arming missiles to taiwan for their fighter jet. there s concerns that they may be planning to arm russia now. in a moment, what former director of national tell john ratcliffe thinks the u.s. should be doing to address this and democratic senator joe manchin on if we are risking war with china over all of this. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto on a very busy news day. let s get to it with the latest from the pentagon. we ll find jennifer griffin. jennifer? neil, the state department has approved the sale of f-16 munitions worth $619 million for taiwan. since 2010, the u.s. has september $37 billion in foreign military sales. taipei has requested to buy 100 harm missiles along with various missile launches that can be used by the f-16 fleet. we don t believe an invasion is imminent. we re going to continue to work closely with our allies and partners to deter potential aggression. we re ininterested in the status quo, to preserve the peace that has been there a very lo
cause. tactical on the scene in the neighborhood of 50. jackie: investigators hired by bryan kohberger s defense team went to the home where the murders took place, taking pictures of the property and getting look of december 15th, bryan kohberger was pulled over for a routine traffic stop with his dad. you can see it there. the family of one victim, kaylee goncalves, is speaking out on what they hope happens there daughter s killer. well, considering this person went in there with the intent to kill and showed no mercy, unprovoked and killed our daughter, her best friend and their two friends, we are glad we live in state of idaho with the death penalty. ashley: the probably cause affidavit must remain sealed until he your honor ares to idaho. ashley: we spoke with former fbi director who says law enforcement should be proud of pulling through and making this arrest, listen. there have been a few missteps in the investigation, but they recovered in terms of how the
about maybe it s time the president really visit east palestine here. that talking about it, his agencies dealing with it is not enough. do you agree with that? i the only speak for myself. when i was governor, i knew i had to be there. that gained the confidence of the citizens is of my state if i was there. i know being a president and having 50 states. when you have a tragedy such as this, that s 20 miles from the border of west virginia, i spoke to all of their different water departments because some of that had leaked in to the ohio river. we re watching that plume. they took alternative action that wouldn t get in the water fill administration plans. we were all concerns to a certain extent. everybody has a different style. i personally anyway humanly possible would be at the statement day or the day after that anything would happen in my state, that was my style of what i thought would be effective. it s important. it s important for the leaders to be there again. neil: f
were actually sticking to that delivering the best financial results, they would stick in energy, right, allison? absolutely, it is a great investment, we need it issue the world needs it headlines coming out of it makes me question what i thought all along, when they say they are not investing in energy because it is not profit believa, not a good future, i don t see facts to support that. they don t like fossil fuels and want to push it out of business. todd: kentucky is seventh largest coal producing state, generating 71% of electricity from coal-fired plants, i think this is popular in your state, this action. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. prayers and tributes for damar hamlin flooding in from across the sports world.
something you ve heard many times on this show before, objections from senator joe manchin of west virginia. he is from, of course, a major coal producing state. he himself has investments in coal brokerages. he profits personally from coal companies, and he has said that he will not support the overall legislation if it has that provision. so as of right now the president has basically conceded publicly unbelievable. that it s almost impossible to pass the broader, this giant bill which contains his entire domestic agenda if it doesn t have that piece. it s unbelievable the way that you just laid it out, that this is being blocked by senator joe manchin, and you know, i wanted to ask you specifically about something the president, what he had to say about these negotiations on thursday. take a listen. the clean electricity performance program, that s been dropped now from this spending bill. no, it hasn t. it has not?