and millions more worldwide. now new revelations about the mysterious origin of covid. mark esper is here live. f-16s are not the key capability of that offensive. sean penn pleads with president biden to send fighter jets to ukraine or the actor says there will be, quote, blood on our hands. sean penn joins me and president xi and his military leadership have doubts today about whether they could accomplish that invasion. and china, russia and the united states reach a critical point in the ukraine war, the cia says beijing is having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan and a significant admission from the head of fox news, acknowledging the host on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and this is a special edition of t the situation room. tonight, new questions around the center of the co
weapons it needs today because they cannot supply taiwan after the war starts. it s an island. the expectation china will encircle it. so they want to defend it today in advance of the 2027, 2025. there is genuine concern that president xi, this is part of his making history, getting taiwan. standby, jim. i will get back to you shortly. right now i want to bring back cnn s david who is reporting from china for a listening time. he is now back in washington. what is beijing saying about this? beijing want to portray itself as a global peacemaker. if you go back a year ago to when we were in the midst of the start of this invasion from russia into ukraine and you thought about just coming out of the beijing winter olympics, that was a time when president xi wanted to portray china a different light amidst the covid outbreak, and the relationship between xi and putin was
ready. to invade taiwan by the year 2027. doesn t mean they made a decision to do so. but they put their forces, told them in effect to prepare for it by that time there s a minority viewpoint. it s not by 2027, but perhaps as early as 2025. and because of that, with the u.s. is doing now on its allies, they believe they need to get taiwan, the weapons, defenses it needs because of china were to do that, they can t supply taiwan after the war starts as it s happening in ukraine today. it s an island of course, the expectation is china wouldn t circle. it, so they want to defend it today in the years in advance of 2027 there is genuine concern that xi jinping, this is part of his making history. getting taiwan to reunite stand by, jen, we ll get back to you shortly. right now i want to bring in, bring back david culver, who s reported from china for a long time. he s now here in washington. what is beijing, david, saying about? all this
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