julie. >> julie: all right, mike emanuel, thank you. >> bill: get some analysis. dan hoffman former c.i.a. station chief serving in moscow, iraq and pakistan. good morning. the last house speaker to go to taiwan was newt gingrich in 1997. china is warning us about serious consequences. how do you read that, dan? >> listen, the last thing we should be doing is allowing china to exercise any sort of command and control over which senior u.s. officials travel overseas including two taiwan. it is china that is militarizing the south china sea, conducting espionage operations, building out a nuclear arsenal. they are tlenting the region and beyond. right now we need to up our commitment to our regional allies in asia.