host: we would like to thank weifeng zhong who is a senior research fellow at the marquis de sade toer at george mason -- merck kata center -- mercatus center at george mason university. thank you for being here this morning. guest: thank you for having me. host: coming up jacob stokes a fellow at the center for a new american security will discuss chinese national security threats to the united states. later, minky worden will join us to discuss the issue of chinese human rights abuses. ♪ >> book tv every sunday on c-span2 feet years leading authors discussing their latest books. at noon on in-depth, we will have a guest life taking your calls and discussing race relations and inequality. her many books include "the failures of integration," and " white space, black hood." on after words, row shares his book "dignity in a digital age." where he looks at the digital divide in america and offers suggestions to close the gap. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at booktv.org. ♪ >> exploring the people and events t

coming up next, or caddis mercatus center's weifeng zhong.ater jacob stokes at the new american security will hear to discuss national security threats to the united states. stick with us. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ >> next week on the c-span networks, the house and senate are both in session. the house takes up legislation to avert a shutdown. the senate will follow suit on that bill. the upper chamber continue work on president biden's judicial and executive nominations. on c-span3 the armed services committee holds a confirmation hearing for the lieutenant general to be the general of the u.s. central command. at 10:00 a.m. eastern u.s. surgeon general testifies before the senate finance committee on shortfalls and mental health care for children and teenagers in america. on wednesday at 10:00 eastern on c-span3, the senate commerce committee holds a hearing for the head of the federal communications commission. also on wednesday on c-span.org and on the video app, the chair of the commodity futures trading commission testifies before the

coming up next, or caddis mercatus center's weifeng zhong.ater jacob stokes at the new american security will hear to discuss national security threats to the united states. stick with us. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ >> next week on the c-span networks, the house and senate are both in session. the house takes up legislation to avert a shutdown. the senate will follow suit on that bill. the upper chamber continue work on president biden's judicial and executive nominations. on c-span3 the armed services committee holds a confirmation hearing for the lieutenant general to be the general of the u.s. central command. at 10:00 a.m. eastern u.s. surgeon general testifies before the senate finance committee on shortfalls and mental health care for children and teenagers in america. on wednesday at 10:00 eastern on c-span3, the senate commerce committee holds a hearing for the head of the federal communications commission. also on wednesday on c-span.org and on the video app, the chair of the commodity futures trading commission testifies before the

damaged because of the covid restrictions maybe don't wonder why they are watching these olympics weifeng zhonglation hitting high, more on the rising cost that are raising concerns. ♪ ♪ ♪ et dagen: welcome back, i'm dagen mcdowell, it's friday february 11th, a look at markets at the bo testimony of the hour. futures extending losses after yesterday's down day. we have a triple-digit loss on the dow futures right now. sizable loss on the nasdaq 100 futures as the morning moves on. all three of the major market gauges negative yesterday following hotter than expected data. january consumer price index jumped 7 and a half percent year over year. that's the fastest pace, the hottest rate of inflation that we have seen in 40 years. european markets in the red, losses in england, france and germany. cac down more than 1%. in asia overnight, markets mostly lower. the nikkei and japan the only market in the green this friday. and some of the top stories we are following this morning, new satellite images showing russian military build-up in crimea, western russia and belarus surrounding ukraine from 3