everybody. thanks so much for joining us this morning. welcome to sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. communist china and america s national security, new worries this morning over another virus in china and a potential cover-up to come. china is masking up once again as gop senators call for travel restriction from the communist country. coming up, south dakota governor kristi noem on the china threat. then, the new virus just in time for america s next presidential election. is the ccp trying to keep joe biden in the white house and interfere in the u.s. election? as former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe told me last month. dissented from the intelligence community s majority and said how china was trying to influence the outof the 2020 election, and that has been corroborated. the fbi has walked back intention and said, no, china did try and interfere, continues to try and interfere in elections. and that s going to continue to be the case. m
thanks so much for joining us this morning. welcome to sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. communist china and america s national security, new worries this morning over another virus in china and a potential cover-up to come. china is masking up once again as gop senators call for travel restriction from the communist country. coming up, south dakota governor kristi noem on the china threat. then, the new virus just in time for america s next presidential election. is the ccp trying to keep joe biden in the white house and interfere in the u.s. election? as former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe told me last month. dissented from the intelligence community s majority and said how china was trying to influence the outof the 2020 election, and that has been corroborated. the fbi has walked back intention and said, no, china did try and interfere, continues to try and interfere in elections. and that s going to continue to be the case. maria: comin
forever. president trump weighing in saying direct talks with north korea not the way to solve this. i think the defense department have been preparing military options for the president. that is their job. that is what the military does. they have stressed the diplomatic angle should be the priority. secretary of defense mattis saying there is always diplomatic options. that includes sanctions, working with the u.n., working with china who has so much economic leverage over north korea. right now that is as far as a lot of military and security people, that is where they want to see this go. military options very much being readied and prepared and for u.s. forces stationed in south korea they are ready to fight tonight if need by. president trump making reference to the state of military readiness. thank you so much. let s discuss this. the mixed messaging on north korea and president s apparent