Angering the regime more. here to react fox news senior strategic analyst retired four-star general jack keane. general come of this administration and this democratic speaker are not on the same page but how does that make us look? well i think right from the beginning the reason why this thing got spun up so much, obviously there was a leak the nancy pelosi was going to visit taiwan. that leak came from this administration. somebody who was obviously opposed to it. but really what happened is when the president made the offhand remark in response to a question walking out of the room where he said while the pentagon doesn t favor or the united states military doesn t favor. that wasn t a completely true statement. they just provided some of the risks that were going on. i didn t save it as it shouldn t take place but that spun up the prc entire propaganda effort as a result of it. because they saw an opportunity here, a division in the united states government, and an
Says listen to this. house speaker and nancy pelosi insistence visiting taiwan china will take resolute measures to defend its sovereignty and did as to what measures will take let s wait and see if she dares makes the visit. speak of the trainees posted a video of troops launching missiles, taking off and fighter jets ahead of speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan. it looks like she won t go. then they now announce it again and the president was asked two weeks ago do you think president the speaker should going to suss while the pentagon doesn t want her to go. that amped up all of the criticism. then he evidently on the phone call last week said to president xi i can t control her to come of the speaker does her
That money for a minimum of nine months and suddenly we have a testing shortage? one of the questions is, was that money spent for other things. if it was, how do you justify that if you re the administration and the department. martha: you know, this administration told the american people that they were going to solve covid. that the prior administration had done a terrible job. in this administration, things were going to be very different. so i think that members of congress and the american people sort of signed on for this tremendous expenditure of u.s. taxpayer dollars to fix what people saw as some of these issues. i want to put up the numbers again. i know you say it s $10 billion higher than what was laid out. but here s the specifics. $47.8 billion to carry out activities to detect, which would mean to test, diagnose, trace, more testing, and then
Asking now. of course, it s always the problem in preparedness for what might come next is that once you get around that corner, people will say maybe we don t need that money and stockpile the vaccines or maybe we don t need the money in an eboli preparation effort. i don t think we ll need it. then you find out with the testing money that you needed it, you needed it months ago. what was the worst thing that could have happened if the tests were in stores right now and people could get them and then you combine that with a suggestion that everybody has to have even another test before they think about going to work after they re beyond the window of where covid should last. you re telling people to do something and then almost guaranteeing that they don t have the resources to do what they need to do. it s not that they don t have the money to have.
Purchase, expand capacity for covid-19 tests. what do you think actually happened here? you think over the summer and the fall when it looked like this might have been over that they diverted the money to other things? what we re seeing here let s talk about the $47.8 billion that democrats all by themselves decided in martha they were going to spend on testing. where did that money go? did you decide that if you re the administration, well, we have a lot of flexibility because of the way that bill was uniquely written so that money could be spend in more ways than you could normally spend appropriated money. where did that money go? did you decide that the crisis is behind us so let s spend that money on something else? that s the questions we re