dan hoffman for analysis. good morning to you. nd forecast the fallout, dan? >> well, you know, i think both the united states and china have kind of backed themselves into a corner here a little bit. really the publicity of this trip has played a major role. if speaker pelosi has simply departed for taiwan without any public discussion beforehand we might have avoided all of this. right now china is escalating with very dangerous rhetoric and military drills around taiwan. if the visit had not gone on as planned, then we would have allowed china further to diplomatically isolate taiwan and there would have been a severe hift to u.s. credibility in the region and beyond. it is time now for -- i think it is key for our intelligence community to provide the administration with warning of whatever policy measures the chinese plan on implementing. i'm sure there are back channel discussions now between united states senior officials and chinese counterparts. >> bill: i'll read a tweet from mike pompeo. let me be clear china under the r

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chief of station dan hoffman fox news contributor. it is interesting.k about. coming up soon is this big international meeting where the two leaders, biden and xi, will meet. and you wonder what could happen between now and then especially as xi fights for a third political term? >> i think part of what we're seeing right now is to set the stage for that meeting between president biden and xi in november. what china is trying to do with regard to taiwan is isolate taiwan diplomatically. they've been trying to do that for years by denying taiwan any sort of recognition and trying to induce other nations around the world to avoid economic and strategic ties with taiwan. that message that china is delivering an aggressive response to a delegation of peace is one designed not only for the united states but for the region as well. china wants to make it clear there is a major price to be paid for any commercial or strategic links with taiwan. >> bill: markey leads this groou. it happens all the time. it is not announced. it just happens. speaker pelosi's vis

this is a word that dan hoffman uses. we have ungoverned space.of al qaeda, he had a biological weapons laboratory in afghanistan prior to the u.s. invasion. you sending people out to find lethal weapons around the world and develop them in this bio lab that was deconstructed when the united states came in. but now we are not there. i'm glad we are not there but the way we got out is a tragedy. because i echo what everybody is saying. it's a great show of force strength are still able to take out our enemies even not having our own boots on the ground. it's wonderful to hear but it begs a lot more question what if al qaeda was still there. the reality is they may not have been very bad but they sure of felt more comfortable coming back now. the cia said they've been watching him for months and that he would like to spend long periods of time out of this balcony. it's known that he was there and now you have this state of lawlessness and what are we going to do? we see what's happening here domestically. where i allowing lawlessness in our own comm

former massachussetts senator scott brown with contributor and former station cia station chief dan hoffman. thank you very much. i can believe i have to open a segment for you two guys talking about how china is screaming at us and we are running away like scared rabbits with conflicting messages out of the witt which says we don't support taiwan independence while nancy pelosi is going over there hugging them. that alone scott i think would send a message that the american government is itself divided on this issue what's your take on all of this? >> first i've been to china and taiwan 2-3 times many taiwan is an amazing country. they're a democracy, supply a lot of chips we need for military and other needs and china are a big bully. you get off the train it smells like an ashtry, biggest polluters, an they have a 600 year plan and we don't have a plan. the splintered nature of the biden policy you see in ukraine taiwan and the united states. i thought nancy pelosi did the right thing. my only regret is she didn't include more republicans. she has the right to travel. she has the right t

. >> bret: that's exactly right, let's bring in former cia official dan hoffman, fox news contributor. dan i just want to kind of wrap this up and that we have called this a major win, this was a cia operation and we don't know what we don't know obviously, but your thoughts on this day. >> well, i think obviously be high on the fact that we have taken the al qaeda leader off of the battlefield and that is a great success tactically and strategically it's also important to reflect on the fact that we retain a fine fix and finish capability. and it is also important to note too that we had to have collected intelligence reflections that we actually got zawahiri based on the most sensitive intelligence, so it's important that we retain the capability and i think that it is also key for us to keep in mind as many have that the fight continues. we have lots of operatives and irises in afghanistan a petri dish for growing threats beyond's and while we can celebrate today, this very important victory against a key terrorist target we have to keep our eyes on the threats that remain in afgha

dan hoffman, join the conversation. you lived in moscow. in russia. and it's pretty farcical but a necessary precursor before any sort of swap could take place. the russians need to keep up this idea that there's some reciprocity here, you know, victor is the merchant of death. he supplied weapons knowing far well that they would commit atrocities against u.s. officials and civilians. there's actually no reciprocity but that's what vladimir putin wants his own population and the world to believe. that's why she was convicted. it remains to be seen whether her lawyer will appeal this. but it's the necessary step before this sort of asymmetric dirty deal gets done in order to save the lives of our citizens. >> bill: we'll see when that happens. dana, go ahead and jump in. >> dana: i just have a question. dan, what happened to the possible prisoner swap idea? >> it's still absolutely in play but before it can happen, the russian government is going to demand that britney griner be convicted so that they can say that she was guilty of this alle

with me now, dan hoffman. we have seen provocation from china long before this visit. it seems to be more emboldened each time. i can remember when there was -- felt like clear surveillance. you had the fighter jets, you had the supplies, the whole thing. feels like all of these dress rehearsals for an invasion. >> this was a congressional delegation. it's not as if speaker pelosi was bringing with her a load of military support, fighters, bombers and nuclear weapons. china responded with this asymmetric response, dialling up the rhetoric and following that up with incurs into taiwan's airspace and now with the military drills will they will embargo the island. the biden administration does need to step up. the president should emphasize, this was a delegation of peace that the united states continues to support the one china policy, but that we will stand up and defend and assist taiwan in the event that china seeks to change or seeks to impose its will on taiwan by force. we should be saying those things and we should be sending more congressional delegations back th

dan hoffman joins us, cia station chief in moscow.ou are vladimir putin you want to get to the bottom of this, but it might be the first incident of someone trying to get to those in russia who support and lead this effort. and aggressively so. what are we to make at this? >> well, today the russian security services announced that the perpetrator of this crime was a ukrainian mother of a 12-year-old who reportedly lived in the same building as her. and traveled to russia and her mini cooper and then plotted this murder hit job. i don't think that anybody believes that that is actually the truth. i'm very skeptical of the lightning fast forensics and the fact that it has pointed to ukraine as enemies of being responsible for this. and let's not forget that the target was alexander dugan. she drove -- his daughter drove his land cruiser. so it reminds me of that scene in the "godfather" where his wife is killed in italy instead of michael corleone a mistake and hit job that went wrong. i think this will be one that the intelligence com

good to have you on today, michael pillsbury and dan hoffman and smitty. >> sandra: chuck grassley joining us at 1:00. >> bill: we'll see you then. here is harris. >> breaking news now with house speaker nancy pelosi on the ground in taiwan. china has been threatening the united states for days not to go there and one chinese state media commentator with these chilling words, pray for pelosi. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". nancy pelosi becomes the highest ranking united states official to visit taiwan in a quarter century. the last speaker of the house to go there was newt gingrich in 1997. china is angry over the support for the nation of taiwan with threats of major military response and reports of chinese fighter jets flying and armed tanks at the ready. both taipei and washington, d.c. are bracing for any reaction. at first they wanted to see if there would be any harassment of pelosi's plane on the way in. next we'll see and watch for both those governments to see if anybody will want to harass her plane on the outside or rather on the way out. by anybody i m

massachusetts senator scott brown , along with fox news c contributor and former cia station chief dan hoffman. gentlemen, thank you very much. i cannot believe that i have tot like open a segment for you twom guys talking about how china is screaming at us and we're like running away like scared rabbits. we've got conflicting messages coming out of the whiteed house which said we don't support taiwan independence, which was, by the way, a horrible thing to say. well, nancy pelosi is going p him thathugging alone. would send ak a message that the american government is itself dividedment on this issue. what's's your take? on all of this? well, i've been to china.es i've been to taiwan two or three times. taiwan is an amazing country. they are a democracy supply a lot of our ships that we needy for our military and other means. and china, they're a a a big bully. if you get off the plane and it smells like an ashtray, the biggest polluters and they have a three to six to nine hundred year plan and we don't have a plan. you see that the fractured and splintered nature with the biden foreign poli

how close are we to conflict with china, let's ask station chief dan hoffman, dan, good to see you hereiece outlining it could be much sooner than peep are prepared for. what happens in the far east and what happens here? >> yeah, listen, taiwan is on the geopolitical fault line, it's a flash point between chinese dictatorship and democracy and go back to the comments out in aspen from director cia burns, reuniting taiwan with the mainland by force if necessary. the military drills, the block aid, if you will, looks like a dress rehearsal for an invasion. xi jinping as we've noted throughout the program, and especially gordon lang's, they have to be on high alert for the indications and warnings that action could be imminent. >> there are some treasures on the island of taiwan that china wants and unlikely as a war of attrition like russia with ukraine where they'd bomb everything. the semiconductor makers, and they want them intact so they can use them and exploit them. how would they invade without destroying what they want to take? >> right. you know, the key for taiwan, and for the

station chief dan hoffman. why do you think they're continuing?opportunity further to try to isolate taiwan and they are trying to make a point to taiwan's allies in the region to try to induce them not to support taiwan further with economic, trade and with any sort of military assistance. they know the united states will carry on with our close coordination and collaboration with taiwan. this is a strong message to taiwan as well as to the region. >> bill: they expanded it by a day. you have to think they're practicing, right, dan? i made the point with general jack keane china hasn't been at war since 1979. they need to see if they can even communicate. >> yeah. they didn't do too well in the war against vietnam. it was 40 years ago roughly when chinese general secretary ping said that china should hide its strength and bide its time. now china's policy extraordinarily different. now with that aggressive posture in the taiwan straits, militarizing the south china sea. it is an opportunity for the u.s. intelligence community as well to collect o

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dan hoffman spent five years in moscow joins us now. gorbachev was in his 50's.ades. we saw g glasnost and perestroi. >> gorbachev will be having remembered failures of that soviet economy and corrupt political process but also having exposed the fact that they could never reform it from within. when faced with the shocks of the war in afghanistan, the chernobyl nuclear accident, president reagan stalwart opposition to soviet communism and dough mess stem opposition from boris yelled sen go on to be president. the soviet union couldn't withstand that and it collapsed. and i really think there is two legs today as we look at mikael gorbachev's life one for the west a positive one he was able to wind down the soviet evil empire without a catastrophic nuclear war. for the russians, particular lear for vladimir putin. it's that when you allow any sort of democracy and human rights to seep into that russian society, you risk tearing down the system that they seek to control for themselves. >> brian: they. i guess they wanted perpetual hell because they seem to keep su