has been a disaster on this issue and real leadership is finding solutions, not blaming other people. bill: i see this morning the ceo of norfolk southern will testify before the senate next week on capitol hill. something we ll be watching. thank you for your time today. senator j.d. vance from ohio thanks. dana: on that note a deadly train collision in greece happened last night. 36 people killed. dozens injured. officials say a passenger train and cargo train were running towards each other on the same track for several miles before they slammed into one another. the cause is under investigation and word coming in just now that greece s transport minister has resigned over the incident. bill: another alert. members of the new house committee on china in rare agreement on one thing. the threat posed by the ccp out of beijing. how a divided congress can come together to protect u.s. interests here and overseas.
the biden administration saw there were no fatalities, as heinous as it, was let s be clear, whether you are a republican senator j.d. vance of ohio, democrats from ohio, nobody likes something like this, have been nobody wants to see a toxic fireball on their tv screen. everybody feels badly for the people in the east palestine. but, this is going to end up being used i m afraid by the republican party as a way to be on the biden administration, and on the other, hand biden is going to stay quite correctly that it was deregulation under the trump years, so the railroad industries that made these chemical trains less safe. it is that it is a political that in america, what does that mean that biden shouldn t have gone to the ukraine and needed to be prioritized, a big, but the administration could have done a bit better.
we need yearly health checks if biyearly health checks. our residents, they re number 1. their safety is number 1. sean: mr. mayor, our prayer and thoughts are with you. wish you well. hope you get all the assistance that is rightfully due to you and the people in your town. thanks for being with us. senator j.d. vance was with the major and president trump earlier today. he joins us now with more. senator, i ve gotten to know you well. you ve been there a number of times. one of the first time you went there, you took a video. had what looks like moses rod a big stick. you poked the water. when you star the water, up comes this i don t know how describe it. what looked like an oil slick. i m showing it now. there s something in that water, senator that scares the hell out of me and i d hate to think the
there are growing questions of people tracking this money. when is the finish line? you see senator j.d. vance out there, listen, this president needs to explain what s the finish line and what s our commitment to this situation? we know americans wanted out and any other places we have been involved around the world and we don t have troops directly there. there are big financial fiscal issues in this country. we are hitting a debt ceiling and lawmakers have to approve if there is another round of money to ukraine. the explanation of where it is going with respect to the needs we have here in this country. i think there is going to be a lot more growing, you know, questioning of the administration when they come back asking for more money. president biden hit one theme again and again. that was forgotten people. take a listen. too many people have been left behind and treated they are
shannon: and i think the american people are inspired by their tenacity and their courage, but they also have questions about how this ends and what our commitment is in this measure. senator j.d. vance said this, before president biden sends another taxpayer dollar to ukraine, he must lay out a clear plan for ending the conflict in a way that advances our national security interests. no more blank checks, it is past time for the president to tell the american people how this comes to an end. how does the president, the white house define how this comes to anen end? first of all, every single item we ve sent has been in full consultation with the congress, and we have really enjoyed terrific bipartisan support, bicameral and bipartisan on capitol hill for support for ukraine, and we fully expect that that will continue. now, look, it could end 0d the, shannon, if mr. putin would pull his troops out of ukraine where they don t belong in the first place. obviously, your reporting on th