together. utah republican senator mitt romney who ran the salt lake city winter games has been pushing for a diplomatic boycott since march. he wrote in the new york times on march 15th let us demonstrate our repudiation of china s abuses in a way that will hurt the chinese communist party rather than our american athletes. reduce china s revenues, shut down their propaganda and expose their abuses. here is how speaker nancy pelosi from may. so honor your athletes at home. let s have a diplomatic boycott if in fact this olympics takes place. silence on this issue is unacceptable. it enables china s abuses. unlike the president carter, moscow olympic boycott of 1980 this would allow athletes to compete but keep the v.i.p. delegation here at home. bill: more to come on this at some point very soon likely. mike emanuel, thanks. dana: for more on this let s
else the optics of holding the olympic games in china given the regime s human rights record. president biden announced a diplomatic boycott which means no administration officials will attend. it doesn t mean that the athletes won t go. critics want something stronger, here is chief washington correspondent mike emanuel. the white house says the united states will not send a v.i.p. delegation to this winter s beijing olympics. u.s. diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the prc s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in jing jiang. today after reporting suggested a boycott was coming china s foreign ministry reacted with anger. those politicians who clamor for boycott for political self-interest are showing off and hyping things up. no one cares whether they come or not and it has no influence
disprove the stereotype of north koreans being cold and militarist. there has been plenty of diplomatic gamesmanship going on around these olympics. and our paula hancocks has been following it all there live at the winter olympic games in pyeongchang, south korea. pau paula, from what you ve seen, who s winning the optics war here? is it north korea? south korea? the united states? who s in play? george, you can certainly say that north korea has come out of this fairly well. when you consider the optics, you consider the symbolic photos that we re seeing of handshakes between the president of south korea, and kim yo jong. you can see right now, there s a performance going on by the north korean arts troupe in seoul, where the south korean president is sitting next to kim jong-un s sister, enjoying the performance. and there was a women s ice hockey team last night, a joint north/south korean team that was playing, and you had once again the north korean vip delegation in the crowd
here. threatened israel to this day now in about two hours or so the vip delegation will move down here to his family farm. there will be a burial a very small group of people. maybe only about 100 or so people will be at the burial. he will be buried next to his second wife and long time family farm here in the southern part of israel. back to you. thank you very much. and then of course coming up at 7:00 a.m. log on to foxnews.com to watch a live streaming of the funeral service. now to a fox news alert. scary moments for 124 passengers when the plane lands at the wrong airport and almost careens off the cliff. it was supposed to stop in branson missouri but touched down from an airport 7 miles away with a runway half of the size. the poo i lot h pilot hit th bre brakes so hard he could smell burnt rubber.
a lot of personalities there, yes? there are certainly going to be a lot of personalities, but they make up sort of the vip delegation. there are apparently 90 or so heads of state, and all other the other personalities you have been mentioning, oprah and bono and all sorts of people coming, but the bulk of the people will be ordinary people. they will be south africans who have been invited to come to this iconic soccer stadium. it is the stadium where nelson mandela gave his first speech after being released from prison, and it s very important. it s also the stadium, one of them, where one of the world cup matches were held in 2010, and that was that went off beautifully. you know, back then, people were worried, oh my goodness, can south africa get through the world cup? what about security, what about infrastructure? and of course, they got through with flying colors. nobody is doubting the memorial tomorrow will go off just as well. we will be watching very,