we spoke to ed martin, president of phillips, softly eagles, who said the us must be very careful. i support the message shut to china that we want less aggression from china. after that, i think we need to be very, very careful with the situation. i mean, you know, i, i think we've seen that china is taking advantage of the regime of their, of biden's weakness. they've been doing more exercises and more kind of military stand up. and i know i, i spoke over the weekend with a military leader active duty military leader who told me that they spent a lot of time worrying about china worrying about what could happen. so look, i, we want to protect and support our allies, but we want to be careful not to be drawn into a war, especially a war with a nuclear power by the ministrations policy seemed to be to continue to provoke other, our world powers. and to put their interests, our, the world's interests or other nation's interest above ours. and i think that's a problem. just before we go, we're going to remind you of our breaking news story. this our from the kiss on hotel which was c

earlier we spoke to ed martin who's a new york times best selling author, and he believes that the prophecies of washington i have nothing to do with the needs of the colon people. well, it's a little bit of a trick. i mean, instead of being reported in such a way, it's not really soldiers, it's a military, meaning we've expanded our military into another bureaucracy. i, you know, thousands and hundreds of thousands of workers. we're not necessarily, we're talking about, by the way, soldiers also. but it's a massive agency, a massive set of and the priorities are off look, inflation in america is running at about 10 percent. and yet, yesterday in the white house, president biden said things are going great. well, not for normal people, you know, when it's 10 percent on, especially on gas and eggs and, and bread and butter, it's a disaster. so i, the priorities are off base and in america, it's the swamp. it's the washington d. c. cabal that continues to make money to grow its business, grow what's happening? the defense contractors are making money, hand over fist and it is a problem. now aga

we heard from ed martin ahead of the u. s. conservative group phyllis that shefly eagles, who says such incoherence, could be disastrous for u. s. foreign policy. in the world's people look at the leader of america and the leader of our, our great and wonderful and strong military. and they see a guy who doesn't either know what the policy is or is being corrected by his staff . so my concern is that he's changing policy based on an interview and then changing it back a, an hour later. i think it's a disaster. his answers as you played some of the clips that are in coherent when he's being asked about his incoherence. i mean, it didn't make sense, whatever he was saying about up an inch or something. again, you talk about incoherent talking, it's 88 percent, plus month to month. every one is dealing with it. the idea that he sort of shrugged it off and said things are short, a stable, it's stable if in a way that is absolutely decimating. and i mean that term specifically decimate means and percent. it's taking 10 percent o

ed america's spirit and betrayed america's trust. yamiche: is a lot going on in pennsylvania this week. joining me me to discuss this and more jonathan martinenior political correspondent for the "new york times" and co-author of "this will not pass: trump, biden and the battle for america's future." evan perez. and yasmeen abutaleb and laura barron-lopez. yasmeen congratulations to the promotion of white house reporter. of course, we saw this primetime speech from president biden where he called out in a rare way president trump by name and republicans. what's behind behind the strategy there? and does the white house think this speech is going to make a big difference yasmeen: i think the white house thoughts it was a launch of the campaign than will start with labor day weekend and begin in earnest after that. i do think this is an effective strategy that biden is trying to draw the distinction between the maga loyalist and they said they -- that the election was rigged and those those mainstream republicans who don't adhere to that ideology. democrats have been clamoring for this for a while for the president to be much more forceful an