Latest on our top story. Jon, the 11 russian chinese warships near alaska represent the largest combined armada from both countries to ever sail so close to the United States and history. The pentagon says there is no interaction within the u. S. Military assets. General keane spoke earlier offer the following warning progress china has considerably warships vent our navy does they have more airplanes, they have more missiles we have got to catch up we have to move with a sense of urgency. Quickly u. S. Navy dispatch for warships in a pa Reconnaissance Plane to shatter the russian and chinese Flotilla Course the u. S. Military routinely does the same thing to both russia and china sailing warships and sending spy planes near both countries while keeping just outside territorial waters but we call that chinese Fighter Jet Buzz the u. S. Air force wsrc 135 Reconnaissance Plane in the South China Sea back in may wasnt exactly sightseeing russians and chinese are just returning the favor w
Lucas has more from delaware. 11 warships in all. InterNational Waters off the coast of alaska early last week. The largest in u. S. History. There was no reaction between the chinese warships that a spokesman went on to say in a statement to fox north come acty monitored the naval patrol that operated near alaska early last week. Aaron maritime assets under our command conducted operations to make sure that the defense of the United States and canada that patrol ended up in National Waters and the patrol is not a threat. Guiding Missile Destroyers to shadow that appeared the u. S. Navy routinely does the same thing to russia and china sailing warships and Flying Spy Tray spy planes towards each country. Rc 135 our aircraft back in the South China Sea in may. Officials say the russian and chinese are just returning the favor. Dan sullivan says he is concerned about this saying this is unprecedented in terms of the size and scope of this joint naval tax force between russia and china wo
republicans who are refusing to take action on an issue they clapriority. and asked the question whether they re smart enough to get away with it, which i actually, you know, started thinking over the past couple days. you ve got all of these republicans who are following this guy from louisiana, who just sort of stumbled into the speakership and doesn t seem to be that effective. this guy is now putting around the republican s political neck an open border for the next eight months and all that that brings, the collapse of ukraine, to former soviet kgb agent s invasion, and the refusal to fund israel in its time of need. so you have all of these republicans in the house, a lot of them who want to do the right thing but they re blindly following this young, inexperienced speaker who is blindly following there you go. a guy with 91 counts against him. that s the important point right there. yes, it s speaker johnson voicing this, but he is a vessel for what donald
ohio and i think he has much to teach us about how to win in november for democrats. the recipe to the secret sauce for democrats. and alex, i don t know if you have a policy on this. maybe you do. what s your policy when a guest shows up in formal wear. i celebrated, lawrence. mine is just no comment, no questions. black tie, where have you been, i don t think that it s i think it s because you expect your guests to arrive like. that it throws me every time. and that s all i m going to say about it, okay? i am not going to,. and we ll know who the guest is momentarily. the audience will figure it out. they can ask their own questions on twitter. who knows. i ll be watching. thanks alex. have a good show. we have breaking defendant trump news tonight, but first, secretary of defense lloyd austin offered a new description today of how president biden will respond to the attack in jordan that killed three american personnel. i would just tell you tha
biden says he has decided how the u.s. will respond to the deadly drone strike. the lead starts right now. president biden pointing blame, holding iran responsible in part for a deadly drone strike that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan. how to strike back against the enemy so as to deter further attacks while also avoiding a wider military conflict? a pentagon spokesperson will be here. plus, undercover raid. israeli forces in disguise dressed as medical staff, civilians, even a woman in a he job. see the video cnn obtained showing the operation in action. and democratic congresswoman cori bush under federal investigation for allegedly misusing campaign funds and hiring her husband for security. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. president biden says he has decided how the u.s. will respond to the deadly drone attack on american troops, as peer has grown on capitol hill that retaliating against iran could lead to a wider wa