. >> millions doing some kind of consultation, some kind of work for this chinese communist party backedting paid for. >> that's a. >> lot of money. and not. >> just this. chinese communist party backed company, but he also did consulting. >> work for. >> something called the. >> czechoslovak group. >> which has done propaganda for the kremlin. so how much. >> did. >> he get paid by them, and what did he do for them that. >> he got. >> paid for? these are the kind of things you would hope to know about a nominee for high office. >> particularly the director. >> of the fbi, that might be asked to look into kremlin propaganda operations in. >> the us. >> or chinese communist party. backed firms employing forced. >> labor or child labor. so we ought. >> to know the answers. and on top of the recent. >> whistleblower allegations that he may have. >> lied to our. >> committee about. >> his knowledge and. >> role in these firings of top. fbi officials, it reminds me, honestly, this is a bit of. a deep cut or it feels like it of. mike flynn, if you remember him. chris. mike flynn, trump's natio

address, president trump made it known that the united states cannot and will not allow the chinese communist party to continue with it's effective and growing control over the panama canal. following secretary reveals a successful 1st trip and visit there over the weekend, panama, as president said, he will allow its participation in the chinese communist parties. it will no longer allow the participation in the belt and road initiative that participation will expire. this is significant because panama was the 1st latin american nation to join belkin road and now becomes the 1st to back away from it because of president trump that we spoke to a pop. no one has seen a lecture. i had politics that need to national relations at the university of boss in the u. k. a. he says that the pressure on the part of my place into tom's empty china agend. these paula mall decision to which withdrawal from the family needs a 2 piece just to beginning over law, just mobile competition between us and china. i think i now think continuation old with the 1st trump administration world. we are going to expect from th

the tariffs are legitimate means of an end and i hope we've made known, and for the chinese communist partyple objectives that have to be completed not just on trade, but on national security as well. griff: in terms of the fentanyl, obviously, precursors coming from china and coming across our southern border with mexico, certainly perhaps part of it? >> undoubtedly. you know, i remember this from the first trump administration, president trump made clear to xi jinping he needed those flows reduced and got it for a time and it's now wandered off over the last four, four and a half years. we've got to get back, this is decimating communities across america and the chinese party has the action to pull it off if they choose and they chose not to. and we have to impose until they do. griff: and the middle east, great news today, more hostages, including keith siegel, one american, released today. we know there are six americans that remain in captivity, two of which we actually believe are alive. what do you make of today's development and where this heads? >> well, it's never bad news when am

china and worse than that, those precursor chemicals are illegal to sell in china and yet the chinese communist party actually incentivizes companies to produce them for export and they have no other use, by the way, except for fentanyl. it was something done by the chinese communist party on purpose to kill, basically, american lives. and that's why, when they ask why i'm so hawkish on china, i think they're our greatest threat, this is an example why i think they're our biggest threat. they did it on purpose and for no other reason for i guess to harm us and also make money. i now recognize myself for five minutes to opening statements -- for opening questions. mr. kroenig, you mentioned the presence of china and chinese controlled ports on both sides of the panama canal. how does that pose a threat to the united states? mr. kroenig: i think it poses a number of challenges, one, to the topic we just discussed, china is shipping fentanyl precursors through the panama canal. second, by operating the ports there and including surveillance, chinese surveillance technology, they're using that to collect

party has done a magnificent job penetrating my ethnic group and a lot of chinese-americans have been too willing to salute the communistg chinese-americans in with the rest of the american population about the communist party of china when they fly the communist flag in san francisco and new york and other places we know there is a really big problem in the united states. maria: what kind of policies do you expect to come out of the trump of administration to try to level all of this. clearly the president is talking about trade and tariffs in the 10% tariff input on china could go higher. it is more than just trade and again, they did not keep their promises from the last radio, why should they expect them to do that again. >> i would hope the president trump enforces the tariff active 1930 which prohibits importation into the u.s. of goods made with forced labor we know virtually all of china's green products are made with forced labor and many other chinese products are also made with such labor we need to enforce our own laws and keep the products out. it's elemental. if you have a lot you have to enforce it this w

address, president trump made it known that the united states cannot and will not allow the chinese communist party to continue with it's effective and growing control over the panama canal. following secretary reveals a successful 1st trip and visit there over the weekend, panama, as president said, he will allow its participation in the chinese communist parties. it will no longer allow the participation in the belt in road initiative that participation will expire. this is significant because panama was the 1st latin american nation to join belkin road and now becomes the 1st to back away from it because of president trump. that we spoke to populum wong and how senior electra right in politics and international relations at the university of boss in the u. k. he says that the pressure on the panama plays into chums antique china addendum sees paula mall decision to which withdrawal from them really needs a to is just the beginning of a law, jo, global competition between us and china. i think i now think continue asian, or with the 1st from administration war, we are going to expect from the dru

address, president trump made it known that the united states cannot and will not allow the chinese communist party to continue with it's effective and growing control over the panama canal. following secretary reveals a successful 1st trip and visit there over the weekend, panama, as president said, he will allow its participation in the chinese communist parties. it will no longer allow the participation in the belt and road initiative, that participation will expire this as they can advocate. because panama was the 1st latin american nation to join belkin road and now becomes the 1st to back away from it. because of president trump. why i want to bring in now sandra chan correspondence social thing. thank you very much for taking the time speaking to us . and so we've got this news, panama withdrawing from the b r. i a, the us openly admitting that yes, you know, we didn't like it, it was a red line for us. we basically forced that hand. but i want to us from beijing perspective. what does that mean for the infrastructure projects, both on the local, on a global scale? well, how much decision to

he thinks it's unacceptable that the canal is run by the chinese communist party. looking at both ends, massive chinese communist party linked to companies run the canal. that's unfair to the american people, many of whom lost their lives many years ago building this canal. the american taxpayers are paying millions for the canal and the president thinks it's in our national interest as a nation for secretary rubio to go there to begin these discussions and that's what he's doing that. >> thank you, caroline. is the united states in the process of pulling out of syria militarily because the president wanted to do that in his first term and he got pushed back from the pentagon and the congress? is he considering doing that in a short time? sec. leavitt: the president was asked to this yesterday and he answered. as the commander-in-chief of the u.s. military, he reserves the right to review troop deployments overseas at any time. >> two questions. we know that staffing was normal at the air traffic tower. will there be hiring of new workers? are you not afraid that mo

of sunshine towards the southwest, but those grey skies are likely to continue for most to chinese communist party, to facilitate, facilitate censorship requests. and they've taken loads of stuff down. apparently there's a there's a 5.6 million items of content it has named for removal. so there's a secret trove of all there's a secret trove of all the bad stuff they've taken out, like indiana jones. can you just love to rummage through that and just see what was there? >> i think most of the time i do when i'm on the internet. >> is this surprising? >> is this surprising? >> is this surprising? >> i mean, is anyone else? >> i mean, is anyone else? >> i mean, is anyone else? >> i thought we all knew this. >> i thought we all knew this. >> kind of thing. they did. i mean, their motto used to be don't be evil. then they changed. >> it to do. be evil. >> it to do. be evil. >> i mean, it's. >> not that's not true, guys. >> not that's not true, guys. >> but it's not surprising. >> but it's not surprising. >> we saw what the biden administration was up to, this big tech collusion, all this stuff, usaid.

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address, president trump made it known that the united states cannot and will not allow the chinese communist party to continue with it's effective and growing control over the panama canal. following secretary reveals a successful 1st trip and visit their over the weekend, panama, as president said, he will allow its participation in the chinese communist parties. it will no longer allow the participation in the belt in road initiative that participation will expire. this is significant because panama was the 1st latin american nation to join belgium road and now becomes the 1st to back away from it because of president trump. and to assist with the ongoing mass deportation effort. el salvador, as president, has agreed to most unprecedented migratory agreement anywhere in the world. because president trump is back in charge. el salvador has offered for illegal aliens of any nationality facing deportation in the us to be booked in his country's prison system. and finally, president trump's envoy for special emissions. rick are now traveled to venezuela and not only secured the release of 6 american

military uses droned my by dji a chinese communist party company? l the same way that you do. we've got to understand, unless we control our own military industrial complex, then someone else does, by definition the chinese communist party should not be person in charge of our military industrial complex, they should not they are not our friends. so i mean to me will have baffling that we are gearing up getting postured to potentially be involved in a global conflagration trying to avoid to depend on people running no way to run a railroad we need all capabilities back home do it as soon as possible. maria: all right. . >> one of the smartest guys i have met. >> was great so leap to have him on on sun on this program soon we'lls congressman, good to see you, sir, thank you derrick man ordin, gold prices record gains markets investors are watching president trump tariff plans with one eye on gold fundstrat global manager here to read tea leaves on markets you are watching "mornings with maria" live on "fox business" stay with us. where ya headed? susa

address, president trump made it known that the united states cannot and will not allow the chinese communist partycontinue with its effective and growing control over the panama canal. following secretary rubio's successful first trip and visit there over the weekend, panama's president said he will allow his participation in the chinese communist party's -- it will no longer allow the participation in the belt and road initiative, that participation will expire. this is significant because panama was the first latin american mission to join belt and road and now becomes the first to back away from it because of president trump. to assist in the ongoing mass deportation effort, el salvador's president has agreed to the most unprecedented agreement anywhere in the world. because president trump is back in charge, el salvador has offered for illegal aliens of any nationality facing deportation in the u.s., to be booked in his country's prison system finally, president trump's envoy for special missions will travel to venezuela and he not only secured the release of six american hostages, but minneso

being a billionaire in china is you don't get any say in the government unless you're the chinese communist party you can't buy influence here you can buy all the influence you want. so but i we have to locally organize engage with you know the capital in the global issues and oxfam is one of the best places to look for those. and continue to talk about and to rally around it and it in a very ways i don't know if i answered your question not, but that's a tried. you mentioned the an example from the 1930s and i think we have to remember that you know that was only possible because there were two extraordinary people in the white house that time. and it reminded of a book that the harvard economist ben friedman wrote called the moral consequences growth, in which he said that a liberal democracy is only possible when you've got an expanding economy, it starts contracting, that it shifts strongly to the right. and the only exception the only major exception he could find was franklin roosevelt. and the new deal. what do you think about that. it wasn't i mean, roosevelt was still an upper class elit

and that's tied to the survival and legitimacy of the chinese communist party. have some sort of tiny little picture of him as a child in your home, all of that can be penalized. seriously penalized. >> narrator: kate saunders has done extensive research on the story of the panchen lama. (keys clacking) she tracked down a rare photo of the missing boy. >> the tibetan script reads, "photograph of a family reunion." it seems to show gedhun choekyi nyima. he's got a toy helicopter, he's sitting on his father's lap. he could be around ten, around 11. this looks as though it's in some sort of official compound. and it does show us that the family was still together at that point. i believe it's genuine, but we still haven't been able to fully confirm that. it shows how successfully china has been able to disappear not only the child, but also, also his entire family, and to exclude them from any sort of public gaze whatsoever. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: the chinese government told us the the "so-called reincarnated child "is an ordinary chinese citizen, living a normal life. h

so they that these people, when the students go home they are debriefed by the chinese communist party. every bit of information then belongs to the chinese commonest party. it is two different systems, there is no question about it. but again it is really slammed the door on this thing. i have preached about this for years and with all due respect to the scientific community, i cannot get it through their head that this is a national security issue. they say we are all on this planet together but not only -- but yes to a degree, if we are fighting polio that is true or not when we designing quantum computers. it's not like that at all. so, and by the way i get real pushback from colleges and universities. there are millions of dollars been transferred from china to the colleges and university. those colleges and universities get defensive of the grants from the chinese commonest party. that is where we are, how do we get the word out to the community and how do we get the word out to americans that this is a huge problem. we have a few minutes left, start down here and give me your 32

because we know that when the chinese communist party puts up walls, what goes on inside them is never interest. we know that when the chinese communist party closes doors, the only thing they trap is. >> okay, that's you at the weekend outside the planned site for a new super embassy for china. but isn't it right that now the world's second biggest economy has a big embassy in london, tom tugendhat? >> look, there's nothing wrong with the chinese having an embassy in london. they've got an embassy in london. in fact, they've got embassy locations in different parts of london. what i question is the need for a super embassy and a super embassy right there. look, the royal mint and just opposite the tower of london have guarded britain's economy. they've been the centre for printing or or striking coins for a thousand years. and the idea that we should be handing over those sites to a country that is not just not just undermining our national security in various different ways, but threatening our economy. look, there are many people who will be watching your show tonight who are worrie

inaugural address, president trump made it known the united states cannot and will not allow the chinese communist partycontinue with its effective and growing control over the panama canal. following secretary rubio successful first trip and visit over the weekend, panama's president said he will allow participation in the chinese communist party's -- no longer allow the participation in the initiative and that participation will expire. this is significant because panama was the first latin american nation to join delton road in the first to back away from it because of president trump. and to assist with the ongoing mass deportation effort, el salvador's president agreed to unprecedented agreement anywhere in the world. because president trump is back in charge, el salvador has offered for illegal aliens have any nationality facing deportation in the u.s. to be booked in his country's prison system. and finally, president trump's ongoing for special missions ric grenell traveled to venezuela and secure the release of six american hostages, that venezuela also agreed to accept return of the tren de ar

. >> the leader has met with leadership of the chinese communist party and meaningful government events so he really is at the national leader. and did notch provide present. there are many mechanisms to support it to them. >> in terms of a model similar formats. ballpark similar performance as to what we were to what we were doing seven months ago. but in the technical papers you can see many things that they've done that are quite impressive technically and i talked the leading engineers of leading u.s. ai companies who are unknown to them. so some of the stuff we were already doing and some of this we learn by looking at their research results and approach. so they are a very impressive group. in the days of china cannot innovate, they can only copy, those days are over. this is a genuinely inventive company even if there are many things they are doing that america already did. there's also a genuine innovation here that america was not already doing. in terms of what it means for policy, the u.s. has a policy of export controls which means we restrict the sale of the advanced comput

well, chinese corporations tend to be under the thumb of the chinese communist party. and if the fbi is working against chinese intelligence interests, which it is every day, they now have huge leverage over this guy. >> in terms. >> of what they can do to either enhance or diminish the value of his chinese communist party controlled asset in this cayman islands shell corporation. >> it's pretty unbelievable. thank you for explaining it to everybody watching. >> possibly go wrong. right. >> what could possibly go wrong? let me ask you. i mean, he literally published a political enemies list in his book. there are a lot of people on there who are well known. some of them worked for trump in the first administration. some of them didn't. what can be done, if anything, to prevent him at this point from moving forward and pursuing actions against these individuals? >> well, the. >> first thing that will happen is. if anyone is charged with an offense or sent a notice that there's a subject of a grand jury investigation, they now have his whole background to take into court

chinese. >> communist party influence. has basically their own version of. >> usaid. >> and i want to read a little. >> bit of what. >> he wrote in that letter to biden. >> that we uncovered. he said, quote. >> we urge you. >> to use your fiscal year. 2023 budget. >> request for the defense department. >> the department. >> of state and u.s. agency for international development to. >> send a clear message. >> that the united. >> states has a comprehensive strategy to counter the chinese. communist party's. >> expanding global. >> influence and the increasing. threat that it poses to u.s. security interests and those of our allies. >> and partners. >> well, and he is a deeply serious secretary of state. i mean, belt and road initiative by china has been something that they've invested in and to counter. >> and we found. usaid letters in which. he or. >> press releases. >> on his website. >> where he. >> specifically mentioned. >> that and why we need usaid. >> right. so he makes all these points. he makes he makes all these

he said that it was necessary to counter chinese communist party influence. china has basically their own version of usaid, and i want to read a little bit of what he wrote in that letter to biden that we uncovered. he said, quote, we urge you to use your fiscal year 2023 budget request for the defense department. the department of state and u.s. agency for international development to send a clear message that the united states has a comprehensive strategy to counter the chinese communist party's expanding global influence and the increasing threat that it poses to u.s. security interests and those of our allies and partners. >> well, and he is a deeply serious secretary of state. i mean, belt and road initiative by china has been something that they've invested in and to counter. >> and we found that usaid letters in which he or press releases on his website, where he specifically mentioned that in why we need usaid. >> right. so he makes all these points, he makes he makes all these these very important points. but he actually from your reporting, then it

the regime has given the black seaport to the chinese communist party, and has visited the regime in teheran, as iran sends its assassins to murder president donald trump. legitimate georgian president who attended the trump inauguration is courageously standing for free and fair elections. in conclusion, god bless our troops as the global war on terrorism continues, open borders for dictators puts all americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent as warned by the f.b.i. mr. trump is reinstituting existing laws to protect american families with peace through strength. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? mr. mcgovern: seek to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, the party who proclaims to be america first is screwing over our farmers and making it harder for people in rural communities to survive. this unified republican government hasn't done one damn thing to support regula

on deep seek, you will never see any criticism of xi jinping of the communist chinese party. you won't see any support for taiwan and their freedom and opportunity there. this is something that shouldn't be on government devices. we cannot trust the ccp to be involved with this app and this a.i. apparatus. >> so, congressman, your concerns sound a lot like the concerns that you voiced when you voted for the tiktok ban last year. correct? >> correct. >> and president trump has kind of paused that because he said he used the app and he liked it. so what concerns do you have over the fact that that, you know, this ban, the tiktok ban that you voted on, that congress passed is not currently now being implemented? >> well. >> i think it will. i mean, it's going through the legal process. if you look at the vote in the house of representatives on the tiktok ban, overwhelmingly bipartisan. and by the way, at the time, jd vance supported it in the senate, marco rubio supported it. mike waltz supported it. elise stefanik supported it. all people in the new administration, i have confi

user data and stores it for use by the chinese communist party. gotjeimer called it a five-alarm national security fire. a spokesperson for deepseek did not respond to request for comment. >>> breaking overnight, a plane carrying ten people has gone missing in alaska. the cessna caravan was headed to nome when it disappeared off the radar 12 miles offshore. the plane belongs to bering air. the nome fire department is doing an active ground search. >>> turning to the tragic mid-air collision in washington, d.c. crews have recovered most of the wreckage of the military helicopter that crashed into an american airlines jet last week. the ntsb says the air traffic control display showed the helicopter was flying 100 feet above its limit at the time of the crash that killed 67 people. now the faa is taking steps to scale back air traffic into and out of washington's reagan national airport. it comes as president trump suggested the antiquated atc system played a role in the collision. >> we should have had better equipment. we don't. we have obsolete e

chinese companies are controlled by the communist party. how does china use control of those ports for economic gain? mr. sola: i am a regulator in the chinese ports you are referring to, let me put them in the scope, the one on the pacific is the same size as the port of houston and they do about 4 million containers a year. the one on the atlantic is the same as my hometown of miami. they do it by one million containers. where the port of houston generates $1 billion a year in miami does about $200 million the panama ports company paid zero for 20 years on that concession. it is hard to compete against zero. that is our economic concern we would have. chair cruz: anything to add on that? mr. maffei: i also think it is important. i would point out you do not have to stop in either port. it is not like the ports control the entrance to the canal. however i think it is of concern. i would also point out that the panamanian government thinks it is of concern because they are conducting their own audit. we remain interested as well. chair cruz:

what does it say about the chinese communist party allowing americans to research empire weapons in any case on their, on their soil? if it does, the eyes did not issue a, a conclusion. it's, it's more sort of a like by likelihood finding under new leadership uh, which is more hostile to china. but my colleagues, sam, he said he who also intervened in the blinking and final press conference broke the story. that usa id and the pentagon through darpa were funding eco health alliance, which was conducting gain of function research, very dangerous gain of function research at the woo, honda institute over ology. and that, to me seems that that's the area where we deserve more d classification. more testimony from figures like peter das sac, who are involved as well as anthony vouching and have voucher you having been pardoned. some pre empt dooley by joe biden, on his way out actually opens him up to more testimony. the public does deserve answers about this virus which continues to up and lives and whose response was mishandled. so catastrophically by figures who appear to have been invol

the side that is most likely to gain from that of course is, is the chinese communist party. not only does it distract, suggest, weakens to us as alliances. and it will make all the countries look toward china as a trading partner over the us. if this is how do us is going to saturate policy? i'm afraid i'm just returning to what to adjusting to those. so just a couple of minutes ago he said quote, the back to pos is to partner with canada, not to punish us. do you think that's a threat to an olive branch? i mean, i think it's a realistic assessment of a situation. i think this is a, this is going to be a situation where there's only losers. um and i, i do think that if the, the us and canada worked together, they're strong that together. it's what we've done for, for a long, long time, both economically, militarily in, in intelligence gathering. there are no problems here that, that can only be resolved through to this kind of trade conflicts. i would also note that the argument that the top of the message that use imposing the stairs aren't candidate which, which includes a

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the general's in charge and others testifying and ringing the alarm bells about about the chinese communist parties presence in our own hemisphere, particularly in the panama canal. now we're seeing the leadership of panama, step away from the belt and road program, move away from china and back towards the united states and even enter into talks and other negotiations about addressing the ports on either side of the canal. and then finally didn't last but not least we've had for world leaders in the white house in the oval office. we've had the prime minister of japan, the prime minister of india, the king of, of jordan. and of course, the prime minister of israel, just in the last 4 weeks and next week we'll have the prime minister of the united kingdom and will have the president of france, my crone. so president trump is on what we call trump work speed. uh, we are all, uh, we are all honored to be really serving under, under his leadership and his vision. and truly, you know, when we all say and the president himself say, says he is a president of peace. he is a president focused on restoring

who as i guess stock options worth $1 million to $5 million from a company financed by the chinese communist party? and we still don't know what he did to earn $1 million to $5 million from a company affiliated with the chinese communist party who made money from some arms conglomerate with ties with putin? we don't know what he did to earn money from them either. this is really astounding that we are where we are. i've known kash patel since he was a staffer for devin nunes. he's not someone that you would ever think of when you think of fidelity, bravery, integrity. not when he was a staffer, not when he was in the trump administration. in fact, the people who speak the most damming will you have kash patel are the people who worked with him in the administration. people like bill barr who for a lesser position said over my dead body when asked about kash patel. it's a tragedy for the fbi that it comes to this. i can't imagine the demoralization at the fbi and department of justice. the damage will be long, long-standing. it seems my colleagues are determined to confirm him on the senate floor.

he went on to say that corporations are helping the chinese communist party cover up genocide and slave labor in the region. that is secretary rubio. and as we speak, he is allowing elon musk to essentially take over usaid. this is a corrupt abuse of power that is going on. as my colleagues said, it is not only a gift to our adversaries but trying to shut down the agency for international development by executive order is playing illegal -- is plain illegal. it is illegal. elon musk may get to be dictator of tesla. he does not -- he may trait -- he may try to play dictator in washington, d.c. but he doesn't get to shut down the agency for international development. as we are speaking, at a federal court, district court right down the road, there is an ongoing hearing about the earlier effort of the trump administration to stop federal grants around the country to communities and people in need. there is a stay on that. in rhode island, the attorneys general got a tro on that. what you are seeing here with respect to usaid is a continuing effort around those illegal actions. over the wee