>> all right, you know, they say trouble sometimes comes in threes, well, we've got the threes, the russian military ships off the coast of cuba. 30 miles from our u.s.-florida shores. we've got china building this mega port just off of peru. that's kind of in our caribbean neighborhood, too, if you think about it. and don't get me started, north korea literally dumping garbage, this is true, dumping garbage on south korea, all are deemed provocative acts and certainly that the western powers were acknowledging and looking at. maybe some of them fretting about over the course of their summit. let's get the latest from other things they're focused on as well from jacqui heinrich in italy. jacqui: the g7 leaders statement that president biden signed before he departed italy, sharply warned china not to help putin's war on ukraine. threatening sanctions embargoes, helping to prop up russia. and support for russia's base, to maintain the illegal war in ukraine and has broad-based security implications. we call on china to cease the transfer of dual-use materials, including weapons for russia's sector. and china supplying semiconductors to russia. and a comment that president biden did not leave unaddressed chiming in to counter it. >> he said that he will not sell any weapon to russia if he's respectable personnel not because he gave me the wordments by the way, china is not supplying weapons, but the ability to produce those weapons and the technology available to do it. so, it is, in fact, helping russia. >> president biden has not commented on the russian war ships that sailed within 30 miles of the u.s. coast to carry out drills. and the pentagon sent its submarine to guantanamo bay, and former president biden sounded out about the flotilla, blaming president biden. >> and now we have warships surrounding cuba 60 miles off the coast of florida. how does that make you feel? do you feel good about that? and that's only because biden's weakness is putting us in grave danger. >> the g7 leaders also called out north korea for exporting ballistic missiles to russia and voiced deep concern about their growing cooperation. russia, again, made a nuclear threat toward the g7 countries for that $50 billion loan for ukraine that was produced at this summit backed by frozen russian assets, neil. >> thank you, great coverage this week. jacqui heinrich on that. we want to go to rob spaulding and you know him and respect his military service, the retired air force brigadier general and author of "war without rules." general, always good having you. kind of joking to say that trouble comes in threes. the three developments with the russia military ships and what china is doing with the mega port off of peru, and north korea, that's just crazy, but altogether, what do you make of it? >> well, if you remember, during the first cold war, we had things going on in africa, things going on in latin america, remember the cuban missile crisis. i think you're start to go see the same thing happen here, you know, where trump said that biden is being weak. i actually think he's being too strong when it comes to creating potential nor nuclear war in europe and i think we were much more careful when it came to attacking any territory in the soviet union. the fact that he's allowing attacks into russia, i think, it's getting us closer and closer to where we don't want this war to turn hot, this cold war. cold is a new adjective to describe war that only came along since the invention of nuclear weapons. neil: so, what you're saying is, by allowing and selling weapons and by the way, they're not the only ones doing it, i believe, germany and france provided weapons that would allow ukrainians to respond and attack inside russia, along the border there. but that set up this sort of flotilla of russian warships just off the coast of cuba. so where does this go? >> well, if you remember, mccarthur wanted to use nuclear weapons in china during the korean war, so, we're getting very close to kind of, except there we had truman who was much more sober about what happens when you drop a nuclear weapon. so i think we've gotten so far from here hero hiroshima and nagasaki and the potholes out in the desert. those are huge explosions. we want this war to stay cold. neil: and the communications, i know very few people read these things, but listed at least 28 times china as a maligning force. to what end? what do you think that was about? >> well, they've shifted positions. remember, russia was kind of the soviet union and china we can't care about. now it's china and rush is a -- russia is the smaller partner. what did we do? what did richard nixon do? he looked for detente with china, and get to a cease-fire in ukraine and start to peel away the proxies that china is using to distract us everywhere. korea is the same thing. you know, this whole adventure, this is north korea stirring up trouble on behalf of china. neil: you know, greg dalia, a global investor, and he's looking at history, and punishments meted out and europe adding to that with a 38% tariff on such vehicles, but that's the kind of stuff we did to japan before things got really bad and the attack on pearl harbor goes back to the way we treated germany after world war i that set up the avenge tour and hitler, you know that far better than i and we have to be careful with this sort of this stuff. history could be repeating itself. you ostracize a nation like china to the edge of this stuff or globally isolate them. you could be doing quite the opposite. what did you make of that. well, you know, so ray has billions from the chinese in his hedge fund. he's best buddies and-- >> take him with a grain of salt. >> with regard to china with a grain of salt, absolutely. neil: okay. so, that fear though that we isolate, be careful, we isolate, his financial interests notwithstanding, is that something -- you know, you mentioned at the outset, general, what we've done with russia by allowing ukraine to use our weapons to fire inside russian territory, technically, germany, france, others have followed as well. that this sets up a domino series of events that we can't forecast. >> you have to basically take into account the billions invested. and as i testified in front of the oversight committee what we're seeing today is globalized political warfare, using the internet, using social media, using legacy media to really influence democracies away from, you know, our republican values. and i think that's the real challenge we have. it's not you know, so much-- it's 99% digital and 1% physical. unfortunately, the 1% physical will kill you if it's nukes. neil: what strikes me, general, you're a good student of history besides, the reaction that the world and the united states had to the then soviet union building these military facilities and vessels and all on the island of cuba and we only discovered that, with the photographs and the rest. now see it in the plain day and it's not as if russia is hiding the latest activity. the two are not connected and the media coverage, this is not nearly as potentially calamitous now. i understand two dinner worlds, the shock of then versus oh, here we go again. but do you have similar fears? >> i actually am concerned because i think during the first cold war, we remembered, and all the national security establishments remembered the power of those weapons on hiroshima and nagasaki. everything was with a purpose and when it came to dealing with those types of countries that have those weapons. we've completely lost that here and what i would call irrational exuberance when it comes to dealing with a country that has those weapons. we have to think carefully what we do. most importantly we've got the internet and globalization that's allowing them to spread their message, you know, through social media, through the business community, through traditional media channels, and we have young kids today, you know, 30% of their news comes from these platforms where the chinese are using them to propagandize them. so it's something that we have to be really concerned about and thoughtful about and we're not. it's all over the place. neil: you know, that's a very good perspective. i hadn't thought of that, general. in 1962, the cuban missile crisis, atomic weapons had been used years earlier. and even 9/11, to a whole generation of people in this country, who were born after or too young to remember. general, thank you. in the meantime we're following some wild weather across the country this week, floods in florida, but thankfully are receding, but a heatwave and i mean a big one, that's fast approaching and could endevelop more than half of americans after this. because you know the right way to save. stop! save with drivewise and get a rate based on you. you're in good hands with allstate. can neuriva support your brain health? 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pittsburgh 93. they haven't seen triple digit heat since 1995. this could be historic if they get close to that figure and then on tuesday, the heat starts to spread into the northeast as far north as places like new hampshire. like manchester, again, close to triple digits. 97 is what we're anticipating there. you see new york, philadelphia, much of the i-95 corridor are going to be at or well above that 90 degree mark, so make sure you're wearing sunscreen, you're hydrating and wearing light, loose fitting clothing, neil. >> you know, in florida and everything else, we talk about the hurricane season and it's supposed to be a warmer one. and authorities and others have been prepared for that, as well as anyone along what could be the gulf coast anywhere where the hurricane activity could be pronounced. but this is an area of the country that's seen a boom in new, you know, new folks moving there, better than two million in florida in just the last couple of years, who are unaccustomed to this, unprepared for this. what do you tell them? >> that's right, i was just in sarasota last week and i passed by, kid you not, the development going up of 600 new homes. not 60, but 600 and that's exactly what some of the builders and some of the people in and around the area were saying is these transplants, they come in and they expect the sunshine state and then hurricane season rolls around and there's flooding and there's all the other elements that you have to deal with there. so it's a matter of being prepared, being aware and making sure you're staying up-to-date with the very latest with us here on fox weather. neil: you're always there, nick. we appreciate it. as he said, some of the flood waters are dying down and though, still very aggressive hurricane forecast where i think they said there could be at least eight, three or better category storms. the makings for a busy hurricane season. keeping you posted on that and m much, much more. and the republicans how they're saying the democrats are weapo weaponizing, the department. and no less than the former speaker of the house paul ryan is worried that the tit-for-tat comes back to curse all. back after this. t line, we do them this way. this way has people who start early. people who care and inspire each other to do things the way they should be done. this way uses technology (♪) and goes the extra mile (♪) to deliver your promises on-time, every time. this way is why we're the number one national ltl carrier for quality. for us, this way is the right way which is why it's the only way we go. dangerous ladders. gutter muck. yuck. no wonder you hate cleaning your gutters. good thing there's leaffilter. our patented filter technology keeps leaves and debris out of your gutters forever. guaranteed. call 833- leaffilter to get started. and get the permanent gutter solution that ends clogs for good. they took the time to answer all of our questions. they really put us at ease. end clogged gutters for good. call 833.leaf.filter, or visit leaffilter.com today. but st. jude has gotten us through it. st. jude is hope for every child diagnosed with cancer because the research is being shared all over the world. >> mr. speaker, you've been saying two-tiered system of justice for some time. here is the president's son being convicted on three counts. doesn't that undercut your claims? >> it doesn't. every case is different and clearly the evidence is overwhelming here. i don't think that's the case in the trump trial. and all the charges that have been brought against him have been obviously brought for political purposes. hunter biden is a separate incident. neil: not everybody buys speaker johnson's approach to go after democrats saying they're weaponizing the justice department to go after trump. it's an issue that paul ryan, one of the predecessors from 2015 to 2019, the donald trump years, even though paul ryan has differences with donald trump, on the two-tiered justice system, he thinks that's pretty much the case. >> yeah, i buy that. there's a lot of trump cases. the one here in new york i think is a bogus case. alvin bragg ran on i'm going to get him and he had 34 felony developments of it. if his name was donald cavuto, the charges wouldn't probably have been brought against him. neil: probably would have been more cases. >> i think the other cases are serious, i think the federal cases are much more serious cases and yeah, i think this is a bogus case. as i mentioned anybody who bought a gun and fill out the form. that's an open and shut case for hunter biden, but i think the bragg case, i'm not a trump fan, but i think he was totally victimized and i think that was a bogus case. that's law fare, unjustphies the means law fare. they say we're going to have a former president who is a convicted criminal and the son of a president that's a convicted criminal. >> and and that's the chase we have. and i can't think nikki haley, the week she dropped out was 16 points on joe biden. neil: she's now supporting-- >> and that's the fate of the primary voters selected and i regret the fact that that's wherer we are. neil: now, i know a lot of the folks who share your same concerns about donald trump, that sort of said, all right, we're rallying around donald trump. you had said though that would not be the case if you, you'd say that he's a populous and an author authoritarian narcissist, and character is too important for me and doesn't have. >> yeah, i don't support biden either. and i had to write in a republican like i did in 2020. i voted for him in 2016 hoping there would be a different person in office and i think that character is a really important issue. if you put yourself above the constitution as he has done. neil: what happened? what turned you on-- >> for office. neil: the whole january 6th thing? >> that's a part of it. i think it's a contribution of factors, but i think it's his character t willing to put yourself above the constitution, an oath you swear when you take office, federal office, whether it's president or member of congress and swear an oath to constitution and if you're willing to subborn it to yourself, i think that makes you unfit for office. neil: many of your colleagues, the people you respect, bill barr, concerned about donald trump and his temperament. when i spoke to him, mr. speaker. he resigned he's the guy, better than the guy presently-- >> this is from bill barr. >> everyone wants to focus on absolute terms and focus on the pros and cons of each individual, but at the end of the day this is a question of comparison, it's a question of a choice. a binary choice, and i don't think either are, you know -- should be near the oval office, but one of them is going to be, there's no doubt in my mind that it's better for the country for the republicans to win the election. neil: what do you think? >> yeah, bill is a good friend of mine. neil: yeah. >> i understand the binary argument, i just don't agree with it, it's just that simple. neil: and there-in lies the rub. he's just not a fan of donald trump and he isn't about to gunman one. -- he isn't about to become one. and he's going to write in, and his opinion is all that mattered for that particular interview. and many, many disagree, and come out, those with initial reservations like bill barr, have come out for him, as did many executives and a powwow with them and business types and house republicans and senate republicans, most if not answered, and most, if not all, said they would support him. in the meantime, i want to take you to lucerne switzerland, the summit for peace is there. and kamala harris is there representing. and this is for peace in ukraine. russia was not invited. the president, meanwhile, is not attending, he's in hollywood tonight for a big fundraiser and the democrats have already raised $28 million for the fundraiser, more than any other such democratic event in history. and the peace summits goes on in switzerland and the fund raising here. we'll have more after this. we're talking about cashbackin. we're talking about cashbackin. we're not talking about pract