arming missiles to taiwan for their fighter jet. there s concerns that they may be planning to arm russia now. in a moment, what former director of national tell john ratcliffe thinks the u.s. should be doing to address this and democratic senator joe manchin on if we are risking war with china over all of this. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto on a very busy news day. let s get to it with the latest from the pentagon. we ll find jennifer griffin. jennifer? neil, the state department has approved the sale of f-16 munitions worth $619 million for taiwan. since 2010, the u.s. has september $37 billion in foreign military sales. taipei has requested to buy 100 harm missiles along with various missile launches that can be used by the f-16 fleet. we don t believe an invasion is imminent. we re going to continue to work closely with our allies and partners to deter potential aggression. we re ininterested in the status quo, to preserve the peace that has been there a very lo
intelligence officials to agree the hunter biden s laptop was filled with russian disinformation and nothing for joe biden to worry about. that s what we re learning from mike morrell s testimony to congress. you know the current secretary of state antony blinken used to work for the biden campaign. morel under oath say it blinken played a role in the inception of that intel memo weeks before the presidential election. house judiciary chairman jim jordan. it was a total political operation. it wasn t russian disinformation. the laptop story looks to be true. the way the then vice president biden did it was made it seem like it was organic. it was choreographed. it was their names and title. it was accurate when it wasn t. that s the scariest thing of all. that letter became the basis for keeping this information from the american people. harris: let me show you an example of what chairman jordan is talking about there and how the current president fits in. we ll flashback
good morning, everyone. i m don lemon live in memphis, tennessee, where in just moments we re going to speak with the parents of tyre nichols. you heard there the police chief of memphis talking about what she saw on that videotape, what we re going to see a little bit later on this evening, 6:00 central time, 7:00 after 6:00 central, after 7:00 eastern time, when that video is released. the police chief saying what she saw doesn t really explain why tyre nichols was stopped in the first place and it speaks to just how horrific this videotape is, saying that it is reminiscent, if not worse than what we saw with rodney king. take a listen. can we talk about the nature of the stop? why what was the nature? why was he stopped? i m going to be honest with you about the stop itself. what was said is that there was a witnessing of what was considered reckless driving. we ve looked at cameras, we ve looked at cameras, and even if something occurred prior to this stop, we v
trillion could soon approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in, neil. president biden is calling for more taxes on the rich. he speak recently in virginia beach. i want to make it clear, i m going to raise some taxes. any of you who are billionaires out there, you re going to stop paying 3%. not a joke. biden met with kevin mccarthy just once since he became speaker and with a debt of over $31 trillion, many republicans are concerned about potential cuts in national against, a time when the biden administration is arming ukrainian forces with billions in american weapons and with the threat from china increasing. the 2022 and 2023 defense budgets are 3% when the kennedy administration was spending 9% of u.s. gdp on defense, building up the arsenal which the pentagon says is aging and is needed upgrades to the tunes of billions ever dollars. and jfk cut taxes and shortly after his death. that was then. lucas thank you very much. i raised this issue with jo
it s been a long time coming. a manhattan grand jury votes to indict donald trump, making him the first former president ever charged with a crime. there is no crime it s a bad act. i ll speak to cy vance who first opened this litigation this is legal voodoo. the gop, rallies to his defense before knowing the specifics of the actual criminal charges he s facing. this is nothing short of a political prosecution. will the twice-impeached former president continue to be seen as a positive force inside the gop? politically it s a it s going to be damaging, i think, to the republican party. and what will this indictment do to our already divided politics i ll talk to leading as the march madness tournament comes to a close i ll talk centrist joe manchin of west virginia and pay to play. as the march madness tournament comes to a close, i ll talk to ncaa president of former republican governor of massachusetts charlie baker on the challenge of how to pay c