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
week and begged to the administration to take action. but instead of biden being empathetic, the president was more concerned than the congresswoman got one of her facts wrong. isn t she amazing? [laughter] she was very specific in saying that a mom who lost two kids to fentanyl, that i killed her sons. the interesting thing is, that fentanyl they took came during the last administration. don t even get me started. jesse: to keep this in mind, biden gave a half-hour speech and that was only mention of fentanyl or the board. the grieving mother now taking the comments not taking lightly. what a horrible human being. how can he sit there and joke about it. somebody asked me, oh, did he misspeak? this shows his heart. you don t have to think about what you say in a moment like this. to me this shows why he just opened the border so wide. he just doesn t care. he is completely heartless. the president owes me an apology and all of the other parents who have lost their child
going to make comments on this later this evening. we don t know what form, whether he will answer questions, make a speech a combination of it. he s going to speak, a judge did not issue a gag order on any of this but advised him to watch his social media use. ahead of hearing from alvin bragg, and that could happen any minute, i do want to go to bryan llenas right now with what went down in there. again, courtesy, jake gibson as well in the courtroom to find out exactly what transpired. bryan? neil, yeah, we begin on the indictment. what we now know before d.a. alvin bragg speaks is that these are 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in new york. in the indictment, the first line reads, the defendant donald trump repeatedly and fraud leaptedly falsified new york business records to conceal criminal conduct that had damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. those are the counts that it goes on and on at this point. we
counts of falsifying business records. we are expecting to hear from president trump later tonight. bryan llenas is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan to break down the charges. bryan? jesse, good evening. former president trump charger 34 felony counts of falsifying business records here in the state of new york. just moments ago, but a couple hours ago, the district attorney of manhattan alvin bragg laid out his case. listen. donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment, returned by a manhattan grand jury, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. so, d.a. bragg is charging former president trump with 34 felony counts, that is a felony count for every single falsified business record that they have in evidence, apparently. now, as he mentioned,
act will unleash an avalanche of taxpayer money on coalition-list items like climate change. it will also jack up taxes during the recession. republicans say they will pay the price and the midterms. president biden says this is a major win. president biden: expect you to help, i m going to need you to. for example, no state medicare $2,000 to go. that s a big deal. some of us, it won t kick in for a little bit, but it s all good. when you sit down at the end of the month, you will see more bills. if you love getting audited, listen up: democrats will send irs goons for your bank account. after giving them $80 billion to ramp up enforcement, hiring 87,000 new irs agents. get this: the agency will end up with more staffers than the state department, fbi, and border patrol combined. democrats think they are clever by calling it the inflation reduction act, but even senator bernie sanders sees me that charade. i want to say a few words about the so-called inflation a