category here is national security correspondent jennifer griffin. f-35 fighter jet and a 1 abrams tank sur gas to radio and handheld radio all have in common? all rely on rare earth minerals. make up the world s high tech electronics. right now china controls nearly 90% of the supply of rare earth minerals a supply chain so crucial to national security that the defense department submitted its own legislative proposal to the house armed services committee asking for $253.5 million to build up a bigger mineral stockpile. we cannot continue to rely on our adversary especially china. it s initiative that has rare bipartisan support. mark kelly introduce legislation legislation to create a larger stockpile along with more incentive to mine these minerals
proposal to the house armed services committee asking for $253.5 million to build up a bigger mineral stockpile. the chinese government has formally requested a meeting with u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin who will be in singapore next week for a high level defense meeting to discuss managing competition. anita. anita: it s interesting it took a rare earth mineral to bring about rare bipartisan support. such an interesting report. thank you so much. john. john: you know where they have a lot of rare earth minerals, alaska. state department quietly adding back a line on the taiwan fact sheet, states the u.s. does not support taiwan s formal independence from china, the line was restored after china rebuked the u.s. for political manipulation and petty act of fictionalizing. and underscores the biden administration mixed messaging over backing taiwan against
busy in a way that we really haven t seen it in quite some time. they started setting post-pandemic travel records beginning on friday, and that s likely continue to accelerate as we get close to the thanksgiving holiday. the forecast from aaa says that 53.5 million americans are expected to travel during this holiday period. that s up 13% from a year ago in general. it s up 80% as far as air travel is concerned. but remember, last year at this time, we didn t have a vaccine, we still have a lot of places enforcing travel restrictions. that s all gone now and people are looking forward to getting back to their families and getting back to some of these traditions. now, the concern about the tsa comes out of numbers that came out about a month ago, that said that only about 60% of tsa workers were vaccinated and there were comments then from the union representing those workers that if that vaccine mandate that goes into effect tomorrow was enforced, they would have trouble staffing the
will miss this week s strictly because of a back injury. he tweeted that doctors had advised him to rest and promised to return fighting fit for next week s show. it comes a day after robert webb pulled out of the series. the actor, who had open heart surgery two years ago, said he realise he had bitten off more than he could chew. a banksy artwork which shredded itself at a previous auction, has sold for a record £16 million. called love is in the bin, it s what remained of the artist s live destruction of his piece girl with balloon, which sold for £1 million in 2018. it went under the hammer at sotheby s in london, selling for vastly over its £4 million to £6 million guide price. do you remember yesterday we were saying the guide price initially was £3.5 million? haw saying the guide price initially was £35 million? saying the guide price initially was 53.5 million? saying the guide price initially was £35 million? saying the guide price initially was 53.5 million? saying
fund-raising numbers before the election and hillary clinton more than doubles donald trump in cash on hand in the homestretch. in the first three weeks of october, trump raised 61 million while clinton took in 101 million. clinton outspent trump 87 million for him on 125 million for her, and in cash on hand, trump has 67.6 million while clinton in the final stretch has 153.5 million. that s a lot of cash. this is just another way in which she has the advantage broadly. i think you will it s kind of plays into donald trump s narrative that he s the underdog that the system is against him and that she s out to just raising money. he was criticizing her ahead of