Hope you had a grand weekend. Im bill hemmer live in new york. Hello to you. Dana good morning to you. We want to hear more about your weekend and americas best kept secret. I didnt give it away. I gave it a tease. Im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. The u. S. Navy was forced to react in what is being called as a blatant act of aggression. Military activists say the combined flotilla is, perhaps, the largest to approach u. S. Soil. They point out the maneuver was no mistake with moscow and beijing taking advantage of the Biden Administrations setbacks overseas. This is a very dangerous situation, and ive said since the beginning of the war in Eastern Europe between ukraine and russia the real danger of what the Biden Administration is blundering us towards is a closer union between the two great powers of the Urasian Land Mass which are russia and china. Its really the one thing that we cant allow to happen in terms of larger geopolitics. Bill sets us up live in the northwest bu
and make sure it did not enter u.s. waters. alaska senator dan sullivan was happy with the u.s. response but said in a statement we have entered a new era of authoritarian aggression led by the dictators in beijing and moscow. we also spoke with the retired general jack keen. china has considerably more ships than our navy does. they have more airplanes. they have more missiles. and we have got to catch up and we have to move with a sense of urgency. and congressman mike walz who sits on the house armed services committee tweeted china and russia send 11 warships off the coast of alaska. we can pull together four to respond to defend the homeland. biden s defense budget is retiring more ships than it is building. the russia-china joint drill has ended but the fallout, bill, is just beginning. bill: certainly is. nice to see you. dan springer in seattle. thank you. dana: russia unleashing an intense missile and drone barrage against ukraine and now
afghanistan, but working in doha primarily with taliban officials and leaders from all of these other countries hosted by qatar, and trying to get them to agree to some sort of a transition, which was going to be inevitable because of the military situation on the ground failing rather helplessly, while telling the taliban, you re not going to have legitimately, you re not going to have u.s. aid, you re not going be respected by foreign governments if you take the country by force, when it was very clear to many of us, especially since they were already being all but recognized in beijing and moscow and tehran, they were going to be recognized because the facts on the ground are going to dictate what happens diplomatically, and diplomatically, the taliban are about to be totally in charge of afghanistan, militarily they already are, and all the americans can do is hope this will be without a bloody street by street, house by house battle for the city of kabul. that is what they have be