who can t afford it. martha: the dow is up a lot on that news. in less than 24 hours, we ll know if the u.s. is officially entering a recession. charles payne joins me on that. and the other big story that we start the hour with here on this wednesday, china. warning the united states saying that when it comes to nancy pelosi s trip, it s a red line for them. china recognizes obviously china believes that taiwan is part of china, that it s not an independent country that can greet u.s. officials on their own. when asked were republicans from the hill will join her on this trip, the speaker said this. i never talk about travel. it s a danger to me. so why is the white house trying to dissuade this trip? we ll ask john kirby about that. he joins us in a few moments from there. first, to gillian turner covering this story for us today. it s a story that keeps moving all throughout the last couple hours, gillian. what is the very latest? martha, this just in. the secretary
white house in a difficult spot here? the president is about to speak with president xi. we have a taiwan travel pact that was signed in 2018 that was encouraging officials to go visit. so does the white house still believe that that act, that taiwan travel act, which encourages officials and other people to visit, is that still in effect? there s no change of policy here in terms of american government officials traveling to taiwan. it s not there s no policy shift here. the president martha: so she can go. you don t have any problem with her going? there s no trip to speak to. i m not going to get in to the speaker. there s no policy shift in terms of our interactions with taiwan. martha: she s inviting people. she invited congressman mccaul. you just heard that in gillian s report. again, i would refer you to the speaker s office for her travel planning martha: clearly it s a national security issue.
the rest of it isn t real. until i hear that, i m going assume that it s his. so you have these pieces of evidence. you have the foreign lobbying, the foreign business interests that he was engaged in. you have e-mails that track that. so it seems to me it s tough to just sort of gloss over this. right? so this is where merrick garland has to decide whether or not he s going to pursue this. it s sensitive. it s the son of a president. at some point the integrity of this system needs to be in the forefront. we heard that merrick garland when he was nominated to be a supreme court justice was the most fair-minded person that could sit on the court. that s what president obama said at the time. he said this is a person that sees it down the middle. he will be so fair. this is a big test for him, this biden case and the trump case, which i want to ask you about as well. yeah, it s a big test.
administration. the secretary of homeland security said the border is secure. he needs to get four or five pinocchios for that one. he just turns a blind eye at the drugs being imported, which are making the drug cartels and these trans national criminal organizations rich while causing nothing but heart ache and misery to people on this side of the border. martha: so we talk about the children coming across. this is something that i know you feel strongly about. your colleague, senator cruz, feels strongly about it. i don t think it s a story that gets enough attention. we talk about the unaccompanied minors. many are young men and women that are basically sold in to slavery either to gang or to human trafficking and prostitution. they end up somewhere. they have no idea where they are. the cartels are in charge. here s what senator cruz said. the teenage girls experience hell, worse than that. too many of them human
trying to decide whether or not to come or go. the backdrop here trying to decide the enormous amounts of money in drugs that the cartels are pushing a cross our border. yeah, this is a great business model for them. they ll move people, drugs. what people are called commodity agnostic. they re all in the money making business and they re getting rich because the biden administration is doing nothing to stop to deter illegal immigration. the cartels have figured out if you flood the zone with people that will divert border patrol or police stopping these drugs coming across the border that have caused the death of 108,000 americans last year alone because of drug overdoses. the network in the united states are criminal street gangs that are responsible for most of the gun violence and crime that we re seeing spiking at the present time.