i m charles pain in for neil cavuto, this is your world. to greg palkot in london. greg? taiwan is under fire or the area around it. it all follows that high profile visit by speaker pelosi. china conducting unprecedented long range live fire precision missile strikes on a variety of targets in the waters nearby taiwan. the drills are the biggest held in that region according to that stop. china claims taiwan as its own. some of the six target zones are as close as ten miles to its coastline. missiles flew over the island before splashing down. exercises include ships, planes and drones. officials are calling this irresponsible. an invasion of its territorial space. earlier today, we heard from john kirby. he said the u.s.s. ronald reagan carrier group woe remain in the region to keep a lid on things. here s more of what he had to say. china launched 11 ballistic missiles towards taiwan which impacted to the northeast, the east and southeast of the island. we condemn th
apparently did not, you know, feel like that necessitated him doing any taking of the action. so and then, you know, his reaction in recent days, he came strongly to rob porter s defense calling him a man of strong integrity when the allegations first broke and then even after, you know, the black eye photos that shocked so many of us, he said he was shocked by the allegations as he put it even though he s known about them for months. whitous officials according to your reporting, white house officials don t believe john kelly s story that he took action as soon as he realized these were credible and within 40 minutes made sure this guy was out because he takes domestic violence so seriously. that s the story according to your report, he tried to sell to white house staff this morning. at least some of them rejected
the white house went to great lengths to call it the schumer shut down. schumer called it the trump shut town. it s an american government shut down. trump owns this. we received a copy of the white house schedule. it s blank tomorrow. they are in a tbd mode. they are going to likely have meetings, likely try to work bay out of this. at this point we don t know if we ll see the president tomorrow on saturday. that one year anniversary of the inauguration. we don t know what his involvement will be with the shut down. he brought chuck schumer to the whitous on friday for a 90 minute meeting. we heard senator schumer explaining all of that. he said he agreed to do a wall funding. in exchange for something on immigration. and he said it was refused by the white house. when all the finger pointing and blame sort of eases, if it does, will it give way to finding a solution a path out of this. there is some discussion of more
as you write in this piece? i think so. this is a story now of misplaced outrage. we have all of these revelations, and the president of the united states is focused on his own intelligence community, attacking them, which is really an extraordinary misdirection. i think the white house itself is in chaos, because it has several power centers, maybe five or six, that compete for the favor of the president. instead of serving him with good information, good analysis, and confronting him when necessary, when his instincts are bad. you write that a president needs aides that will give him honest information and analysis, not compete for his favor. we of course know, michael, the aides are often on tv, they are speaking to one audience at times, the president. we know that that definitely happens with this whitous. but doesn t it happen with any white house? why is this situation particularly counterproductive in your mind? well, there are always power centers in a white house, tha
well, i think the departure of a senior whitous oce house ol is a distraction. it s not the message. he s prided himself together on putting together a senior team more quickly than barack obama did in 2009 and 2008. this is definitely a setback and as i ve said, it raises the question about whether he is acting maybe too much and making some of these appointments without necessarily looking into their people s backgrounds sufficiently. so real quickly, they are now saying that sean spacer, former rnc spokesperson named white house press secretary will take over the communications director role. there is a picture of sean, somebody who is a friend of the network and we ll see on an awful lot in the comes months and years from the white house. how does this work? have we ever had a situation with a director that s a spokesman or find somebody long