letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that s coming up. china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, we
crimes, comes as he prepares for a meeting with xi jinping in moscow next week. hello, well come everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, we have made it to friday. john: we have, feels like monday for some reason with all the news happening. john roberts in happening. the icc claims putin is responsible for overseeing the unlawful abduction and deportation of children from ukraine to russia. moscow is calling the move meaningless. sandra: chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon l. what impact will this have in the short-term on vladimir putin? well, sandra, the announcement from the hague international criminal court could have an impact on whether xi of china goes ahead with a meeting with putin. if he does, he will be meeting with an alleged war criminal, now has an arrest warrant issued for the mass abduction of ukrainian children taken to russia and placed infiltration camps. modern day equivalent of the camps during world
jean-pierre, and john kirby as the irs continues to stay silent amid growing questions over why the agency made a surprise visit to twitter files journalist matt taibbi s home, the same day he was testifying before congress on the weaponization of the federal government. john: house republicans are demanding answers over the unannounced house call and whether biden s beefed up irs will target democrats political opponent. is the agency being weaponized? here to weigh in coming up. we are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict or destroy the chinese nuclear development program. i have a hard time seeing where we are. please tell us what we are going to do with this threat that s at our doorstep. we are interested in investing in the right capabilities that will support the war fighting concepts. can you look us in the eye today and say the dei strengthened the military or weakened it. sandra: our nation s top military l
nothing unusual about this. let them to speak to its schedule, as i said clearly at the top there is absolutely no reason for beijing to react differently in this regard. thanks, hi, john. i have a question on the summit of the democracies. iraq is the only arab country participating. more adhere to democratic values. summit for democracy gives us a chance to speak at a multi-lateral platform with many nations about what we are all doing to enhance transparency and accountability and abide by the consent of the government, and we are delighted that iraq can participate, and we ll see what the next one looks like and who gets invited to attend and who participates. but we would hope that all democracies as they look at the outcome of this week will want to follow suit. also in israel, you see the attitude of prime minister netanyahu disrespentful of the president? i mean, he s known to not have a good relationship with democratic presidents, including president obama, he
with president biden and putin today bolstering their respective alliances with nato and china. their pitches come just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. global tensions between the superpowers highlighted on a day of diplomacy in both warsaw and moscow. acidity many times, i ll say it again it s absolutely clear. article five is a secret commitment the united states has made. we will defend every inch of nato. meantime, as trace pointed out, with respect to joe biden s 2024 presidential campaign prospects, typically the question has been, should he or shouldn t he run again? however, now, increasingly democrats are wrestling with a very different and indeed pressing question. it will he or won t he? tonight, politico reporting that democrats are quietly preparing for the possibility that the 80-year-old simply won t be up for the task. and the longer he waits to officially declare his intentions you guessed it, a growing number of would