teachers to walk off the job. and not even the teachers unions are immune from being struck against. 48 field employees with the national education association voted this week to authorize a strike. over at the other major teachers union, american federation of teachers president posted on x, formerly twitter, article with the headline what s behind the increase in home schooling. she says it s because of gun violence, bullying and a lack of services for special needs students. but a lot of people in the comments pointed out also because of powerful teachers unions pushing for school closures during the pandemic and pushing for progressive curriculum. so, i guess school s out for november over there in portland. sandra: oh, man, we ll be watching that. thank you. right now by the way, as we top a brand-new hour here, president biden sitting down with xi jinping the first time in a year, and a lot of catching up to go. live shot of the balloon going down. it has been
so the big story right now, president biden and chinese president xi jinping man on man as we all sit. they re behind closed doors right now. all of these issues, ukraine, taiwan, israel, iran all elephants in the room, whether or not they get a head-on part of this discussion today. what about china s burgeoning relationship with iran? that as iranian proxies are attacking our troops. will the president say anything to the chinese president about what he might be able to do to influence that situation? you remember back in march when president xi was handed an unprecedented third term as president. officials here warned this. we assess that during the course of xi s third term, they will put together and attempt taiwan on unification, undercut u.s. influence which they perceive as a threat, drive wedges between washington and its allies and partners and promote certain norms that favor china s authoritarian system. martha: in moments, mike gallagher who is central to our
harris: new information on this. so much for deterrence. 47 is the latest number of attacks on our troops in irrelevant rack and syria since october 17th. two the number of times we fired back. iran s threat is on full display with growing fears of a much wider war. iran pays and trains those killers attacking our military men and women as you know. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. our latest strike on wednesday hit a weapons storage facility inside syria. those iran-funded groups responded with five attacks targeting our people. in total, 56 of our military men and women have been wounded. some are seriously wounded. one government contractor has died. the iran-backed houthi militia in yemen claimed responsibility for shooting down a $30 million american drone. iran s top diplomat says the offensive in gaza makes expansion of the war inevitable. the israeli defense force continuing to hammer terror targets in gaza. a day of fierce combat as diplomat
joey jones, kennedy and raymond arroyo, welcome to the big to the big big tujunga the big weekend show. a new york times poll gives trump the lead in 5 key swing state match ups in nevada trump has a double digit lead and he is ahead by five points in georgia, arizona, michigan and pennsylvania. they have some in mainstream media doubting biden s ability to win in 2024. should make room for another democrat. i think that problems that democrats have, they don t know who that democrat would be right now, i don t think that people look at kamala harris feel she is ready. they look across rest of the party governor, senators, mayors and house members they are struggling to figure out who they could put up if it not joe biden, reality is democrats will probably run joe biden. even bill maher is worried. he could lose. you know when people say, well he beat trump before, yeah, things change, this is not 2020. and he is not the same guy. can he win the job? we think
to discuss the israeli hamas war. his trip is prompted by growing signs that israel s offensive in gaza is quickly losing support around the globe, especially among its middle eastern neighbors. turkey s president has gone so far as to call israel s actions, quote, crimes against humanity. he s now recalling his ambassador to israel for consultation and suspending communications with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. blinken meantime, has been crisscrossing the middle east this weekend in an attempt to cool tensions in the region. his travels have taken him to the west bank and iraq, where he warned neighboring iran and terrorist groups in the region that the us is ready to take action if american troops are attacked. to anyone who might seek to take advantage of the conflict in gaza to threaten our personnel here or anywhere else in the region, don t do it . jordan s air force, meantime, is lending a humanitarian aid, air dropping urgent medical aid to a field hospital in g