james alba is a spokesman for unicef, the united nations into a national children's emergency fund. he's in south and guys i and told us about the situation for children that yeah, i looked at gastly is exactly that. it is a graveyard. i said that based on all the rules and everything we've heard from colleagues on the ground a couple of weeks ago. and now i'm here. our child actually believe it's worse than i imagined that as you need from us words are imagine the worst i've been in the hospital today. again, the rooms are more, i say, and children of things i haven't really seen, at least not, not she and number of children, a bus load coming down from the know children to read said medical care for 3 or 4 days that just smell of watching flash on that children with randy, this burn marks we've, we've, we've moved to barnes. this is consistent. this is in a hospital of tools. tens of thousands of people spread across these area outside the chief of waterloo, fee for food and visas. they sit in your pool, this is the response. this has meant to be a good guy because we are getting

alba in san francisco. andrea mitchell joins me from washington. rear admiral, jamestavridis, allied commander and msnbc chief international analyst, and former cia analyst, sue mi terry is with me in studio. what we're looking as as the in washington, two political ay, parties that agree on almost nothing are unid in their depictions of china as a geopolitical rival and mortal threat to middle class sy. in beijing, leaders accuse the united states of plotting to deny china's rightful place as a superpower. what can these two men actually accomplish in this kind of environment, andrea? >> they can talk. they can try to reestablish communications, certainly military-to-military communications which have not been existing because china cut them off since last september in the after math of speaker pelosi's visit then speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan. china cut off all communications between our defense and their defense, and our pentagon, our joint chief's chairmen. that had to be established. the flow of fentanyl, illegal fentanyl from china, which is a threat coming f