the chinese communist party has embedded itself within our actual u.s. port systems here. the supply chain, critical infrastructure, software. this includes through port equipment like ship to shore cranes, which the u.s. exploited -- which could be exploited for cyber espionage, logistical disruptions or good old-fashioned spying. how do we get around this? we have seen this salt typhoon and a series of m.s.s., state security out of china, threatening the united states and very little happening to hold these bad actors accountable whether in latin america or right in beijing? mr. davis: thanks for the question. there are three answers to it. first, it's the court industry's partnership with government and all the agencies that lead on cybersecurity or otherwise security measures at the ports, including u.s. coast guard, cisa, and the like. it's similarly within industry we share threat ports, terminals, and other maritime players all share threats amongst each other so they can identify malicious codes, spearfishing techniques, etc. so everyone's on guard and seeing the s

the still ahead on the all to 0 news, our china as communist party officials gather in beijing, will tell you about the priorities they are setting out for this year. us, my administration will be reclaiming the panama canal and we've already started doing a waterway at the heart of her rapidly deteriorating relationship between the united states and one of his closest regional allies. coming up and support football team taking part in this year. as the sub club, the world are set to share a record of price that's coming up. which of the maybe not surprisingly, the assessment of spring in the through much of the european planning. this is sunshine ever increasingly rising temperatures, pressure is high and therefore it's pretty settled steering over wet and windy weather around the gulf, particularly orland scuffed and and no way we get regular snow here, but also allowing it to be pretty wet in spain and portugal as you may well be aware over the last few sites that have been yet more flooded, and we probably want to concentrate on what's happening down here. robin, what's happening

early ones to note what the threat was coming out of china, to note that it was ridiculous for communist partyn not in your state, your watch, assess you're the threat a what you are doing. >> i don't think there is any question that china is most formidable adversary we finally have a president pushing back holding then accountable we know they lie they cheat they steal, they pose a threat to national security and our economy and flood our country with terrible fentanyl impacted literally every single community across america we cannot sit back do nothing, while we have -- biden in the white house fell on backs of states to take steps put preventive measures in place to keep china from continuing to infiltrate we knew looking toing do no good when they got here we were first state in the country, to kick china off our farmland we made them pay a fee for violating federal, our state law, to tune of 300,000 dollars, we are going to continue to take action introduced new legislation, this session, that will ban them from purchasing land that is critical infrastructure that will ban our cities he

congress knew, put a call to constitute it because the fbi had the roster of the communist party. so they knew who was in it. all the people who were components of the hollywood 10 were all currently in the party as of 1947 or had been in the party and later resigned. so they could easily spring on them the question, are you now or have you ever been, when they knew the question in advance. by 1952 most of the people who had been prosecuted or persecuted were either unemployed in new york city, mexico, some had gone to london to find work to survive. but they were not working in the hollywood film industry. charlie chaplin was still working on his own picture and they had not been able to touch him politically because they had the roster and knew he had never been a member of the communist party and was not in fact a communist. that said, they still regarded him as a threat to the republic so in 1952 he applied for a reentry permit because he was not a citizen, he was a resident alien. whenever he left the country he had to apply for reentry permits. he was given the reentry permit

from philadelphia with the details and jeff, this is also putting more pressure on the chinese communist partyte that industry as well. >> reporter: you are absolutely right, maria. yeah, the chinese now do dominate the industry and the president wants to turn that around. i'm at the philadelphia shipyard this morning, this is the epicenter of shipbuilding in the u.s., more ships built in philadelphia than anywhere else. you don't get to see it much these days, take a look. you see the hull of a ship over there being constructed, this is where they put them all together. most of it goes on in china right now. take a look at the numbers. china last year built 32.9 million-ton of ships, more than half of all the ships built in the world, the u.s., 15th on the list. america used to be the leader in shipbuilding. the president as he said in his speech wants to turn it all around. >> we used to make so many ships. we don't make them anymore very much. but we're going to make them very fast, very soon. it will have a huge impact. to further enhance our national security. >> reporter: the president i

steve, a key platform for the chinese communist party to respond to those tariffs by the trump administration message in beijing? if you look at the chinese economy, the once mighty chinese economy has huge problems. ongoing property crisis, youth unemployment, local government debt and consumer confidence, not enough confidence from ordinary chinese families. they are saving too much and not spending enough. then there are the bright sides of the chinese economy. electric vehicles, solar panels, the new tech companies like tiktok. they are all export driven. so along comes the trump administration and it works tariffs on china and chinese goods. china then sticks tariffs on us goods and a trade war is not what beijing needs at this point because it is harming the bright parts of an economy which has some big challenges at the moment. nevertheless, china's premier is predicting a 5% level of growth this year. some might say that is optimistic, but they think they can achieve it. in that report, and we all watched it like looking at the tea leaves, the word consumption was mentioned 31 times t

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and now when the communist party assume power in 1947, our space with a similar daunting task of trying to govern china. and obviously the soviet union and china off our largest in syria. but the situations are no less precarious today for a number of reasons. syria is in the mid place of a huge tr. ready and among geostrategic issues, russia, israel, turkey, east, and west iran terrorism. it is a mess, rebuilding it, trying to bring back the people so that they are one after the higher as of the side is going to be usually difficult. there are bands of unemployed former soldiers, barbara baptists, who are going to cause trouble. and so the work is cut out for them. okay, well the, obviously the 1st step for one of the 1st steps is to get this enter in government announced and up and running that there's 2 committees obviously that we mentioned before. that will be part of that. they will be appointed by the president, and i got ahold, significant power with no external over size. is that concerning it, or how do you think it's we're going to work? i don't know, and nobody else does the

company. panama had hoped that this would counter president trump allegations, that the chinese communist party had strategic control of the world's 2nd largest waterway. instead, the us president is insisting more than ever the panama has broken the terms of the panama canal treaty. and therefore, the us has a right to take it back. china is foreign ministry. spokes person has responded with unusual speed to 9 trumps assertions and criticize in the us from pressuring panama on the front. we oppose the abusive co.

company. panama had hoped that this would counter president trump allegations, that the chinese communist party had strategic control of the world's 2nd largest waterway. instead, the us president is insisting more than ever the panama has broken the terms of the panama canal treaty. and therefore, the us has a right to take it back. the train is foreign ministry. spokes person has responded with unusual speed, denying trumps assertions, and criticizing the us from pressuring panama on the front. we oppose the abuse of collision and pressure in international economic and trade relations. elsewhere. trump's most energetic threats to date, to take back the panama canal, have not gone unnoticed in these upside and a to the visiting german president, frank walter stein meyer said that he did not share trump's vision of a new world order. while chillies president said he had called his panamanian counterpart to convey solidarity and concern, express their unwavering support for ukraine and criticized with us administration in no uncertain terms alluding to the us president signed by a warrant agains

and china is communist party gears up for an important gathering that's going to set out the government's agenda for the year ahead of the had a lot of that will stop by looking at the satellite image for south asian, that dense cloud that's being lingering across southern parts of the region has now is, is guys of clear across the melodies and shoreline and southern parts of india. so settled weather with the sunshine expected here. it's been quite to across the north as well, with the few suspicions and splashes of rain. the northern parts of pakistan and india, it is set to heat up. however, across the west coast with men by seeing the temperature one above the average. not exceptional, but still significant. now exceptionally nice. the weather is working its way across a stage, and you can see that weather front bringing another wintery mix across the korean peninsula, on woods to central parts of japan. so horseshoe and hook, idaho is seen that wintery weather develop over the next few days. gonna try a weather front that's bringing some heavy, a bus rain to the likes of tie one to s

so i head on, i'll just say this news on china is communist party gears up for important gathering is gonna set out the government's agenda for the year. ahead find out why the us is reported to be ending all offensive cyber operations against russia, china and sports in too deep. it all goes wrong for those golf are in florida. that's coming up loose on the in depth analysis of the days headlines is leveled on this ami capable of keeping the peace both internally and externally informed opinion. the united states investing in the redevelopment of jobs, i think could be a great idea. but again, if you propose to remove the people who actually live critical debate is the freezing of us a id in line with these goals inside story on out to 0. examining the impact of today's headlines, the russians we are on the actual weight and that will be launch the in the agent setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions set very on for them in the studies because of that. and this is the variance of those latest international filmmakers and world class. this is an opportunity to consider what a co

the, china's communist party officials gather and beijing will tell you about the priorities they are setting out for this year. the there for much of your, the change to what could be described as spring light conditions. this happened well, fairly quick now around the edge of mislead is rather on the clarity windy in west side. but even here it's mild, for example, terms and the teens for england and so on and. and there's winning the cost blowing . cheryl is up through wells. no amount of western scuffled, i need to know why. obviously we will focus on spain and portugal in a minute. but as the reading just interested in the phone with charles in mild weather for western france and england, it still will be coming will. but in places that were only last week or by sub 0, however, that change has happened is probably sustainable. this is also happening is also sustainable. this is where the weather is not buried. it's cold funding already in spain. aleck, system, running it on friday was when the wet weather through sucking ports, cut up through the boulder with spain his lot into c

also a head the south. china is communist party gears up for unimportant gathering that's going to set out the government's agenda for the year ahead of time. how much was schools and manchester united manager, reuben and morrison says he's not naive. he's comments came off the united way or not because of the essay concept by the how much i was calling on israel to return to the table for adults on a 2nd phase. of guys, a society allows agreed in january, it's really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is refusing to enter into discussions . instead, he wants an extension of phase one. the 2nd stage would see final exchange of captives on present has a complete withdrawal of israeli forces and the establishment of a permanent seas. 5 israel as not blocking all food fuel and life saving maximum from entering gaza. palestinian said they were afraid of going hungry, and the possibility of a return to war is the marks of fasting month of ramadan, or hunting mach most joining us live next from gaza. city, more palestinians desk. i believe, honey, as the fate of the seas fargo is more on saxo

the still ahead on the al jazeera news, our china is communist party officials gather in beijing. will tell you about the priorities they are setting out for this year. us, my administration will be reclaiming the panama canal. and we've already started doing a waterway at the heart of her rapidly deteriorating relationship between the united states and one of his closest regional allies. coming up and sports football team, taking part in this year is feedstock club. the world club are set to share a record price that's coming up. which of the maybe not surprisingly, the assessment of spring in the through much of the european planning. this is sunshine ever increasingly.

kim, you think this is an improvement but i have to say are we comfortable with chinese, rich communist party way into the united states? >> a lot of people feel that way. embracing american opportunity and the american dream contributing to the country, this is a cash transaction. on the other hand i heard a couple people say we had 8 million people come in, many on public assistance. this is a more rational way to do it. there will be a lot of debate about this and it will be hard to remove it from the broader debate about our messy immigration system the past four years. paul: all right. you don't think this will make a big difference to the deficit, notwithstanding howard lutnick's claim that will bring in trillions? >> it will not make a substantial difference to the debt. it's like elon musk and doge, what he's doing is marginal. they have to address entitlements to get the debt reduced. interesting idea but it is not really the biggest problem on the table. with immigration reform in congress. and in some of these lower wage where there's a desperate wage. allysia: are most successful

and he summoned all of the leaders of various communist parties which had been meeting in moscow at the time to come back to the kremlin in the middle of the night because he wanted to tell them his view of stalin. and his view of stalin was very negative. but because he had ruled for 29 years, he was a legend, if you spoke one word against stalin you could be killed. and what khrushchev did was in this one speech destroyed the myth, the legend, the fears that surrounded the russian people when they thought about stalin. khrushchev called stalin a murderer because of what he did during world war ii. he would point out the thousands and thousands of people during the 1930's that stalin sent off to siberia. and khrushchev wanted a different kind of russia. a different russia and he began to release people from siberia, he loosened opportunities to write and to speak and he opened the gates of the kremlin to an influx of western businessmen and scholars and journalists. it was in that opening that i slipped through and a lot of other reporters slipped through. it was an incredibly exciting

his resume includes an opposition to resolution condemning china's communist party from misleading the world on covid. rick, what does this tell you about the future of the democratic party? >> i think you have to be careful here, i really do. you have three white people discussing the experiences of this new executive director at the dnc. none of us have been in his shoes. i think all of us would probably agree the black experience in america has not been all that great. so, i am far less offended by some of the things he's done historically then maybe some others are. >> sandra: daniel, perhaps democrats can listen to the message that the black voters, hispanic voters, and beyond sat in the last election. final thought. american voters and my organization started because of the coal miners in west virginia and rule energy voters. they voted for bill clinton in the day and they voted for barack obama and al donald trump. they are politics have not changed but the leaders who represent their party changed her dramatically and if those leaders want those voters back, of those rule ameri

. >> china announces decreasing by 72% totaling to a $45 billion the communist party reportedly building to rival the biggest chip at america's fleet president trump announced the creation of shipbuilding to bring commercial military building back to the united states. watch this. >> to the booster defense industrial base, we will also resurrect the american shipbuilding industry including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the white house and offer special tax incentives to bring the industry home to america where it belongs we used to make so many ships. >> i know you're skeptical about china's building the aircraft. you are not buying are you? >> we seeing images and those images tell us there are certain parts of china put together but is not clear it'll be the fourth aircraft carrier. eventually they will build what they will call the type 0 four but at this point we have to be cautious. we know china eventually will build the fourth aircraft carrier and the other thing the seven-point to percent budget increase which cou

china and moving on several directions whether trade or other issues trying to push back on the communist party great mysteries of the last four years is why joe biden did not do more to confront china he did keep certain tariffs in place which was certainly helpful but otherwise i think he bowed to china at every opportunity and reliving with the outcome of that. i do think some of the ambition of ending the war and partnering with ukraine in developing minerals and so forth is partly to undermine the fact that china has a grip on those incredibly important ingredients and important to any country that is going electric. remember the biden white house pushed the united states far down the path of ev another electric of our economy. and yet china holds a grip stranglehold on many of the materials and products that we need to accomplish that. as a real handout to china and one of the reasons the possible deal with ukraine makes sense is it relieves america dependence on china. what could be more important. maria: that is true, michael pillsbury is with us, good to see you, your reaction? >> i al

the chinese communist party officials and the willingness to replace usaid and these are just the instances. even critics acknowledged the value of targeted programming. usaid is fully emerged into the state department, what specific authorities zero needs to effectively implement usaid programs? >> as quick as i can people authorize them to get back into the field. i don't know if they have the bandwidth for expertise and capability. the people down the ground with usaid experts in their field to move the agenda forward, i would like be safer, stronger, more prosperous? encounters china and if we are not china will be. >> i'm glad secretary rubio waivers. i'm also hearing concerns, regarding the lack of clarity the challenges the program we started. as people out usaid. and what happened and what's been exposed was that and like i said, all the programs are good and not all bad. implement them as quickly as we can so we do not see that, china, russia the. >> what reforms can be implanted? the short programming aligns with the national interest? >> transparency is probably the most importan

tough penalties against vessels built according to the plans, policies and actions of the chinese communist party america's shipbuilding capacity and work force. unions behind him and, you know what in the democrats are behind him too. i talked to chris delose owe, a pennsylvania congressman, former navy vet, he says he supports anything the president wants to build shipbuilding. >> american shipbuilding, we've got to do it. i think there's bipartisan interest in the congress in us making more ships. we know that requires action on getting work force trained and ready, some nees -- incentives for american companies. >> reporter: you know, not too many things that have bipartisan support these days, mr. varney, but i'm always pretty supportive of anything that gets everybody on the same page. stuart: jeff flock does it again. thanks very much, jeff. see you later. jason chaffetz with me. would it be true to say that to make all the changes the president wants to make like abolishing if education department, he's got of to have legislation? and if he's got of to have legislation, he needs a tight-k

when the chinese communist party pouts and doesn't pick up the red phones when we call them. i mean, those conversations are how you de-escalate dangerous situations. i've already said, i think putin is a thug and a tyrant. that being said, we do need to have a working relationship with any nuclear power if we want to keep this world as safe and secure as we need it to be. >> let's talk about the tariffs. how concerned are you that the u.s. is entering a trade war that's going to hurt the economic strength of american families more than help them, because places like target are already talking about raising prices at produce. and it doesn't appear that these that this is just brinksmanship, that president trump is just threatening this or imposing this for short term. it does. it does seem as though he believes in tariffs as a long term policy. >> well, i'm not the world's biggest fan of tariffs as a permanent economic condition. that being said, i really am okay with their use as a tool, as a piece of leverage. i think it's really hard to say exactly what the president's mot

i would virtually guarantee you that not just the kremlin, but also the chinese communist party, therump meme coin. they all now have a stake in donald trump's presidency. >> and certainly financial transparency is a question that all of us have been asking about the president since 2015, when he first launched his campaign. yet to see the tax returns. but certainly you bring up another key point there, democratic congressman jake klaus of massachusetts. thank you for joining us. we'll keep you at the table as we read from our viewers. why are they awake? because earlier in the show, we asked them. paula says she's up early to fight back against inflation. she's checking on her chickens to get her own eggs instead of buying them at the store. so people are just creating their own chicken coops now, todd writes. it's 2 a.m. and my wife's rescue cat is tearing up the house. not my idea of fun. yikes. do you have a cat? >> i have three little kids, so i'm up this early as a matter of course. >> they're tearing up the house on their own and julie sent us an email. she says, my toddlers n

this is the chinese communist party that wants to steal our ip and our information, and get into ource americans. you've got to be very careful here with deep sea and what they're doing. >> yeah. no. and i appreciate you kind of coming on to talk about it. we hope to elaborate more in a future time. congressman josh gottheimer, thanks for the time today. appreciate it. great to see you. you too. and that's it for the exchange. i'll join brian sullivan for power lunch right sullivan for power lunch right on the other side of this only the servicenow platform connects every corner of your business, putting ai to work for people. - hr? - yeah. - it? - yeah. - r&d? - yup. omg? uh... oh, i see. uh... yeah. that's the department i work in. alright, enough of that. a beast. >> lurks between the numbers. some watch from the safety of the sidelines, but others saddle up and ride that one ton rowdy ribeye for all he's got. if that's you, join us on that's you, join us on tastytrade. named best (♪♪) car, this isn't the way home. that's right james, it isn't. car, where are we going? we're here.

corrupted election of october where the legitimate president ÃÃhas been replaced by Ãthat the chinese communist partyken over the port in georgia on the black city. simultaneously, the georgian dream dictatorship has reached out to work closely with toronto, at the same time as to ron has sent assessments to murder donald trump. thank goodness we have good people like our congressional honest ted yoho here. ted, delivery mechanisms co-opted by enemies of the united states, fortunately president trump has deported at elise stefanik, who will stand firm for america first. many of the nonprofits doing the bidding of dictators are being supported, what can we do to ensure indeed these agencies are working, the people we are trying to help and not prop up dictators or support terrorists. >> i think the biggest thing is oversight. need to follow up on the oversight. we hear every year how many erroneous spending programs there are, how money is being wasted. we hear the reports but when i was in congress i didn't see an act. i go back to the purity of purpose and what's the mission. we have to stay within

where the legitimate president has been replaced, which as you identified indeed the chinese communist party has taken over the port in georgia and simultaneously the georgian dictatorship has reached out to work closely with tehran at the same time as tehran has sent assassins to murder donald trump. with that in mind, thank goodness we have good people like our congressional alumnus ted yoho here. delivery mechanisms for eight have been co-opted by enemies of the united states. fortunately, president trump has appointed an ambassador who will stand firm for america first. many of the nonprofits doing the bidding of dictators are being supported. what can we do to ensure that these agencies are working for the people we are trying to help and not prop up dictators or support terrorists? >> the biggest thing is oversight and we need to follow-up on oversight. be here every year how many erroneous spending programs there are an how money is being wasted, but i was in congress i did not see us acting. it was hard to get everybody to act and that is where i go back to purity of purpose and miss

secretary of the navy, biggest challenge facing our military and the challenge of the chinese communist party is on pace to have a 400 ship navy this year and 120 more ships compared to our very weak that's going to define the tenure of your time as secretary whether it is successful and start to address this challenge. fortunately as you are seeing in this hearing, you will have very strong bipartisan support and get a look under the hood. let me ask this one question, one of the things that hasn't come up yet is the ability to work with our allies to make use of their ship building capacity and potential investments. president trump has expressed interest in that kind of idea. do you have any thoughts on passed it into law. >> the ranking member mentioned marine corps force design. that is an know innovative approach and some of us believe there has been too much cut out of the marine corps. can you work with me and this committee to make sure we have a proper balance on innovation with the marine corps but not getting rid of marine corps combat capability. and the marines looked at a udp p

fund, foreign assistance programs have helped ngos spotlight human rights abuses by the chinese communist party provide insights into china's opaque economy and provide partner nations with economic alternatives to china's road and you expect or are we continuing those efforts? >> thankk you for the question senator. i look forward if confirmed to looking under the hood ins tes of what is going on with the 90 day pause. i don't think it has concluded yet but to the extent that 8 is going to be flowing towards efforts to counter the tiprc, from the president's statement, he's been clear about the challenge to the united states and its interests. he views china as a strategic competitor a to the united states, he talks about them in terms of being an adversary as much ashe vigorously pursuing their own interests and that is at our expense. i think i don't want to presume what actions the president will take or the secretary will take but i don't think his past statements on china should because for concern in terms of programs being undertaken at usaid. >> i disagree with senator coons and shahee

i want to do, which is bring taiwan back under the control of the chinese communist party.erritorially ambitious. we know better than that. it never works. appeasement doesn't work. i thought it was fascinating that a lot of this discussion 2 or 3 weeks ago about backing away from ukraine took place in munich. does that ring any bells in munich? the other reason to call that this is really bad is that it undermines our relationship with our allies, our allies are our asymmetric advantage in the world. china has customers. we have allies, russia has north korea. and, you know, 1 or 2 other vassal states. but we have allies all across the world. and this administration seems intent on poking the eyes of our allies, whether it's the europeans talking about a significant tariff tomorrow on canada, canada, what what have they done? and they've been our staunchest ally. and so the two pieces put together emboldening the dictators and alienating the allies. that's what i meant when i said this would be the biggest geopolitical mistake that this country could possibly make. >> what

communist party paper, had said that these would include both tariff and non-tariff measures.tural purchases. so china is. still a major destination for us. >> farm goods. >> it purchases nearly $30 billion of farm goods. that was in 2024. it's also a big buyer, of course, specifically of grains. so soybeans, corn as well as sorghum. and this despite the fact that since 2018, during president trump's first trade war, the chinese have been diversifying away from the us when it. >> comes to their. >> agricultural products. we saw at that time that the chinese had curtailed. their u.s. agricultural purchases as a way to retaliate against the us. >> and a lot of. >> farmers were badly hurt. on the chinese side, you were talking about retail. >> we spoke in the. >> past couple of days to some manufacturers here, specifically ones who. supply to the us, and they told us they are feeling numb. and in fact, the tactic at this point is just to push as much of. >> the. >> cost of. >> these tariffs. >> onto their u.s. partners. >> as well as. >> onto us consumers. guys. >> appreciate tha

but to emphasize, all companies in china are required by chinese law to give the communist chinese party access to all their information upon request. in fact, in 20 -- in august of 2017, homeland security investigations issued an intelligence bulletin warning that d.g.i. was providing critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the china government. today, lowest price, technically acceptable doesn't account for security requirements. my bill would require an evaluation of potential national security concerns associated with the lpta f.a.r. standard. instead of looking at the initial price tag and procuring the cheapest product or service, it's vitally important that the united states government understand the national security implications of -- implications associated with its federal procurement policies. i want to thank the ranking member, mr. connolly, for co-leading this bipartisan initiative with me. i urge my colleagues to support this commonsense piece of legislation, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields bac

have to increase our military spending in order to to confront that threat, which is the communist chinese party. uh, and then, you know, i expect that, uh, he's going to talk about a whole range of issues, uh, and, and what he's done in the first two, uh, you know, 100 days. he's also going to talk about all the cost cutting that's coming from doge. i can tell you, man, there is a lot of stuff that's surprising to me is that we're we're paying. who? what? uh, and that's the really surprising the american people. all of that has to stop this ideological spending that we're doing here, not only here in the united states, but across the world. that has to stop. uh, and then, you know, the big changes that he's going to do at, uh, at dod, uh, with our new secretary of defense. and how are we going to be spending our money much more wisely, uh, efficiently and quicker, so that we can get our defenses up to where they should be? because we do have a a pacing threat in, uh, in communist china. >> all right. congressman carlos gimenez, thanks for your time. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> the $64,

through the counterflnce fund, e helped ngo's spotlight human rights abuses by the chinese communist party, provide insights into china's opaque economy, and provide partner nations with economic alternatives to china's belt and road. mr. rigas, do you expect or are we continuing those efforts? mr. rigas: i look forward, if confirmed, to looking under the hood in terms of what's going on with up. i believe it is a 90 day pause. i don't think it is completed yet. to the extent that aid is going to be flowing towards efforts to counter the prc and counter the belt and road initiative, i think from the president's statements, he has been very clear about the challenges. i think he views china as a strategic competitor to the united states. the way he talks about them -- i don't think he talks about them being an adversary as much as they were vigorously supporting their own interests and that is almost always at our expense. i don't want to presume what actions the president will take or the secretary will take. i don't think his past statements on china should be cost for concern in terms of

in other words, stop the steal that benefits the communist party of china. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. brooks. -- ms. alsobrooks. and it is unfolding in real time with real-life impact on our veterans. not only is he firing veterans 2400 already terminated our veterans come one-third of them, but across agencies in the united states government where 30,000 members of the federal workforce have been indiscriminately terminated. 30% of them are veterans as well. almost 50% of everybody in the department of defense who has been fired, they are veterans. and they may be probationary employees promoted to a position where they are in probationary status because they've done such a great job, they are being fired, younger members of the federal workforce. they are there for up to two years. the future of our civil service, their fired. and so many of them are veterans who have worn the uniform, served and sacrificed, and want to continue to benefit the count

it's no wonder the chinese communist party hates cryptoin general and defy in particular. china has already banned crypto within its borders. central governments hate that and of course the chinese government is one of the most dystopian, authoritarian regimes in the world. and so they've made cryptocurrency transactions he will legal because they view that's transactions, they rightly view those transactions as threats to their authoritarian power. so, yes, every time we create a new oco system use -- ecosystem using something like defi, that's a ecosystem that china abuses to threat. that's why we must make sure americans have access to this technology. we should make sure it thrives right here in the united states. there's been a lot of talk on both sides of the aisle about supporting cryptocurrency. we now have an opportunity to deliver results for the american people. earlier this afternoon we cast the initial vote on moving to proceed to the cra to repeal this rule, and i have to say i was incredibly heartened that 70 senators voted together in support of my legislat

when it came to enforcement, we allowed the communist chinese party to expand its global economic presence and promote digital trade policies that starkly contrast to our american values. we're all familiar with the digital silk road and other initiatives they put in, put in place in this space. moreover, we've allowed and sometimes even encouraged the implementation of digital services taxes or dsts and other taxes or regulatory frameworks that unfairly targeted us businesses. i commend president trump for signing an executive order recently. to directly address the imposition of dsts and defend us businesses and workers, that is just the beginning, however, and we in congress need to find ways to better support our digital trade sector and defend against many of the increasing threats being made to stifle us economic growth, mr. mchale. again, appreciated your comments in your opening statement. as we look at how do we focus on winning the strategic competition against the ccp, which has to be a priority. i serve on our select committee on china, which is a bipartisan group focused on ho

he was an anti-putin, anti-communist, ronald reagan like conservative not all that long ago. and now donald trump has pulled the partymostly his way. and those who don't like and are worried actually about the policy on ukraine tend to keep quiet about it because they don't want comfortable them over. and yeah. >> there's elon musk, the first buddy or whatever. exactly. his title is the guy who is helping to run the, uh, reduction in the size of the workforce. kasie hunt, uh, he, uh, they're enjoying his power, quite frankly, his power, which mostly comes from the proximity he has to president trump. >> indeed. and i will say i had at least one person raise the question of whether he was going to be on the floor of the chamber with the cabinet secretaries, which would have been unprecedented. he is going to be up in that box with the other members that were other people who were invited with the white house, as opposed to being someone who actually has been formally invested with power by the united states congress. so at least that distinction stands. one of the interesting things we'll see tonight, too, are there g

communist. >> but that does kind of put. >> them on the right wing, closer to being pro. >> fascist, which is. >> what we're seeing now. >> and that is where the. >> republican party is liningbit of continuity. >> is we're against. >> whatever the president. >> of. >> the opposite party. >> is for. right? >> and so. >> when president biden was in office, i heard a. >> lot of people, including at the heritage. >> foundation. >> saying, this is not. >> a plan. ukraine needs more weapons. >> ukraine needs to win faster. >> and harder, right? >> right. because biden. was being too cautious. and then the third thing is the point of. >> continuity is lindsey graham himself. >> you know, he. >> loves regime change. >> yes, he loved. >> it in iraq. >> he supported all the color revolutions. and i think to regime change, lindsey, every you know. >> when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. >> everything looks like a nail. julia luce and rick. >> stengel, thank you guys for starting us off. i really appreciate it. coming up, the fate of journalism. >> in this unprecedented time. >> don't go anywhere, folks. >> used car shopping. >> two rows, two dogs. i'm sold. >> oh, whoa,

and yet you clearly developed a consciousness that was deeply rebellious toward the communist party andrunning your country. um... well, i would doubt that. yeah. of the chinese state? well, then my dream, badiucao, as the artist showers around too. some sunny spells to the north. north. north and west too. bye for now. britain and france propose a month long ceaserfire