you, mike. that s right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it s really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. conflict is always a last resort. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn t want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. would you support that. if the american people support this, the congress will follow. so, you re saying that the option to authorize war powe
what is the white house saying not much apparently not publicly now joining us live. the president has been monitoring isolating in the residence here saying he is feeling well and beginning strict isolation measures and to be conscientious of any executive residence of secret service and other staff whose duties require the proximity to him. that there were six close contacts and none have tested positive after new questions arising how strictly he adhered to cdc guidelines after seeing not masked at public appearances recently. this comes with the possible pelosi stop in taiwan. you can see it located between the announced stops between singapore and malaysia. and left off the itinerary that you could keep the chinese guessing if she doesn t go it would signal weakness and call into question alliances in the region. the white house has not advised policy not to go to taiwan but have reassured beijing the one china policy has noted changed. an adversary or an enemy a
pundits about whether we re in a recession. if you look at our job market, we see signs of economic progress in the second quarter as well. bank of america, citigroup, j.p. morgan, they have all said nothing in the data is consistent with the economy being in a recession. you don t think this is an indicator of an impending recession or one here? 64% of americans say otherwise. here s what some folks told fox digital this week. i believe we re in a recession. have you checked gas prices lately and the interest rates? clearly we re in a recession. people are not going to have money to adjust to the prices. people buy less. people don t want to buy anything. lauren simonetti and joe concha are standing by. first to the white house correspondent jackie heinrichs live on the north lawn. good afternoon. good afternoon. as far as the white house is concerned, this is not a recession at all. the administration has been trying to get ahead of the numbers since at leas
Well, good evening, im laura coates. A week that began with Merrick Garland being accused of weaponizing the Department Of Justice against republicans ends with one of the most powerful democrats in washington, d. C. Now indicted for corruption. The chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, new jersey senator bob menendez stands accused of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. Essentially using his official position to force someone to give him something of value. Tonight, we are taking a deep dive into all of it from the investigation to the indictment and, of course, the political fallout and here are the Big Questions ive been asking all day, after seeing all the reports ive cut through all of it, here are the real questions, number one, did he do it . Right did he do it . Could a senator who left a hung jury in his last trial for conspiracy, bribery and Honest Services fraud, sound familiar, led to
i sign off on all military weapon sales. can i tell you we have a problem with our defense industrial base. the weapons i signed off on taiwan, # 2 weapon sales, i signed off three years ago. and they have yet to go into country. with that, let s bring in our panel fox news senior political analyst juan williams, ben domenech editor-at-large. and fox news chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream. she is also the author of the new book the love stories of the bible speak. biblical lessons on romance, friendship and faith. we look forward to reading that panel, welcome. so, shannon, let s start with you. we have got a bipartisan delegation in taiwan a lot of tension chairman mccaul saying we have a problem getting weapons where we need them in a hurry. critical things that people talk about ukraine and say we should have had things in earlier there. we knew it was coming. but now we are spread even more thinly as he said years ago some