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aishah hasnie from taipei, molly. molly: for more on this, we're joined by republican congresswoman from iowa and a member of the house appropriations committee and serves on the select committee on china. thank you for joining us and giving us time on easter weekend. we heard this brilliant reporting from aishah hasnie there on the ground in taiwan and you also met with the president when she came here to the united states, and now, we're seeing this rather dramatic response from china. they had threatened you prior to the meeting, sending you these e-mails and you went to the meeting jean way and u.s. officials showing solidarity with taiwan, but now this response from china is fairly significant, the most potentially significant show of force in this kind of war game fashion that we've seen in quite some time. your reaction to chinese, to the chinese response. do you think it's at all proportional and do you have any particular concerns about it? >> well, first and foremost, i won't be bullied and i won't be deterr

but first to aishah hasnie with a delegation spent several days. but shanna good morning to you. there is a very tense situation unfolding right now about 50 miles away in the taiwan strait. reuters is reporting there's about about 20 naval vessels about half chinese half taiwanese they were caught locked up in a quote standoff just near the median line. now, as you know this is a second day of military drills by the ccp. a whopping 70 chinese aircraft were detected just today. half of those across the median line. the military also stimulating precision strikes against taiwan this weekend. all of this, in reaction to historic events this week between the u.s. and taiwan. >> u.s. lawmakers standing firm with taiwan's present drink eight to rally ally support for the tiny island under the threat of communist china. cracks not since war ii have we seen such a struggle for the global balance of power progress house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul telling fox news the goal is deterring an invasion. but if it happened sending u.s. troops is not out of the question. so, you are

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team coverage continues now with aishah hasnie live from taipei. what are the taiwanese people telling you about their faith in the u.s., do they believe that americans will come to their aid if it comes down to it? >> hey, gillian, good to see you. most folks not too confident in the u.s. and whether the u.s. would actually take any action if china were to invade. we have been talking about people here on the ground in taipei as soon as we touched down, they are extremely worried, even folks with ties to mainland china, parents, grandparents who still live there, they do not want war. >> so worried, coast -- taiwan a little country. >> are you worried about china invading taiwan? >> not worried. >> a lot of people concerned, i heard a lot of people trying to apply for immigration to other countries. >> so china already taking action this morning, taiwan's defense ministry announced a chinese aircraft carrier fleet has passed through the channel southeast of taiwan. launched the first west pacific training. we could see even more action from china,

aishah hasnie has the details from taipei. >> jon, good evening to you.here in taipei are going about their daily lives despite the fact china is flexing its military muscles less than 100 miles away from this island. brand-new video released by the ccp shows a china's people liberation army watching three days of military drills. seventy-one chinese army jets and nine navy vessels were seen in just one day. some of these jets are crossing the median line and the taiwan strait for this happening presumably in response to a big meeting between president tsai ing- wen and kevin mccarthy earlier this week. also bipartisan delegation visiting in taipei during a three-day visit. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul who led that delegation told fox a goal of this trip is to rally l.a. support in the pacific and try to deter innovation. but if it were to happen sending u.s. troops he says is not out of the question. mccall telling me why it is critical that americans support taiwan. >> 90% of the advanced semiconductor capabilities for the world in manu

aishah hasnie is reporting live from capitol hill live for us. aishah? >> hi, sandra.nder oath facing a panel that is looking in to why schools were kept closed during the pandemic when they feel schools should have been opened. she might have her brand new attorney by her side tomorrow during this hearing. the president of the american federations of teachers has had this new attorney who is defended in the past people like chri christine blase ford. he's sent a letter to the committee's chairman accusing this panel of using false and misleading claims as the basis for their investigation. so the covid subcommittee is investigating the teacher's union role in editing the cdc's covid-19 student guidance and keeping schools closed longer than necessary. it was discovered that the use junes discovered language that wound up in the cdc reopening school guidance in 2021. >> very early on, it was shown that schools were not super spreader events and very low risk to children, that they didn't seem to transmit to a dd adults and teachers were not getting ill. the learning lo

fox news aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill. reporter: that is right, there was a stunning claim that shocked people, lawmakers on both sides. that is when special inspector general of afghanistan john accused the biden administration of obstruct will his investigation into the billions of dollars that u.s. is sending to the country, telling lawmakers he has hit so many walls with the state department, he does not know if that money is going to the afghan people or taliban. >> the lack of cooperation by state. i'm talks about the department of state and to a lesserr extending usahas been unprecedented in two decades i did congressional over site in senate and house. due to this refusal to fully cooperate, a significant portion of the work including the two -- five reports we did for this commit have been hindered and delayed. unfortunately. as i sit here today. i cannot assure this committee or american taxpayer we're not currently funding the taliban. reporter: a scathing accusation there. white house denying that administratio

mccaul spoke exclusively with congressional correspondent aishah hasnie today. e joins us from taipei where it is 6:00 p.m. saturday morning. hello, aishah. >> hello there, good evening to you, mike. that's right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it's really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. >> conflict is always a last resort. >> house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn't want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. >> speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there's any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? >> i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. >> would you support that. >> if the america

all that perhaps in response, aishah hasnie more on all this where it is 4:24 a.m. in the morning.s either eric, good to see you. china is flexing its military muscle right now less than 100 miles away from this very small island. and video was just released today from the ccp showing the people's liberation army launching three days of military drills. taiwan is spotting at least 71 army jets and nine naval vessels in just one day. forty-five of those jets crossing the median line in the taiwan strait pet and also into taiwan's air defense identification zone. this is all course happening presumably in response to that meeting with the president tsai ing- wen and kevin mccarthy earlier this week with all the bipartisan delegation visit with tsai ing- wen in taipei during the three-day visit to the island house foreign affairs michael mccaul telling fox news the goal of their trip was to rally ally support and they pacific, south korea, japan and tried to deter an invasion. but, he also told me at that date came sending u.s. troops was not out of the question. now, why does taiwan

>> bret: aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. aishah, thanks.we will meet the hero who helped a couple under attack by a mob in chicago. first, beyond our borders tonight. terrified sudanese people flee the capitol after being trapped for days in their homes by fighting around them. this comes after the failure of an internationally brokered truist between government forces and rebels there. explosions shook the capitol city of khartoum as the army and rival paramilitary force battled in the streets there for a fifth day. about 15 a 5,000 canadian federal workers walk off the job for failing to reach higher wages and work from home guarantees. effects a range of public services from tax returns to passport renewals. and united nations data indicates india is on its way to becoming the world's most populous nation. its population is estimated at 1,429,000,000 now. china has 1,426,000,000 people. the u.s. is a distant third at 340 million people. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ i bought the team!

correspondent aishah hasnie joins us live from the north lawn tonight. vening, aishah. >> good evening to you, bret. you know what? right now we are just about one week away from when president biden made his 2020 announcement that could be a very interesting date to watch coming up here in a week. but, so far, all indications all signs show that those 2024 talks are ramping up. >> president biden keeping a low profile since his return to the white house. but, behind the scenes, a "new york times" is reporting closed door planning meetings involving white house officials. the democratic national committee and outside advisers are intensifying over when to announce a 2024 run. >> we will announce it relatively soon. >> while biden takes his time, some conservatives fear 2024 is turning into a repeat of past elections. >> i'm a big believer we have lost some independents. we have lost the younger voters. disenfranchised young republicans that should be very excited to be on our team are not right now and that's what you need. >> one issue that could turn of

in taipei aishah hasnie thank you very much.e white house to vetting the review -- the withdrawal from afghanistan, the long-awaited report blames the trump administration for the chaos that we saw in the turmoil during the exit operation. administration basis in the hands were tied were they? lucas tomlinson's life at the warehouse of the very latest on this from the white lawn. dictate not only does not report blame the previous ministration from the counter withdrawal from afghanistan made the admission the evacuation should discernment. earlier lawmakers reacted on f fox. >> and by administration should focus on a new doctrine of strength as opposed this doctrine of chaos and appeasement have annexed all of the world. it has weakened us on the global stage of type time we change the way we are addressing these issues across the world progress i believe the way that it happened and 13 soldiers lives were lost was one of the saddest moments for me of his administration. he was a commander in chief then. but let's be really cle

eric aishah hasnie live in taipei for us, thank you. arthel? arthel: for more on this, let's bring in kiron skinner, professor of international relations, and politics at pepperdine university and a fox news contributor. as you see it, kiron, what is at stake here? >> what's at stake is the, really the control of the incopacific region -- indo-pacific region, making sure that china is not in charge of the economies of the region, the political dynamics and of the sea lanes, that they remain open for commerce. that's a huge task, but around the chinese action its skittishness, its nervousness about the historic week in california at the reagan library where a bipartisan group of american lawmakers met with the taiwanese president to talk about keepenning economic ties -- deepening economic dies, keepenning bilateral trade, more military assistance and grants and even democracy promotion, china finds itself with a south south korea that has its own indo-pacific strategy that is tilting toward western values, toward the rule-based international or

>> bret: aishah hasnie live in taipei. thanks. >> for all this talk of chaos i didn't see it. from my perch. it was tough in the first few hours. you would expect it to be. >> while it's been hard and messy, and, yes, far from perfect, i've honored that commitment. [shouting] >> when a civil war comes to an end with an opposing force marching on the capitol, there are going to be scenes of chaos. >> so i'm sorry, i just don't buy the whole argument of chaos. >> bret: administration insisting this report about the afghanistan withdrawal is actually the fault of the president's predecessor, former president donald trump. joining us tonight, fox news senior strategic analyst retired general jack keane. general, great to see you. it's really interesting reading through this and going back and thinking about those days and how this all went down. your thoughts on this? >> yeah, well, certainly this is president biden's decision. yes, did president trump make a decision and talked about withdrawal? yes, he did. did he enter into negotiations with the taliban? and they cut a deal bac

aishah hasnie asking what are the plans and michael mccaul saying, i can't disclose that, it would benate if the chinese communist party carried those out. what is your reaction to that kind of a threat? >> i'm glad michael mccaul is over there, it is like us navigating free navigation in the south china sea. no one can tell us who to be friends with, that is like an abusive relationship right there. >> todd: mike, how concerned are you for our lawmakers who ventured into taiwan for this historic meeting with the vice president and later meeting with the president in a couple days and china responding like this. >> i think it is basically -- i expected that kind of response, but however, i want to tell you all this, in china there are certain -- chinese communist party that want to control the economy, want to be friends with america, so hopefully this will finally win over -- tension escalate. >> todd: this first topic here, are you encouraged by the meeting with kevin mccarthy and the taiwan ease president here in the u.s. and follow-up meeting with these congressional leaders and t

congressional correspondent aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. she's following this hearing for us. hi, aishah. >> hi, martha. one of the first revelations cane out, randy weingarten said the cdc reached out to her in the first place. while there were a number of ideas that her union handed over, there was one edit that was accepted. house republicans want to know why this union and why randy weingarten were getting involved in these scientific guidelines in the first place during -- critics say that the guidelines kept schools closed longer than needed. here's chairman win -- wenstrup. >> it was called into question why you were advising cdc in the first place. the scientific expertise of the aft is called in to question and called in to question is the high level of access and influence the aft was provided by the cdc. >> now, martha, weingarten is expected to tell lawmakers that her union had a limited role in the cdc guidance. her attorney is here. he's accused the committee of basing their investigation on false allegations. here's part of we

mccaul spoke exclusively with congressional correspondent aishah hasnie today. , aishah. >> hello there, good evening t

aishah hasnie is in taipei with that side of the story. aishah? >> hey, neil. good to see you., you heard chairman gallagher there just say it's really important for congress to turn their words in to action. i would say that is incredibly important for the taiwanese people to hear right now, this meeting between speaker mccarthy and the president may not go far enough for these folks here who are very concerned about a possible invasion. they frankly do not believe that the u.s. would come in and intervene on taiwan's behalf in case that invasion happens. listen to this. >> do you think america should support taiwan? >> i think america only care about themselves. that's the main point. we don't trust. they only care about themselves. >> she says we don't trust them. so why is there so much distrust on the ground here in taipei? i can tell you that's because the taiwanese are watching what's happening in europe, in ukraine. they don't like it. on top of that, neil, taiwan as you know is the largest maker of advanced chips. they refer to their manufacturer here, tsmc, they call

aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill. what is the white house saying about the hearing? >> the white house was sending out a memo attacking house republicans even before the hearing started, they said extreme maga republicans would be holding a politically motivated hearing in which they would claim the biden administration was obstructing oversight. that claim is actually not coming from republicans, but directly from an independent special inspector general. john sopko is 1 of 4 i.g.s testifying in the house oversight committee hearing. he's been looking into the $8 billion that we have sent to the afghan people after the withdrawal and he told the committee directly today that the lack of cooperation by the state department is unprecedented. listen. >> as i sit here today i cannot assure this committee or the american taxpayer we are not currently funding the taliban. >> when he asked state how much money is the taliban getting from those programs, they couldn't answer. because they don't know. >> even democrats have been dismayed by this, watch. >> i regret today qui

overnight, leaders in taiwan hosted join press conference and congressman michael mccaul told aishah hasniewould consider boots on the ground . >> arm taiwan before any sort of invasion, what about u.s. troops? >> if communist china invades taiwan, i think that is certainly if the american people support this, the congress will follow. conflict is a last resort. i think we're here to provide deterrence, to demonstrate to china it would be a gross miscalculation, just like putin invading ukraine was gross miscalculation. >> will: china sanctions reagan library and hudson's. joining us on congressman french hill, part of the delegation. thank you for being with us, congressman. this is reminiscent, to be honest, to the conversation when we landed in ukraine. when i hear michael mccaul say, we'll follow the american people. are the american people ready and willing to have this war on two fronts across the globe? >> well, will, it is great to be with you. good morning. my point of view on this, i don't think we deterred vladamir putin in the decade that led up to the invasion in ukraine. quite

. >> aishah hasnie is on the ground with more on this. hello, aishah. >> hi there, anita and john. chairman mccaul, in order to avoid conflict but told me that authorizing war powers not out of the question here. >> so speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now, that we need to arm taiwan now before there is any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? >> then you are talking about authorized use of military force that would come out of my committee or a declaration of war, which we have not utilized since world war ii. >> would you support that? >> if china, communist china invades taiwan, i think that is certainly, if the american people support this, the congress will follow. >> so tensions have been ramping up ever since taiwan's president met with house speaker kevin mccarthy in california this week. in fact, that meeting has now resulted in china slapping sanctions on any one who helped to put that together. the hudson institute, the ronald reagan presidential library, and the four leaders of these two locations are all sanctioned now, means they can no

today's meeting out in simi valley, taiwan is hoping for more reassurance, team coverage with aishah hasnie, she joins us live from taipei. china is forging ahead, taking some pretty significant action. >> hey, good afternoon to you, gillian. that's exactly right. just in the last few hours, the defense ministry announced a chinese aircraft carrier fleet, a whole fleet has now passed through the boshe channel, southeast of taiwan. that means china has now launched its first west pacific training exercise. we expected some kind of response to this mccarthy meeting today, because a year ago when former speaker nancy pelosi visited this island we began to see chinese jets flying very, very close to this island, even crossing the median line almost every single day. amped up the military exercises and we could see even more action later this week. china as you heard william say is condemning this meeting between mccarthy and the president, and the entire transit through america, she's been visiting with a few countries that still have diplomatic relations with the island, about 13 left now in t

road after met with speaker of the house kevin mccarthy last week for congressional correspondent aishah hasnie next line palm good evening a tense situation underway about 50 miles away in the taiwan strait. reuters is reporting about 20 naval vessels half chinese have taiwanese are locked in" standoff near the median line. china is down into its third and final day of military drills. a whopping 70 chinese aircraft detected on sunday. half of those crossing the median line. the military also stimulating precision strikes against taiwan this weekend. reaction to what is been historically for u.s./taiwan relations. babineau in the u.s. more law and they support sending u.s. troops in to save the tiny island. >> a question for the conversation we have a defense agreement with the island of taiwan? if we don't should be have one? but yes i will be government open using u.s. forces to defend taiwan from international security interest to do so. >> a spokesperson for the american institute in taiwan tells fox they are monitoring the situation and beijing's actions closely. when there is no reason f

we've got aishah hasnie in taiwan with more. aishah, what's going on here? reporter: hey there, good to see , neil. everyday it's something new from china. we expected some actions or response to that big meeting between house speaker kevin mccarthy and president in california this week, and ever since then, every single day we've seen something from chaina now we've got these sanctions on the people and places that help put this meeting together, so let's take a look at the list that the people or excuse me that the ccp has now sanctioned the hudson institute at the top of that list, ronald regan presidential library of course, that was the venue for this meeting, and the four leaders of these two locations, so what this means is that they can no longer engage in any activities with the communist party. now, china is claiming that these places and people provided a "platform and convenience" to taiwan, separate activities and now tensions have been ramping up this week. even moreso when this bipartisan delegation touched down in taipe i for this three-day v

let's go to aishah hasnie on taipei trying to see what's going on. aishah? >> hi, neil. good to see you. so absolutely we expected to see some kind of response from china to these back-to-back meetings not only with kevin mccarthy but now this delegation that landed today. they're due to stay in taiwan for about three days. that is a number of days that china plans to inspect ships that are passing through the taiwan strait. on top of that, the people's liberation army, navy sent three ships to surround this island a few hours before the u.s. deligation landed. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul is leading this delegation. i asked him about those chinese ships during his meeting with the president. watch. >> we know they have certain plans. whether they carry those off, i don't know. but i think there will be a very unfortunate stake on the part of the chinese communist party. >> what are those plans? can you elaborate? >> i can't. >> yeah, he doesn't want to tell us what those plans are for those ships. at home, the state department is responding to all of th

here's congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. >> while president biden is fighting to clean up toxiclution and lower costs through clean energy tax credits, speaker mccarthy unveiled a ransom note holding our committee hostage. >> a spending showdown between the white house and house republicans is heating up ahead of a critical house vote next week on speaker kevin mccarthy's debt limit package that attempts to claw back years of democratic spending. >> the president said he wanted a plan. we put forth a plan. >> mccarthy's plan would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion with a promise of 4.5 trillion in savings over the next decade by targeting president biden's student loan bailout. money for new irs agents, and green subsidies tucked away in the democrats' inflation reduction act. >> we would repeal this extreme green new deal. >> president biden dismissing the deal but a growing number of house democrats are calling on him to negotiate with house republicans. representative jared moskowitz telling axios i do think the president and the speaker should always talk. progressives

aishah hasnie has more. >> christopher wray is making the case to congress why his bureau should getillion of taxpayer money. he says they need it to fight china. take a listen. >> my priority has been since early during my time as director the chinese government and the chinese communist party, which represents the greatest threat to our country. we've grown the number of investigations in to the chinese government and their actors by about 1,300%. >> ray says the fbi has more than 2,000 open investigations in to the china threat. republicans on the committee spent time criticizing the raid at trump's mar-a-largo estate. wray insists his agents are focused only on the law enforcement mission. >> i've turned over the entire leadership team since i joined the fbi. i put in place all kinds of new policies, procedures, trainings, systems enhancements. all to reinforce that sort of top-line message that i was describing to you a minute ago, which is that we're going to follow the facts wherever they lead. >> earlier today, the justice department's inspector general was grilled about alle

i am aishah hasnie. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: good morning afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. kayleigh mcenany , marc thiessen and juan williams kicking off a big news hour. we begin with new fox polling showing president biden's approval below 50% now. under water on all the biggest issues. these just came out. we have national security, immigration, guns, the economy, china. obviously a very big issue. a topic that raised a few eyebrows yesterday with the president's answer to this question. watch this. >> my desire to increase the u.s. manufacturing and jobs in america is not about china. i'm not concerned about china. >> martha: can that, we break in kayleigh mcenany , co host of "outnumbered" and marc thiessen is with us, fox news contributor and juan williams, senior political analyst for fox news. we start with kayleigh mcenany . great to have you with us. from the press perspective, one thing that got attention about this particular answer is the president had a card in his hand with a picture of the reporter and the question essentially, more or

here is congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. >> ai is amazes.different ways. it can also kill us. >> democrat representative ted lu wants to prevent artificial intelligence from launching a nuclear weapon. >> we want to make sure that it's a human being making the decision. >> so he has teamed up with a group of bipartisan lawmakers on a bill that would turn a current pentagon policy into law. the defense department mandates that humans must be in the loop for any nuclear launches by an automated new law prevent any federal dollars being used to get around that several lawmakers on the hill like the idea. but some want to know if the bill would hold our military back. i'm checking with the department of defense and myrtle leaders to make sure that some of the language in the bill wouldn't unintentionally harm our military readiness. >> would china follow along with this? does it matter if china and russia and other adversarial countries don't do the same thing? >> it meashts. hopefully they will recognize the dangers to the world and their own p

i am aishah hasnie. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: good morning afternoon.rc thiessen and juan williams kicking off a big news hour. we begin with new fox polling showing president biden's approval below 50% now. under water on all the biggest issues. these just came out. we have national security, immigration, guns, the economy, china. obviously a very big issue. a topic that raise

aishah hasnie has more she is in taiwan. as eric, good afternoon. tense situation is underweight right now. just about 50 miles away in the taiwan strait. reuters is reporting about 20 naval vessels half chinese half taiwanese are locked in a quote stand off to that median line. the final day of military drills. a whopping 70 chinese aircraft detected on sunday. half of those crossing the median lied the military also simulating precision strikes against taiwan this weekend. all of this in reaction to what has been a historic week for u.s. taiwan relations. back at home in the u.s., more lawmakers say they support sending u.s. troops in to see the tiny island. >> should be have a defense agreement with taiwan? if not should we have one? i'll be very much open to using u.s. forces to defendant taiwan because it is international security interest to do so. >> a spokesman for the american institute in taiwan tells fox they are monitoring beijing's actions closely. there is no reason for the ccp to overreact. back to you. >> right thank you so much. art

. >> i'm aishah hasnie. nice to see you this weekend.des of the rile and we'll go to the white house where president biden is planning to make headlines of hi

our reporter aishah hasnie traveled it. >> steve: mccaul.aints ains are you going to promise the taiwanese the u.s. will come to its military aid in case of an invasion? mccaul said that's ultimately under the taiwan relations act that you were talking about, that the u.s. will provide taiwan with arms. >> brian: with arms. would we fight is the key. >> ainsley: it says but ultimately, sorry, that decision will be made by the american people. >> brian: just get them the arms they paid for. let them fight for themselves. >> steve: the background is, remember, china is cozying up to russia and russia is waging that war. there is just a whole bunch of stuff going on over there. we are going to detail that in the next hour talking a little bit about the chinese currency which is shocking. meanwhile joni ernst, t from the state of my birth iowa is going to join us. >> ainsley: police are investigating the brutal murder of the cash app founder bob lee after he was stabbed to death in san francisco. his colleagues now say city leaders have blood on

mccaul spoke with aishah hasnie if the u.s.end troops if china invades taiwan. >> it's always a last resort. i think we are here to provide tee terence. to demonstrate to china that it would be a gross miscalculation. if communist china invaded taiwan it would certainly be on the table and something that would be discussed by congress and with the american people. are they prepared to do this? is taiwan worth it? i can argue for a lot of reasons why it is. >> the president of taiwan is returning home today after a quick stop over in the u.s. that included a meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy. she will meet with that u.s. delegation tomorrow. cash app founder bob lee's tragic final moments and just a warning the security footage we are going to show you graphic nature. video exobtained by "the daily mail" shows a wounded lee dropping to the ground after a stabbing attack in front of his luxury san francisco apartment building. he clutches his side and tries to wave down passing cars for help. actress sarah foster daughter

. >> gillian: aishah hasnie on the ground in ty daipei. >> john: jump back to paris, things are out of hand there, 100,000 people have taken to the streets, you see a lot of smoke in the air, fires being set. we don't know if riot police who have assembled in paris are using tear gas to fend off the protestors, or if that's just smoke from fires being set. we did see pictures earlier, it would appear to just be fires. we saw some pictures earlier of people rubbing their eyes, some irritation potentially from pepper spray. no indication tear gas is being used. but going on for the 11th straight day. and it really has affected everything that's going on in paris, including the planned visit of king charles. that had been postponed after protestors were taking to the streets and really causing such an issue, macron is looking at the math and saying there is not enough revenue from population growth to deal with the expenses of the retirement at the age of 62, people live longer, medicine is helping them do that, the only way to keep pensions

washington correspondent aishah hasnie has all the details. what can we expect to hear today?egarten is expecting to tell lawmakers that her union had any limited role in any cdc guidance involving schools, that the relationship between the two agencies was really normal but house republicans on this committee they're not buying this. today's panel is investigating potential political interference by the american federation of teachers with the cdc, specifically, lawmakers are drilling down on language that was suggested by the union that wound up in the cdc reopening guidance in early of 2021 and david, critics say that the biden administration here followed aft's influence, not the science which they blame for the failing grades and the rising mental health issues that follow. >> instead we got guidelines from the teachers union that were just plugged right into the cdc guidelines without question, without changing one word. we're going to be pointing that out. you know the other thing is, the teachers union, they were more focused, brian on what they need to be closed as op

. >> i'm aishah hasnie. nice to see you this weekend.e'll get reaction from both sides of the rile and we'll go to the white house where president biden is planning to make headlines of his own with his official 2024 campaign announcement, but first, alexandra hoff has the latest on the hunter biden probes. >> there's a lot going on here. prosecutors are looking into two misdemeanor tax charges, felony tax evasion charge and a felony gun charge relate today a purchase, but sources say this is not an indication that charges are imminent and that this meeting is not related to a claim by an irs agent turned whistleblower that the biden administration has mishandled the case. >> he knows when to spot, when other investigative steps aren't done in the traditional way to get at the truth and he has spotted and observed things that are done differently in this particular matter. >> that's the whistleblower's attorney there, that he seeks to provide details sworn testimony by congress by a senior appointee and multiple reports named that as mer

aishah hasnie has more on what went down from capitol hill. >> good morning to you, during that heatedhree hour long hearing randi weingarten was trying to convince lawmakers that teachers new they had to be in school. they just wanted to be safe, weingarten testified in front of the committee on the coronavirus pandemic which is investigating potential political interference by the american federation of teachers at the cdc. after language suggested by the union wound up in the cdc's school reopening guidance and early of 2021. that is guidance that critics claim are keeping schools closed longer leading to failing grades and rising mental health issues among students nationwide. >> to remember have any edits that you suggested. >> we suggested concepts. >> you know how many edits were included. >> one. >> democrats accused republicans of scapegoating teachers even accusing former president trump of leaving them hanging. >> were you ever given guidance by the trump administration on how to safely return to anderson learning. >> no, we were working with governors, we were working with

he also told our aishah hasnie serving u.s.ops is on the table if china invades taiwan. >> reporter: so, speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times, that we need to arm taiwan now. what about u.s. troops? >> i think, you know, then you're talking about an authorized use of military portion that would come out of my committee or a declaration of war which we haven't utilized since world war ii. >> reporter: would you support that? >> i think if communist china invades taiwan, i think that is certainly the american people support this, the congress will follow. sean: this visit came days after house speaker kevin mccarthy is other lawmakers meant with taiwan's leader at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. mccarthy says the country's support for taiwan is resolute and unwavering. house china committee chairman mike gallagher said moments a after the meeting that washington shouldn't be scared to have these kind of meetings. >> some who fail to learn from decades of ccp behavior has been wringing

they aren't using outright cash to take over wwe, does that make sense but they are giving them aishah hasnieemium on what they are worth. stuart: i'm just looking at the wrestling people down nearly 10% let's talk about life storage combining with extra space storage. $12 billion. >> yeah, so why is this important? because look. we live in this world where all of a sudden we just got through the steepest rate hiking cycle since 1980 but yet people are willing to make deals in this environment so does this show maybe we're at the end of this tightening cycle since we have seen the first, best first quarter for the nasdaq 100 since, i mean, we're up 20% in a bull market run so that's why it's important to point out these deals taking place. stuart: it is important. could be a few deals coming. that's very nice. >> are you making any? i'd love to know. stuart: no. i'm sure the airlines are down. i've got it right the airlines are down because of the opec oil >> yeah, that's right. surprising everybody, opec + cutting a million barrels per- day. i saw some analysis saying that cartel cut could g

but aishah hasnie. >> hi, sandra, good afternoon to you.how tough the hearing is going to be for weingarten, she has a lawyered up, hiring a very well-known washington attorney, michael b bromwich has represented kim foxx, andrew mccabe, as the subcommittee investigates the american federation of teachers. the teachers' union, and its role in "editing the cdc covid-19 school reopening guidance and keeping schools longer than necessary," coming from the committee. it was discovered at the union suggested language actually wound up in cdc school reopening guidance in 2021, and expert witnesses came to the hill and they testified before the same committee that the science really just never justified the prolonged closing of schools. now, the closing of course are being blamed by critics for the learning loss and the rising toll on kids' mental health. >> i think that, you know, the cdc should have said look, we have science and data from here in the united states, we have data from sweden, from norway, from finland, from the u.k. and australia