from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
her january six testimony. at the top of the hour, a very good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. it is one pm here on the east coast, seven pm in the middle east. and we begin with breaking news on the israel-hamas war. [sound of artillery] nonstop shelling in the gaza strip today. here s what is new this hour. israel confirms it has boots on the ground in gaza. the limited internet access is back on. the world food programme warns of growing hunger and desperation. the idf says it has hit 450 hamas targets in the last 24 hours. here s part of a report from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. [sound of artillery] reporter: we saw and heard a huge explosions that shook buildings for miles around. israel says it is using heavy bombs to collapse hamas tunnels and remove the group from power, after it murdered 1400 israelis and captured at least 229 hostages three weeks ago. [spea
salami tactics that will respond to this trip of nancy pelosi into taipei. unlike the russian invasion of ukraine, the question of where america s allies all over the world will stand i think will be more open to question. bill: the cross wires in washington, d.c. on this story are confounding. thomas friedman writes in the new york times earlier today. nancy pelosi don t defy your own president, all right? here is senator tom cotton, a republican from arkansas, who is on exactly the opposite side of that argument from earlier. bill: once the biden administration leaked this trip in an effort to deter nancy pelosi was going it was essential she go. i m disappointed the biden white house has tried to put pressure on a speaker of their own party not to travel to taiwan, which is a longstanding
do you thinkjoe biden, for example, really gets the threat that you believe vladimir putin poses to all of european security? after all, he had a summit with putin more than six months ago. he said he was going to watch putin s actions very carefully. but since then, we have seen russia consolidate its control in belarus. we ve seen russia use its energy leverage in europe. we ve seen russia send troops to kazakhstan. it doesn t seem vladimir putin is intimidated byjoe biden. i would like to remind you the very famous british movie yes, minister and one season, or one episode, described as the salami tactics of russians . and i think that their philosophy don t provoke russia didn t work, don t provoke russia in 2008 in bucharest summit of nato.