That they are not making any pronouncements about whether they should or shouldn t go. i think the challenge at this point is, i ve been with the implication that she is going to go, if he doesn t go, the question is does that then just assume that they would not send it to china either. in trying to force the united states to back down? real quick, i talked to about this this weekend. he said it was an unforced error on the part of the speaker s office. do you agree? there are definite people who would say that. she had already said in april that she was going to go. i think, though, because of covid. it did not cause the speaker fought with china. so you have to wonder why china is more reactive to it now, months later. all right, peter baker, thank you so much. 100 days to the midterms, and so much at. stay the balance of power in the senate at the house, and less than 48 hours to go until voting begins, when a critical abortion vote in kansas. but first, a quick look at why
Going to talk to xi tomorrow. try to get something out of that call. gillian, thank you. you bet. bret: let s bring in fox news senior political analyst brit hume. good evening, brit. good evening, bret. bret: your thoughts on this. it seems like it didn t have to be this sticky for this trip. brit: looks like we stumbled into a ripe mess here. first of all, there was some publicity, i guess, surrounding the trip. and the chinese decided to make an issue of it, which they have now done. now putting the u.s. in a position where if she goes we re worried that there will be an escalation of some kind as you heard some of those people say and if she doesn t go, it looks like we backed down the face of threat to china. person political figures go to these places like taiwan all the time. there is nothing unusual about it. there is nothing shouldn t be anything provocative about it and, yet, here we are. i can t believe that this is going to end up in escalation of tensions in
Integrity. clear as don t dare come, but why should the u.s. let china dictate terms? that s right. and i think, you know, we are used to this kind of rhetoric from the chinese government. they often do saber rattle. listen, they have the 20th party congress coming up this year, xi jinping is looking to be reinstated for another term, so it s hard to game things out. are they serious, would they actually intercept the plane of the speaker of the house. i think a lot of people have doubts. however, i think that we have gone about this the wrong way because we have talked about this publicly, because the trip has been linked, because president biden put it out there, that the military did not want the speaker to go. now we are in a precarious position. this administration has put themselves in that, and precarious position in that she doesn t go, it looks like we are backing down to them. i have to say, she seems to be the person in the administration that at least is the most willing
To have stayed, but clearly i can t. this was a referendum as much on me and my premiership as it was on brexit. so he did the right thing. margaret thatcher also, she didn t stay around when it was clear she had to leave, and that happened in the middle of a war, actually in the middle of the gulf war, margaret thatcher was kicked out. but policy continued because there is a massive civil service here, it is not like in the united states. there is a huge civil service and bureaucracy that keeps this place going. and, you know, if he doesn t go, this could weaken britain s already weakened position on the international stage because brexit did weaken britain s throw weight on the international stage. it is a smallish country, but it is always punched above its weight on international stage. but brexit even threatened that. and as i said, you know, boris johnson tried to say i have a mandate, i was elected, that many years and days ago, by a majority, that s true, but it is not like a p
millions at stake. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. thanks so much for starting your day with us. we start in london, where the olympic games are under way right now. a 23-year-old chinese woman nicknamed shooting beauty competing in the 10-meter air rifle competition has won the first gold medal in london. meantime, u.s. swimmer michael phelps will compete against ryan lochte in the 400 individual medley tonight, but phelps narrowly qualified after a slow finish this morning. but it was queen elizabeth who almost certainly stole the show during last night s opening ceremony. take a look. good evening. good evening. the creative mind behind the ceremony, danny boyle, used his movie magic to show the queen teaming up with james bond actor daniel craig. in the scene, stunt doubles, not actually the queen, jumped from a helicopter portraying the two parachuting into the olympic stadium. mitt romney got to see an