five people on board that vessel. one of them is said to be british billionaire explorer amesh harding. secretary blinken said u.s. and china have stabilized deteriorating relations. the meeting with xi jinping did not result in a plan to improve the communications between the country s myrtle. we will ask former president trump about that in a minute. more than 100,000 customers in the southern u.s. were without power today following damaging scattered storms leaving residents searching for relief as sweltering temperatures continued to scorch that region. power outages for some customers in texas could stretch late into this week as crews scram to be make repairs. u.s. markets were closed today for the juneteenth holiday. mr. president thanks for the time. thank you. bret: i have asked the same question to all candidates i have interviewed this year and that is this. what do you think is the most important issue facing the country right now? so many so important but
lucas tomlinson live in the north lawn of the white house, luck s. lucas: in addition to blaming the trump administration, also says evacuation should have started much sooner this as chinese forces launched 71 fighter jets and bombers to conduct a simulated attack earlier. lawmakers reacted on your show. the biden administration doctrine of appeasement, it s time we move beyond that, it s that we move to a place where we are exhibiting the strength. our national security drives much of our economic security these days. i m concerned about the russia-china discussions that we are seeing and i think we have to be very careful to not make inflammatory staples that in any way put on fire. third division head in japan, 370 miles away from taiwan, the recent years the marines have been gaming how they would respond in invasion of taiwan with antiship missiles to sink warships. the u.s. was hitting 90 targets and in a war with china officials say you re looking at a thousand
democrats who participated in a gun violence protest inside the general assembly we ll talk to one state lawmaker what calls the move a very dangerous precedent. a violent start to the holiest week in the middle east. new air strikes in response to dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip in lebanon. we re going to bring you a live report from jerusalem. plus, classified documents detailing u.s. and nato plans on ukraine posted to social media we ll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story about how the pentagon is responding and it has been six months since hurricane ian decimated parts of florida we go back and see how communities there are rebuilding and we begin this hour with that extraordinary move in tennessee where the republican-led state house voted to expel two democratic lawmakers for an alleged rule violation for the first time in the state s history. people were removed from elected office before there, but never for violating decorum rules. j
ever get this stuff, this back would be please, please, please could we have it back? bret: and they asked for that. they did ask for it? no. i gave them some. bret: gave them documents back and then they said they went to doj to subpoena you. which they have never done before. bret: why not just hand them over then? because i had boxes i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. i don t want to hand that over to nara yet. and i was very busy. as you have sort of seen. let. bret: yeah, according to the indictment you tell this aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers to say you had fully complied with the subpoenaed when you hadn t. but i send over take boxes out. these boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things, golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes, there were many things. iran, much more. war documents with iran. not that i know of. everything was declassified. and biden didn t have the right to do that because he wasn
ukraine separately from what s going on from china s threats to taiwan. they are directly related and it s necessary for the united states to back ukraine to prevail so we can make sure that nato is strong and we can focus on the chinese aggression problem in taiwan. but certainly this is direct line from joe biden s precipitous withdrawal from afghanistan. that was a nato mission. that was a huge blow to nato and opened the door to signal to russia that they could invade ukraine because the united states simply isn t willing to do the task of being global leader. molmolly: we appreciate it. griff. griff: well, ukrainian forces prepare for a counteroffensive, war documents including ones marked as top secret surfaced on telegram, social media form with over 500 million users. the pentagon is now investigating the leak. senior correspondent mike tobin