jason pen has hailed a close relationship between beijing and tact. ran iranian leda abraham, raise on a 3 day visit to china, where the focus on strengthening trade and economic ties. equitorial gimme is confirmed, its 1st outbreak of the mob of virus a highly contagious disease related to abolla. 9 people have died, 200 the current more than 37000 people are now known to have been killed in the earthquakes in syria and turkey. the un says it's the worst natural disaster in the region for a 100 years. tens of thousands have been evacuated from the hardest hit areas of southern turkey and had a province. the city of and takia was almost entirely flattened. the dw teams documenting events in the disaster zone and the frontier between turkey and rebel controlled areas of syria has been closed for decades, but has now been partially reopened to allow aid supplies. and to be brought in, mohammed's chattering reports from bab, our how our border crossing. this is not in a convoy crossing from turkey to syria. it's a procession of belief to you and families taking the bodies of relatives who

jason. mcgregor. conor. >> she wrote it down, turned it around. >> you can share a pen. >> number 4.hame less spent 13,000 dollars to buy the world's smallest p pomeranian. -- it's britney bitch. >> we have a tie game. marie and alley on the board, everyone has one. hole your head up high. when i ride your diamond studded horse. who once put a $100 thousand semitruck and drove it to work? who is the mother trucker? you are wrong. richard branson will be, ien i don't like trucks, i like big b butts. >> which once opened an underwater submarine themed restaurant, also served submarine sandwiches? >> how yeah doing goat? >> everyone says, the wrong answer. >> steven spielberg. >> are you colluding to tank that their game. >> we're so bad. kennedy: alley and marie are following each other. >> we're both losing. >> are all even steven. number 7. for bringing their dog to fancy restaurants and orders separate plates of fancy food for the dog to eat from? i hope someone gets this right. >> one of you got it right, you went the same again, i don't know what is going on here. >> jason in the

pen worse under this president. house speaker kevin mccarthy and the president expected to discuss the debt ceiling again this week. i spoke with the chairman of the house ways and means committee yesterday, jasonrning futures about the debate over defense spending and where to identify spending cuts. here's jason smith. watch. >> speaker mccarthy is asking to just go back to fiscal year '22 numbers. we can cut $100 billion of unobligated covid money. there is so much waste out there, maria. we don't have to look at defense. you know what? we do need to look at everything, he though, because there could be some waste in defense. we need to make sure the funding indefense is actually going to e military and our soldiers. maria: so david, how to do you see this? where would be the areas to cut back on spending in an environment where we see china rising its provocations, investing in its own military. should military spending be off the l table in terms of spending and where would you cut? >> jason's correct. there's a lot of things under military spending that really don't help the military. they're like welfare programs that they tucked into the defense because the democrats knew republicans wo