he followed escrowing the white house warning china s military drills near taiwan are quote an extreme reaction to speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan. president biden out trying to manage a crisis that s getting more dangerous by the day. he tested negative for covid today. but he will stay isolated in the white house until he has a second negative test. all this comes during a busy weekend here in washington for democrats on the verge of scoring a major political victory as a senate prepares for a marathon voting session on their new spending bill. arthel: straight hit reaction and analysis on china s rising threat when james joins us. live and we have fox team coverage chat is tracking the vote on capitol hill. lucas tomlinson is falling white house developments, jeff paul is at cpac for president trump will speak tonight. alexandria hoff gets us started on the latest taiwan crisis, alexandria. this morning officials in taiwan reported 14 chinese warships and 20 planes cond
house remain adamant the u.s. does not desire escalation or a change to the status quo. taiwan is a democracy that sees itself a sovereign for the chinese communist government used it as their territory bred yesterday china announced communication has been cut off with the u.s. and several major areas including military and climate policy. the biden ministration believes senior level military conversations may still take place. trent has also issued unspecified sanctions get speaker pelosi and her family, arthel. alexandria in washington, thank you. , mike. mike: more on this let s bring in james the heritage foundation vice president of national security and foreign policy. he is also a retired army lieutenant colonel, welcome. click say it s good to be with you. quick so speaker pelosi goes to taiwan, the chinese are doing all of this stuff to make it look like they re really unhappy unhappy. to show they are really unhappy, in your view was she right to
shows bill nelson is a slight edge at this point but within the margin of error of 1.4%. as for the governor s race come you ve got injured gillam kalihi desantis by 2.6%. that is within the margin of error. out of these races really tossup to go either way. i will say this. those little edges the democrats have been both races right now are smaller than they were on friday. what that may mean we shall see tuesday night. arthel: people have to get out to vote for whoever you want to win. so much for the sunshine state, phil keating. the rainy state today. immigration as we ve been reporting is one of the top issues this midterm. president trump to make a central focus of his rally. while immigration concerns drive voters to the pole? heritage foundation vice president of national security and foreign policy, it jams
the finish line. both president obama and trump have rallied their party bases in florida where the governor and senate races are hotly contest within the nations largest swing state. phil keating is in tallahassee, florida with the latest on those contests. hey, phil. hi, rachel. today the most state of florida is the final day for an in-person early voting and despite the sunday rain injury miss in tallahassee coming here at the courthouse the flow of voters in and out voting early has been steady all day. florida republicans the place to be last night was in pensacola for president trump and vice president and headlined another midterm rally for governor rick scott running for the son of former congressman ron desantis running for governor. an hour ago governor scott treated updates. another great rally in pensacola last night. amazing to see so much energy in the crowd. we only have two days left until election day.
and the vice president come a doubleheader. what is your view on the fact we saw thousands of people lining up now even though the rally is still six hours away? i have to tell you there is so much excitement about his beard people are looking forward to welcoming the president and the vice president here in east tennessee in chattanooga. the lines are very long. there s a lot of energy. thousands of people have sought to get reservations to get in that arena tonight. this is going to be a great event and help us with our message that tennesseans want to make certain that we have more constitutional judges. we secure those tax cuts and that we secure our southern border. eric: you talk about this race being so tight. it was neck and neck. you are down to one point. now you ve pulled ahead according to the polls.