japan s prime minister wants to double the defense spending including buying 400 american tomahawk cruise missiles to send a not so subtle message to china. no stranger to new york. he spent part of his childhood right there in new york and visited washington earlier this year. as you said back in january, when you were at the white house, i think the quote is we face one of the most complex environments in recent history, security environments. and i couldn t agree with you more. but i m proud that the united states and japan are facing it together. when our countries stand together we stand stronger and i believe the whole world is safer. president biden will be in japan through sunday. the trip was supposed to include three-point papua new guinea and australia the unresolved ceiling talks in washington has forced biden to cut his trip short. the president sounded optimistic about his talks before catching a flight to japan. i m confident that we ll get the agreemen
debt ceiling before we default. should be most consequential g7 in years. the bottom line is this should be g7 in which the president projects strength and resolve to our allies. if biden was on the top of his games, he would say we re going to protect our allies and i have a deal with mccarthy. that is what he should be saying, he s not. todd: lucas tomlinson live in washington with more. lucas. lucas: this trip hurts to move beyond that spy balloon. jake sullivan spoke en route to japan. common concerns and issues associated with the policies and practices, the people s republic of china will come up and i think you will see alignment and convergence around the principles of our approach to the people s republic of china. lucas: that is good dc wong speak. china will not be there, but will be focus of the meetings. trip was supposed to include a trip to new guinea. but the president s trip will be cut short. the president seemed optimistic before his flight to jap
border crisis caused by the biden administration. never a good bet to bet against america, never. [chanting u.s.a.] newark can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. pete hegseth is live in carthage in north carolina where he s going to be talking to voters. who here watched the speech last night? who loved the speech last night? ainsley: last night was joe biden s second state of the union address. we all watched it. we watched sarah huckabee sanders rebuttal and listened to the pundits afterwards. we will get you up to date, up to speed if you happened to go to sleep last night. brian: then we watched some late night movies and went to the clubs and came right to work. how late were we up last night? 11:00? steve: listen, we made one correct prediction yesterday and that was that joe biden would be wearing a blue tie. ainsley: this is true. steve: and he did. from state of the union to safety the onion. let s go to having br
democrats. kate mitchell donated $50,000 to hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign and staglin owns an estate near nancy pelosi s home and made several donations to democrats totaling $150,000. mary miller did not donate but served for obama at the treasury department. only member of the silicon valley bank with prior investment banking experience is tom king who previously served as ceo of barclays. donations to social causes, sbv donated to groups tied to black lives matter. it is not the only bank that went under to make similar donations, signature bank donated to the democratic party. only $750,000 was given to the gop. they were shut down in the aftermath of svb s collapse and hosted seminar on pronouns less than six months before it went under, watch. we talk about folks that are nonbinary, do not identify male or female, they use they/them as pronoun ze and hir are other pronouns. brooke: top executives starred in a broadway style sketch in 2014. watch this.
if completely embarrassing to the democratic party and the biden administration. comer says he has discovered one of another one of biden s family members may be involved in influence peddling. no denying it with the bank records. we will keep following the money. there it is. for the win. it is no good. no good. and pittsburgh advances in the ncaa tournament. steve: we start with a fox news alert on this wednesday morning. hoosegow and washington, d.c. engage in a tense war of words after a russian fighter jet downed a u.s. reaper drone at 35,000 feet above the black sea. brian: the pentagon calling out the kremlin s unsafe action as russia s ambassador demands the u.s. put an end to hostile flights in international waters, mind you. ainsley: lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the latest. good morning. the reaper drone went down southwest of crimea near ukraine after a russian fighter jet complied with it. the kremlin says the will on its own. pot