arming missiles to taiwan for their fighter jet. there s concerns that they may be planning to arm russia now. in a moment, what former director of national tell john ratcliffe thinks the u.s. should be doing to address this and democratic senator joe manchin on if we are risking war with china over all of this. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto on a very busy news day. let s get to it with the latest from the pentagon. we ll find jennifer griffin. jennifer? neil, the state department has approved the sale of f-16 munitions worth $619 million for taiwan. since 2010, the u.s. has september $37 billion in foreign military sales. taipei has requested to buy 100 harm missiles along with various missile launches that can be used by the f-16 fleet. we don t believe an invasion is imminent. we re going to continue to work closely with our allies and partners to deter potential aggression. we re ininterested in the status quo, to preserve the peace that has been there a very lo
dangerous toxins have been removed and a lot of people saying we don t want them. the president says he has no plans to go to east palestine. but should these developments force him to change his mind? we re going to ask ohio s lieutenant governor, john houston. he s here. i m neil cavuto. the lieutenant governor will be coming to join us right now and we to have these various officials from the epa, fema and others that will address where this cleanup process stands. we should say it was temporarily stored for more than a temporary amount of time. mike tobin is there with the latest. mike? neil, the work is getting underway at the cleanup site here once again. it was halted over the weekend because they had a communication breakdown and ended up with no place to ship the contaminated soil and water. they found a couple of locations here in ohio, a couple of hazmat locations to move the contaminated soil and water so they can do that safely. one thing that people here in ea
tonight with the context, from brussels former eu foreign policy advisor nathalie tocci and from new york, anthony scaramucci, entrepeneur and former communications director for donald trump. hello, welcome to the programme. there is nowhere that is safe in ukraine, no corner of the country beyond the reach of the russian missiles. and seemingly no target the kremlin would consider off limits today in kremenchuk, central ukraine, they attacked a shopping centre full of people. president zelensky said there were around 1,000 people inside at the time. the missiles were reportedly fired from long range bombers that took off from a russian airbase north of ukraine. so far the authorities have recovered at least 10 bodies, there are dozens being treated for injuries. who knows how many remain inside. i was not far away from the place won t happen. some 500 away. people were running around and after about 30 minutes, i decided to go and check out the place. the the centre was just
they were there, looking for survivors. they were told things were safe. that was not true. now they re getting sick. they are getting very rare cancers. we need to take care of them. neil: on that point, there s many right now that are saying the same kind of thing is going on in ohio. those people are being told that everything is okay. there might be apples and oranges here and no connection at all, but they re not buying the re-assurances that the same folks back on 9-11 were getting. what do you think of that? well, absolutely. just shows, you know, if i was in ohio right now, i d probably be hesitant to be listening after seeing what happened with 9-11. we re seeing rare cancers in new york. people are still getting sick 21 years later.
having your water tested. the ohio epa and usepa will engage with you. there s a number of resources available where you can call, where you can have it tested, where you can have it done by independent testing entities. that s what norfolk southern has the obligation to do. to pay for that. so people can have those re-assurances. if there s a concern, then have an independent testing done of it. and that s the only thing that we can do. keep testing it. repeat that. continue to have the air monitors, continue to have the water monitors. repeatedly test the water in the municipal system. have people with wells to have allow them to have it independently tested and the cost of that should not be borne should be it s norfolk southern s responsibility, not the taxpayers of the community, not the residents. they should pay for all of that