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nashville. this is a live look where soon president biden is going to try to convince the american people that his meeting today with communist dictator xi jinping is the beginning of something really beautiful. now, think about it. president xi rules over, what, 1.3 billion chinese, through a relentless campaign of fear and oppression. but, we're supposed to believe that he is actually someone we can trust as america gradually gives up her leverage. be someone that we can do business with. after all, china set the raw chemicals to mexico that killed hundreds of thousands of americans when it was turned into fentanyl. but now, after spending some glorious moments with joe biden, he says that he is going to pull all that back. what a guy. well, we know big business is going to go for all of this nonsense. but will america? joining me now is trace

gallagher chief breaking news correspondent and host of fox news at night. trace, what are we learning tonight? >> yeah, we will get to those items in a minute there, laura. we want to kind of point out this meeting appeared to last about four hours between president biden and president xi. we know that four hour point they took a walk in the garden outside of the venue which was in woodside, california. we are here in san francisco that they cleaned up so amazingly. but this was in woodside about 32 miles away down in the peninsula, very close to stanford university. along that walk, president biden was asked how it was going, and he just said well. we can tell you as you kind of noted there, laura, off the top, they came to a couple of pretty firm agreements. one is the fentanyl. the chemicals that china has been sending primarily to mexico and they use those chemicals to make fentanyl and ship it over to the united states. so china says they will stop sending the chemicals but does it stop the problem? the answer is probably not because the border is still wide open. so, the cartels are going to buy

the chemicals from somebody else and continue to ship those fentanyl drugs over an open border and kill tens of thousands of americans. the other deal we expect to be made on this is to open up military lines of communication. military ties here. remember, those lines of communication were taken down a couple of years ago after nancy pelosi visited taiwan. so the deal here is that it's a hotline. that they can communicate with each other directly in case there is any kind of friction in the taiwan straits or the south china sea. they can maybe get in touch with other -- with each other directly and they can try and work this out. the problem with that is, there is no agreement that we have heard of that the chinese military is going to stop taunting the u.s. military over the past several months. we know that chinese planes have come very close in the taiwan strait to american fighter planes. and ships as well down there, very close to other chinese

ships. will that end? that is something we don't know at this point. the big point of contention in all of this for president xi has been that he wants assurances from president biden to make sure that he does not support taiwan independence. you know, the president has said president biden has said a number of times that independence is up to taiwan. and that the united states would send military troops to taiwan to protect them. the white house has backed that off and walked it back in every occasion. and the question is did he get that assurance from xi and on the flip side, laura, the president would like president xi to talk to iran about this war in israel, trying to tell him if he can use influence to get those iranian proxies, hezbollah, hamas, and others pulled back and to stop going after american troops. we will find out, laura, who came out on top in the next couple of weeks, in the next

couple of months. we will see china's actions. do they have any more rogue balloons? do they taunt our military troops in the taiwan straits? and does iran back off in this war in the middle east? a lot of questions we expect a lot of answers or at least some answers when the president takes to the podium a few minutes from now. >> laura: trace, was there any conversation that you know about or that's been reported yet about ukraine? because, of course, we know that xi is supporting putin and we're fighting, you know, proxy fighting in the war in ukraine and hundreds of billions of dollars eventually will be going there from the united states. so what about that? >> yeah, we know it came up. we know that ukraine came up as did the war in israel. and when it documents ukraine, yeah, president biden's wish is that, you know, there could be some consensus there. i mean, the united states is sending a boat load, billions

more than $100 billion in weapons to ukraine and, of course, you have china supporting russia and that is a big point of contention in all of this. the question is, is there any kind of momentum on that? is there any kind of agreement? we have heard of none so far. whether they went and delved deep into that we are unclear. they spent most of the time talking about the war in israel versus the war in ukraine. laura. >> laura: trace, as always, great to see you. >> hammers and sickos. that he was the focus of tonight's angle i know, it was all hammer and sickos in san francisco since the arrival of china's dictator, xi jinping. americans desperate to honor and impress him decided to make him feel right at home now that is a

flag that represents subjugation, oppression, and persecution, not just to the chinese who fled but for those who have no way out of china and for a second in watching this welcome that xi received on our soil, i thought that was watching my old favorite flick from the mid 80's, red dawn. ♪ >> laura: seriously, watching the biden cabinet, the regime media, these american plutocrats, off and on all over xi, i'm sorry, it's just disgusting. did they forget that china did what it did during covid? not only did they cover up the origins of the virus that killed millions, but, also, with brutal efficiency they locked down

hundreds of millions of people in their own homes and sprawling apartment complexes. only thing chinese citizen could say do was to scream on heir balconies at night. [shouts] >> laura: think of the two million uyghurs languishing in what they call reeducation camps, internment camps. per xi's directives they sit there tortured guy bawrdz, including some of them who have actually escaped, the guards i'm talking about, to tell the world about the rampant human rights abuses that occur. >> do the police officers use electric batons to shock prisoners? >> yes. everyone uses different methods. >> for years, stories of arbitrary arrests, unspeakable cruelty and mass internment examps have been trickling out of china's region. >> if you want people to

confess, use the electric baton. we would tie two electrical wires on the tips and set the wires on their genitals while the person tied up. results is better. >> laura: apparently joe biden joe biden, the press and ceo paid up to $40,000 to be at a banquet dictator. they are not fazed by any of this or what has been done to the christians in china whose churches have been bulldozed on xi's orders. is the google ceo also not concerned about what's happened to hong kong ceos who have been disappeared by china? or the ones who have been thrown into solitary confinement for years like jimmy lye? all these people for money have a convenient case of amnesia because they are so desperate

expand, export and sell more stuff there and the biden ventriloquist, well, they want a beautiful green future with china. that's funny. of course, this requires improving the u.s.-china relationship. but the truth is biden is already compromised. given how much money his son hunter made there for no discernible talent other than being the then vice president's son. now, y'all remember during the 2020 election, president biden denied all of the money that was made. my son has not made money in terms of this thing about -- what are you talking about? china. >> laura: it took the press years to finally admit that joe was not telling the truth about that. and why? because hunter himself testified that he had, in fact, made a substantial sum of money from chinese interest. plus, of course, this had all been confirmed by documents emails and so forth found on hunter's laptop which the press

claimed was russian disinformation, again, conveniently during the campaign. so, when someone repeatedly reveals himself through his bad actions, don't make excuses for him. believe what he does. do not believe what he says. but, despite all that we know about what china has done in supporting russia, as i was talking to -- with trace or stealing our intellectual property, dumping cheap products here, committing genocide, biden thinks xi is a straight arrow. >> host you in the united states has been a great honor and pleasure. there is no substitute face-to-face discussions. i have always found our discussions straightforward and frank and i have always appreciated them. >> laura: i think he meant to say the business that they sent his son, well, that was always appreciated. all right. let's be candid here. this is a really sad day for those of you was who remember

when america stood for freedom. when american leaders did not grovel before dictators. when the world saw us, you know, that america was rising. not one country stumbling toward a future with a dictator like xi. someone becoming almost xi's puppet. but this is what our leaders want. and unless we get new leaders in 2024. there is no reason tonight to believe things are not going to get even worse. and that's the angle. joining us now and i'm delighted is congressman mike gallagher, chairman of the house china select committee. i want to talk about the ceos in a moment, congressman. but, first, your reaction to hearing what's coming out of this meeting is xi jinping, given everything we know about him, a man that we can do business with and trust? >> no. absolutely not. and regardless of what comes out

of this meeting, think of the price we have already paid just so biden could sit down with xi for this photo op. for two years now, the administration has completely taken its foot off the gas. they have not sanctioned any chinese officials. they attempted to down play, if not cover up the spy balloon incident. there has been no meaningful investigation into the origins of covid. also, that we could spend -- send cabinet secretaries to china, to beg the ccp, to have this meeting that the price we have already paid. now i worry coming out of this meeting some commitment to working together on fentanyl but like every other commitment that the ccp has made in more history, the chinese communist party will violate that commitment time and again fall victim to this trap where we pay cash up front and the ccp's

check is always in the mail. that is the risk right now. >> laura: do you agree bob lighthizer probably knows more about trade than any other american what he said on the angle the other night is basically what they are really playing for here is not about fentanyl or any of this. what xi wants are those tariffs lifted. trump's tariffs lift in a second biden term. what would you wager on the proposition that that was discussed and whether a wink and a nod that they understood that those tariffs are coming off if biden wins? >> well, i'm sure it was discussed. the 301 tariffs that ambassador lighthizer put in place, it's absolutely essential that we don't get rid of those for some illusory promise of cooperation in the future. and more to the point, i think, what the biden administration wants over the next year is that there's nothing that could imperil their efforts to get reelected. that's why they put so much focus on turning the temperature

down in the relationship but because they misunderstand the nature of this regime. the marxist len nist regime, they don't understand the more you appease, the more you accommodate, the more aggressive xi jinping becomes whether it's the economic coercion they are elm banking on globally. whether it's the hacking of cabinet official emails at the very same moment those same cabinet officials are going to china. how much more evidence do we need to suggest that getting into the endless negotiation trap is not a good strategy. >> laura: congressman, i said this in the angle but, they lied about this virus. they are still lying. millions of people died and they are probably working on other vvaccines at other bioweapons labs right now. all the other human rights

abuses, trade abuse, everything they have done but the covid issue? i mean we are kind of like oh, let's move on. let's move on? >> that's critical. because the people that make the case for cooperation with the ccp, usually cite public health and pandemic prevention as an area with our interest are aligned. they also, of course, cite climate change which is why john kerry is sitting in the room with president biden and xi jinping, they're saying when it comes to ai, artificial intelligence we have shared interest with the chinese communist party in regulating that technology going forward. i can guarantee you that xi jinping has no other interest when it comes to a.i. than to dominate the technology in order to use it for evil and to further destroy american global leadership. that's who we are dealing with on the other side of the table. >> laura: congressman, you are a true leader on this issue. thank you very much. all right, we're still waiting to see how biden tries to pin today's discussions. senator tom cotton, victor davis

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to remodel the other and conflict and confrontation has unbearable consequence force both sides. >> tonight, joe biden is going to walk up to that podium, and is he going to try to explain to america what he he thinks happened during his meeting with president xi. we already know where xi stands. if joe tries to play it off this is successful, it was a cooperative meeting, well then, you know who ended up coming out on top. joining us now eldridge colby, former deputy assistant secretary of defense under president trump. michael pillsbury, senior fellow for china strategy at heritage and ned ryan, founder and ceo of american majority xi warned of unbearable consequences if we decouple. what is he really saying? >> well, it's a warning to the

hawks not to go too far. looks to me like both sides are cooperating. the chinese team and biden team to work on the re-election of joe biden. i mean, they are framing this whole thing as biden's move toward peace and dampening down tension. it's a gamble, perhaps the chinese watching the polls and see that there is a very good chance mr. trump returning. they don't want that. so the only other option is to endorse biden. that's how i read the atmospherics of what we have been seeing the last few hours. >> laura: eldridge, the romantic walk in the garden we are looking at on screen now, kind reminds me of the old love connection show where you ask how did your date end? apparently ended quite well for them. but, i want to play a moment from this -- from xi today. watch. >> planet earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed. one country's success is an

opportunity for the other. i firmly believe in a promising future of the bilateral relationship. >> laura: what blather. planet earth is big enough for the both of us? it sounds a lot like just kind of a power sharing agreement, elbridge. because we know china shares so well with other countries, correct? >> easter island and samoa and they get the world's most important region. i want to build on the two mikes, mike pillsbury and mike gallagher both said. it's clear in a sense at best the biden administration is getting snookered and there is a 00 of delusion we can compete while cooperating. i want to actually advance a somewhat darker possibility which is based on three senior administration themselves saying on politico that they want to quote, unquote steady the relationship with china. because if ukraine, the war in the middle east and the president's re-election campaign. now, if you're china, and the country that you regard as an existential threat, xi jinping

according to the "wall street journal" regards this existential threat begging what does that tell you? ended the angle on a pregnant note potential for worse that is a big deal. look at president biden, that kind of, you know, omega version of walk in the woods. democrat terring around. president biden met with president putin in june of 2021, 8 months later he invaded. crew chevy met with kennedy 1961 in vienna. cuban missile crisis. if he is coming and sizing us up. i don't know any information. we do know they are still -- they haven't suspended the military buildup and everything. we are in a very dangerous time. i want an area where i disagree with congressman gallagher is i don't think the biden administration people are naive or delusional. as we have discussed, laura, they can be incredibly ruthless including toward production. what i fear is that they actually do think conflict is quite possible and they are trying to placate.

i hate to use the word appeasement because it is so overused and it's become a canard but that is kind of what it smells like. >> laura: totally appeasement. i don't think you have to hesitate about using that word at all. and, ned, you know, i mentioned issue of covid and china's releasing vice accidentally or for on purpose. it released the virus, lied about it. we weren't able to gather much information from them. they destroyed all the records. disappeared people who knew the real truth. and then we're all supposed to just say oh, thanks for your promise about fentanyl. all is forgiven. so the issue of covid did come up. and this is how xi addressed it today. >> the world has emerged from the covid pandemic. but it is still under tremendous impact. the global economy is recovering, but it's momentum remains sluggish. industrial and supply chains are still under the 24re9 of interruption and protectionism

is rising. all these are grave problems. >> laura: he kind of agrees with a lot of globalists here. protectionism is a bigger threat than, you know, communism itself. your reaction to that, ned? >> no, i mean, the sad part is a lot of our ruling class likes the chinese model of governance. i don't think they have a problem with it. they like and appreciate the authoritarianism of china and wouldn't mind if it came on to our shores. i'm just struck by the incredible weakness that's being displayed right now that biden is having to ask xi to stop the flow of fentanyl coming into our country and begging him to stop it. you know, we could actually secure our border. we could actually be in control of that conversation instead of having to beg them to do that. he is begging them to actually have a conversation with iran about hezbollah, about hamas. again, incredible weakness as we are giving billions of dollars to the iranians. then having to ask the chinese to maybe have a conversation and call off their attack dogs. but, you know the things that aren't going to be discussed,

again, chinese spy balloons. attacking taiwan, china building out its nuclear arsenal. again as you mentioned the origins of covid and basically biological warfare on the rest of the world. and what are the consequences for that? of course, biden is never going to bring that up. biden is never going to actually clearly state the existential threat that china is to our future and our allies. he can't do it and maybe he won't do it because a lot of us think he is compromised by the money that's flowed from the ccp to the biden family and we can make the argument that biden is actually meeting with the pay master of the biden family when he meets with xi jinping. >> laura: we know what they would say if the shoe were on the other foot. and the trump family had received payments, mike, when trump was in office from foreign governments or shady businesses to do nothing, no discernible talent. but just to get huge checks through multiple kind of vague accounts and end up in their brother's pocket or the son's

pocket. they wouldn't have trouble drawing this connection back to, you know, a republican president. but this is somehow ignored when we look at this matrix of problems that we have right now michael, to your point you wrote the 100 are year marathon. this is the long game. they are looking 10, 20, 30, 40 years down the road. you look at what asia is thinking about us after this meeting. look at what taiwan or australia, new zealand, african nations, european nations? what do they think now about the united states? are we stronger or weaker after speaking as we did with xi? >> well, laura, we look unreliable. the rhetoric of the last two and a half years by biden, he tried to match trump's rhetoric in the first year, china will never surface us. they commit genocide. all that seems to be gone now. so, if you are an ally or a partner nation of america, and you watch this show, including

biden's comments in a few minutes, you're going to be very confused. it's as though the americans didn't really mean it. that concrete majors have not passed the congress. you may have seen heritage foundation president's article about three weeks ago that the house republicans are simply not passing all the key legislation that's been proposed about china. for example, whether companies have to report investment in to china or not. that failed in house financial services. it's quite a long list. the chinese know. this they watch us carefully. they know we are turning into a nation of talkers who are all bark and no bite whether it comes to pressure on china. >> laura: they know money talks. >> trump got negotiations going. >> laura: well, he had leverage. trump understood how the chinese only understand power. raw power and frankly a

patriotic nationalistic spirit, right? that's what they respect. they don't respect people, you know, off and fawn at them andt the flags. they don't respect that they dominate the situation. elbridge, to that point i would disagree slightly with mike on this. i think you are putting it too mildly. i think we look incredibly weak. and, mike, how often i have disagreed with you over the years? never. i think we look weak. i don't think we look confused. think we look weak. in the future america does not look like we are running the show. america looks like we are taking orders from xi. that's how we look. elbridge? >> i would say it's actually the worst possible outcome, which is that we look weak and sort of plaintiff like we are asking them a favor. we have actually succeeded under this administration in convincing them according to the journal, again that, xi jinping thinks we want to strangle them. that's the situation that existed. it's at least analogous the

situation before pearl harbor which is we feel -- i was on a thing with a very senior bunch of chinese recently and i asked them do you think we are trying to contain and suppress you? blah blah blah? and they said absolutely. like to a person they said, and yet, we are also projecting weakness. and china is building up the military to do so. it's made it clear what is going on in taiwan. that is actually the worst possible situation. >> laura: ned, i think it's important given the brilliant arguments you are making political aspect of this for 2024, how the media are framing this media. watch this. >> really, it's about to try to just calm things down. so, frankly, the u.s. can focus on other things. because of the situation in ukraine, because of the middle east. and, of course, as the president is about to head into re-election year. that's the goals for today. modest, but important. >> laura: okay. ned, should biden's re-election really be a goal of a summit

mitt with our leading adversary that has more nuclear weapons than any other nation other than us? >> that's what is happening. >> well, that's exactly what is happening in this situation with china. it's the same situation that's happening in his approach to israel. this is all about retaining political power in november of 2024. and, again, i mean, as somebody stated previously, china would much prefer to have biden in the white house than trump. >> laura: ,. >> trump only was extremely aggressive on tariffs and trade policies with china. he was extremely realistic about the threat that they posed to america's place on the international stage. and biden, the problem with weakness and appeasement in the face of this aggressive authoritarianism. >> laura: they want us to be weak. yeah. >> only to encourage more. >> laura: yeah. all right. panel, you all are awesome. and, mike, i didn't mean to insinuate at all, michael, that you were going soft on china.

you know i'm the biggest hawk when i think you're going soft on china. okay. that's hilarious. all right. i'm making myself laugh at the very least. all right, great conversation, guys. thank you. all right, senator tom cotton and victor davis hanson are here. i cannot wait to hear their analysis, so stay there.

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>> up to the podium. getting a glimpse into how he thinks meeting went today. the president just tweeting some of the most constructive and productive discussions we have had. joining me now senator tom cotton of the senate intel and armed services committee. senator, does that inspire confidence? are you reassured but what may have occurred today? >> no, laura. not at all. i don't think we need to wait

for joe biden to know that this summit was bad for america. the only question is whether it was catastrophic for america. we have seen for months abject appeasement of the chinese communist by president biden. for instance, turning the other cheek on china's spy balloon, or their hacking into our government computer systems, or their continued cheating on trade deals. at the outset of this summit meeting, joe biden said it was an honor and a pleasure to host a communist dictator who is committing genocide against his own people. that sets a very bad tone. it's the kind of thing ronald reagan would have never done, even when he sat down with russian leaders. he would have negotiate from a position of strength. i think the only question we need to know now is what did joe biden agree to give away behind closed doors today to decide whether this was merely bad or catastrophic for america. >> laura: well, reagan, for whom i worked, was about peace

through strength. and now it's appeasement through weakness. and su susp supplication. everything we knew going in that was going to be their approach. on top of this, senator, we have china building a listening post,/military base in cuba. those plans are underway. likely to be open some time in the next year, year and a half. no reporting on whether that topic came up. >> no, and i bet it probably did not, laura, i bet they didn't raise the origins of the covid pandemic. china controlled labs. probably didn't raise china sending a spy balloon to float across america as well. mentioned in cuba. they probably didn't mention china's growing attempts to try to control access to the panama canal as well. everything that biden has done

leading up to this summit has been about setting the mood music, if you will, for smooth relations with the communist adversary for joe biden's re-election. another thing we saw today at the outset of this summit that is very troubling is just a couple seats down from joe biden is john kerry, not the secretary of defense, but john kerry, the special envoy for climate change. it goes to show you what joe biden's priorities are when dealing with the chinese. it's not american jobs. it's not american safety, it's getting climate change deal with china, which, of course, they would cheat on. >> laura: yeah. a former pentagon official, senator, is convinced that xi is here to beg biden to ease up period, watch. >> why is xi agreeing to this meeting now? i think part of the reason is i think they fear that maybe the biden administration strategy is working. the de-risking economically i think is hurting the chinese economy. part of the reason china is here to get out from under the pressure that the biden administration has helped to build.

>> laura: well, senator, that is true. i mean, they haven't pulled back on trump's tariffs yet. i think they do that in a second term. but why lay -- you know, pull up on the gas when china is weak, throw them a lifeline after what they have done? >> yeah, laura. we should be doubling down. the president hasn't rescinded donald trump's tariffs in part because he is afraid of the political consequences. but, of course, tariffs and sanctions can grow stale over time as china finds new ways to cheat on them by, for instance, trans shipping goods made in china through third party countries into the united states. the administration has not undertaken a vigorous effort to update and enforce the trump tariffs and sanctions. and, again, china knew it was on the front foot going into this summit because biden has projected weakness and appease china in every way this year. and that's why i say we know this summit was bad for america. now the only question was it catastrophic? and summits can be catastrophic.

in 1961, after jfk went to vienna and was intimidated by khrushchev the enter line wall and a year later the cuban missile crisis. president biden had a terrible summit with putin in 2021. the invasion of ukraine a few months later. the question is not whether this was a good summit. whether it was merely a bad summit or something much worse. >> laura: yeah, i think they don't have go war with taiwan. i think they will just take taiwan. i think they don't think they -- they don't think they have to, you know, really go much further because i think they think they will get whatever they want now. i just think it's handed to them on a silver platter. senator, we really appreciate it. thank you. joining me now victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. victor, we just learned from a senior administration official that president biden himself did most of the talking. president xi also did a lot of the listening. if that shouldn't terrify you, i

don't know what will. >> i believe that. i think he came over here after looking at the surveying the world and your guest have pointed out the covid stone walling. the balloon, buying up farmland. it's just a litany. we are well beyond the 1990s copyright infringement issues or patents. we are into existential crisis. i think he came over here and he thought this country is very strong. it's still stronger than we are, but it's acting weak and giving me all these things i want to take the measure of this leader. and he is cognitive decline. he reads about ethically challenged. he looks at his polls. he looks at a failed agenda and come away with the idea that wow, if i had the united states power, i sure would be pushing me around. and they have more power than i do. and, yet, they are afraid of me. that's when wars start. because when weaker powers think they are ascendant and the stronger power is afraid of them, then they make bad decisions .

the fact of the matter is if we could just go back to energy independence, get rid of this crazy dei woke virus and go back to a meritocracy and build up our defenses, get our physical house in order, we would be so much stronger than china. and they know it. and so, when we act weak, i feel everybody is talking about these summits. the one that comes in my mind is when neville chamber went over to munich and came back convinced that he had done all the talking and hitler had listened and, you know, hitler would not do anything. and actually britain at that time -- the british empire was stronger than germany. germany didn't get that message. that's what i'm worried about. is he going to come away with the idea that the country is weak rather than the leadership is. and we have got to radically change our habits and get back to a tough military, physical

sobriety, energy independence, and demonstrate to him that it's a very dangerous thing to challenge the united states and its allies. >> laura: well, here is how your old friend, victor, richard last, the former president of the globalist council on foreign relations described the china challenge. watch this this is a thrap hasn't found a definition for itself. it's highly competitive. can you find some limited areas of cooperation amidst the competition? maybe. we used to worry that china is 10 feet tall. we now understand it's not. >> laura: well, victor, you know, not saying there is no area at all where we could cooperate with china, so i think he has a point there. but, is that a sophisticated enough understanding of china, given the history of what just happened in the past three or four years? >> all these problems that all of your guests tonight have outlined, they all have one thing in common, they were all

instigated, precipitated by china. we don't send balloons over there we were candid about covid. we didn't start it. we are not buying farmland in china. we don't have students over there spying like they do. we are not doing it. it's all xi. it's him. and why is he doing that? it's not because he wants to be a strategic partner. he wants to be a hedge amonday. and he feels that, again, he is baffled that we are so strong and yet so week in turning over all these prerogatives and openings to him likes us better respects and fears. he doesn't like us now because he fears we have a lot of intrinsic strength but weak morally, ethical, politically, cultural, socially. that's dangerous. dangerous. >> laura: yeah, i don't think he respects what america has become at all. i think he did respect it more when trump was president. no, we are the greatest

president on the face of the earth. you are not going to pull a fast one on us. you we are not doing this anymore. trump wanted to do a deal but much more realistic. victor, i want to get your take on what is happening with this political interference play will medaling in our election. and they put out this big report that election interference is going to happen in 2024 as it did obviously in 2020. >> well, i mean that's classical projection only had interference by falsely accusing people of doing it. there was no such thing as russian collusion. hillary clinton actually had foreign nationals that may have been spreading russian disinformation and we know that from the whole 2016 and '20 experience. so i think they are very worried and every time they talk about

they're worried about validating our election integrity or foreign meddling that tells me they don't think they have control of the app. rat tuesday of balloting and election nearing enough to overcome the weakness and the unpopularity of joe biden. so they're prepping the battlefield. >> laura: that's a good point. the chinese have tiktok. they think that's going to help. victor, as always, it is so great to see you. thank you so much. i think we may be going to jackie mjacquiheinrich. we are going in a moment. live tv. inside the room where biden is set to speak. so that's going to happen and, first, we're going to be joining in nashville, fox news contributor raimondo raymond arroyo. biden is supposed to come out 7:15. we had to change a few things around. we are very nimble on the "the ingraham angle." >> we keep moving. >> laura: what can you tell us about what has been happening here.

>> look, as i watch all of this, i was listening to this incredible show and your guest, xi has certainly taking this administration down the literal and figurative garden path, laura. we saw that sad look. there it is. the biden administration claims when you talk to them that this is all about climate change and fighting fentanyl. but that's absurd. the real china challenge is intellectual property theft. trade imbalances, the surveillance of the united states and our allies there was no talk today laura. keep talking about other things and holding up agreements. we are going to hold back fentanyl. our militaries are going to talk. that misses the point and a major challenges you laid out. >> laura: what we heard is that they have agreed to curb, curb the shipment of the chemicals that go into fentanyl. now what does curb mean? curb your enthusiasm, i would say about that. because we have no idea what that means. it could be, you know, reducing the chemicals by 4%. who is going to be checking?

the same people who checked that wuhan lab for, you know, leaks? who is going to be checking whether they are curbing the fentanyl chemicals? this is ridiculous. >> yeah, they are surveilling all of us at any moment. this is absurd. >> laura: raymond, i know there is other news happening on our shores that the bilat also brings to surface. >> look. i don't have to tell you. you mentioned it in the angle. the audacious, malicious, suppress sore of religious freedoms that xi represents and is. he smashed churches, rounded up clergy, literally put muslims in gulags. the biden administration has apparently been paying attention. it has changed the green card rules for clergy. america magazine is reporting a sudden, procedural change in how the federal government processes green cards for foreign born religious workers. together with his historic highs in numbers of illegal border crossers, that means thousands

of clergy, laura, are losing the ability to remain in this country. this is why this is happening, okay? they left the borders open. and you now have tens of thousands of central american minors who want refugee status. guess where the biden administration placed them? ahead of working clergy in the united states. that means pastors, priests, nuns are going to be thrown out of the country. their green cards expired. they were doing this the right way. they were getting in line and applying. >> laura: will this is anti-christian. to me, this is just a classic antireligious play. anti-christian, antireligious, that's why they love closing the churches during covid. i have covid on the brain tonight. i don't know why i keep going back to covid. >> because you see xi. >> laura: yeah. all right, today offered -- it. >> if you care just a second, laura, if you cared for the people coming into this country, you would give them access to pastors and priests who spoke

their language. that's what is going to be deprived them if this law, if this new policy of bidens stays in place. it needs to change. clergy should get priority. >> laura: well, they want fewer religious services in the united states. they hate the religious people in this country. today offered more evidence that the biden brand is distressed, you say? >> yeah. yeah. it's not the only brand in trouble. over the weekend disney's new movie the marvels had the least massiveless opening of any marvel film whatsoever. it only made $47 million at the box office. it cost them 200 million to make. that's the worst opening for a marvel film in history, laura. this follows the elementals, indiana jones, the haunted mansion, bomb after bomb. less to do with some of these films themselves than the member perception that disney is adding ideological story lines. they tried to introduce a nonbinary character into

elementals and that breaks faith with the audience. that's what you are seeing here. a great emblem for china-american business relationship. they acceded their intellectual property and morally collapsed and we are seeing the sad, the depth of a great american brand. >> laura: all right, raymond. great to see you, as always. see you tomorrow night in nashville. fox news white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has just gotten set up in the room where biden is about to speak at the top of the hour. she joins us now with what to expect. jacqui, what can you tell us? >> the agreement with china to curb the flow of fentanyl into the u.s. we know that china has agreed to crack down on companies that send that drug to latin america, that it makes its way to the u.s., via the southern border. we didn't get a whole lot of detail on the timeline of just how long the administration will be waiting to see if they follow

through before they lift the sanctions that they have been talking about. so expect the president to probably discuss a little bit of that. also, we know that they have an agreement now to restore military-to-military communications. that was a huge priority for the u.s. it's going to be happening now at the cabinet level and also at the senior leader level, including the chairman of the joint chiefs and commander of the pacific forces and also operational engagement between shift drivers and others. those agreements together. what looks like not fully bakeside this agreement limit the use of artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons. critics of the administration said that the president would be giving away, ceding effective lay strategic advantage that the u.s. has on artificial intelligence, if this were to happen. and the readout that we just got from a senior official says that's basically in its northwesterly steps right now.

detail if any what china agreed to do to push iran to stop foreign policy widening the war in the middle east. that was something that the president planned to raise. we know he did raise it, but the readout that we just got didn't give a whole lot of detail on what, if anything, china agreed to do. a couple other things that remain unanswered that we hope to get some answers on. we don't know what, if anything, the president said about taiwan, which is china's biggest priority right now. they were seeking assurances in the form of, perhaps, stopping military support for taiwan or something along those lines, rolling back sanctions and tariffs, some kind of show of support that we would not violate the one china policy that the u.s. has repeatedly said that it still stands behind. we did not think that any such thing was coming from the biden administration. but that's what china wanted to see. so we will be looking for detail on how that piece of the conversation wept. and, also, the issue of the spy balloon. we don't know if the president

planned to raise it, specifically. we know that the administration broadly thinks that the incident sort of fits in with the conversation about the need to raise military to military communications. they saw that spy balloon incident as a very good example of why those communications need to be restored. but, because this meeting was about reestablishing this very frosty relationship, getting things back on track, it did not seem like they were -- that the president was keen on bringing that up, specifically. so, we hope to get at least a couple questions to the president. we'll certainly effort one ourselves. and we will see what he has to say about how this historic >> jackie, what do we know about what the ceo who attended or attending, did the dinner already take place? is it last night or tonight? the big dinner with president xi. they control huge amounts of money in the united states. any movement on any of the issues that they obviously care

about? >> well, we know the administration broadly sees that businesses can do what they want. we heard today that there are certain industries that we don't support engagement with china on because of national security reasons. obviously president xi is in the u.s. to appeal directly to those business leaders. china policy economy has been on the brink of a wild. they have really high unemployment among youth. they have a big real estate problem. capitol and business leaving the country. a depreciating currency. the biden administration really did not want to take a tougher line in their conversation with china because they feel like the u.s. economy are big partnerships in the end of pacific and investments and critical technologies have put china on its heels. therefore we could basically play nice, get china to the table and it would better protect u.s. interests if we had china cooperating with us. so we know that xi will be

broadcasting to the world that china is open for business. the one thing i think is interesting about this business element is the president was planning, reportedly, to announce some deliverables on the agreement, a trade agreement the endo pacific economic framework. the senate democrats told them to back off because they were leery about an enforceable trade standards with that. that gives xi an opening and we will see what if anything the president says about that, laura. tonight jackie, we cannot wait to watch. great to see you tonight. that is it for us tonight. remember we are in nashville. tomorrow is the big day. you can be part of our lives show at the grand ole opry house in nashville. scan the qr code on your screen right now and get tickets and be part of our live audience. i want to see you there. up next, jessie jesse and biden.