that are passing through the taiwan strait. on top of that, the people s liberation army, navy sent three ships to surround this island a few hours before the u.s. deligation landed. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul is leading this delegation. i asked him about those chinese ships duri
then there s this. fox on top of china threats heating up and now the u.s. cracking down. from senators taking on tik tok, which could be used to track our movements to defense officials taking aim at chinese made cranes that could be used to track our military shipments. we have you covered with kelly o grady with the crane threat. edward lawrence with the tik tok threat and lieutenant general jerry boykin on suddenly a china global threat. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is your busy world yet again. it s a pattern, isn t it? let s go to kelly o grady in california on a different version of chinese spying. kelly? that s right, neil. this is the new possible chinese spy threat. i m at the port of l.a. these cranes are hard to miss. hiding in plane sight. so for context, they re used to transport containers. the concern that are made by a chinese manufacturing company are being used to spy on. they re being used to call these cranes to a trojan horse that i have s
flying over the black sea. this is video of the type of reaper drone that went down. white house officials say that the russian move over international waters is the kind of thing that could spark a dangerous escalation between super powers. it could lead to m miscalculations between, you know, two militaries that are operating not obviously in ukraine together but certainly in proximity in the region. and we don t want to see the war escalate beyond what it has already done to the ukrainian people and so this is clearly this was inappropriate, unsafe, unprofessional conduct by the russian pilots. and salma abdelaziz is live in london for us. salma, russia and the u.s. have very different stories here about what happened. reporter: two very different narratives about what took place in the early hours of yesterday morning on the black sea. the united states says that russian fighter jets essentially reading between the lines harassed the united states drone. they say
, all members of netanyahu s own party, suggests halting the controversial reforms. let s now go to journalist elliott godkin. he s in television for us, elliot. it looks like these demonstrations are growing their building. what are the what are the protesters want? they want an end to this judicial overhaul . jim that s what they ve been calling for. for the past three months or so. they ve been protesting and that s what they want even more now that the defense minister has lost his job because he became the first minister to come out. from this government to call for a pause in this judicial overhaul. and as you say other ministers are also saying that they would potentially support a pause to and they may not seem like a large number of ministers. but it s important to remember that prime minister benjamin netanyahu s coalition government has 64 out of 120 seats in the knesset. it only takes five of presumably members of his party because ultrareligious parties and the m
narrowly leading ron desantis ahead of the 2024 primary showdown. the early race heating up right now, as trump escalates his attacks on desantis and other potential opponents. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the very dramatic developments over the black sea today. a russian fighter jet forcing down a u.s. drone during an incident the u.s. air force is calling reckless and unprofessional. cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman is joining us. how did this up fold and how are u.s. officials responding tonight? reporter: this all plays out early tuesday morning over the black sea where a u.s. air force mq-9 drone, a surveillance drone, was operating, as we have seen it do since the beginning of this war and earlier than that. what s different is how this played out next. according to the pentagon, for 30 or 40 minutes over international waters, two russian su-22 fig