kirby: you said it at the top. they have been out there in recent days with some irresponsible rhetoric. we feel it is important for everybody in the region to understand how seriously we take our security commitments in the indo pacific. there is no reason for this to escalate. there was every reason, given our national security interest as well as the interests of our allies and partners on any given day, there is every reason for this to not escalate. and for the lines of communication to remain open between washington and beijing. reporter: does the white house currently no weather speaker pelosi is planning to go to taiwan? i realize she is not announced anything publicly. does the white house have knowledge? mr. kirby: i am not going to talk about the speakers itinerary. i just not going to do that. i want to go back to one other thing. when you talk about or you threaten these kinds of potential operations, military operations exercises and missile launches, it increases the risk of miscalculation. there cou

. >> sandra: that was this morning, john kirby, on nancy pelosi's potential visit to taiwan. china is warning the speaker not to make that trip. congressman greg stubbe of the foreign affairs committee is standing by, but a top u.s. general warning for a long-term warning of china to control the panama canal. jennifer, what are you learning about this? >> the pentagon says it's an urgent national security issue. five years ago panama under pressure from beijing quietly shifted the long-term policy of recognizing taiwan, severed ties and now only recognizes china. at the same time, a hong kong-based company bought and took control of two ports on eat end of the panama canal. america's top general who oversees u.s. southern command issued this warning two weeks ago. >> i worry about the, you know, look like civilian companies, or state-owned enterprises that could be used for dual use, and could be quickly changed over to a military capability if they needed that to. again, looks like they are investing. i look it as extracting. >> 6% of the world commerce passes through the ca

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this is what kirby had to say. our constitution bears a separation of powers. this is well known to the p r c. given our more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations, the speaker is the right to visit taiwan and a speaker the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized though that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents any change in u. s. policy. the u. s. one china policy remains. he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president she last week in which president biden made absolutely clear that the u. s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and also, and changing when it comes to its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says, china is adapting a threatening posture and his express concern about any misunderstandings as he put it that could arise out of this heightening of tension on for a short break here now to sierra, when we come back, the u. s. government promises more than a 1000000000 d

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this is what kirby had to say, or constitution beds a separation of powers. this is well known to the p r. c. given are more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations. the speaker is the right to visit taiwan and speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized though that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents any change in us policy. the u. s. one china policy remains, he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president sheet last week in which president biden made absolutely clear that the u. s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and also unchanging when it comes to its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says, china is adapting a threatening posture and he's express concern about any misunderstandings as he put it that could arise out of this heightening of tension. the head of the rounds, atomic agency says his country has the ability to produce a nuclear bomb. it doesn't plan

that's john that'sjohn kirby that's john kirby i that'sjohn kirby i want to show you the image because the family photo if i can call it that members of congress who have accompanied nancy pelosi on this particular visit, standing there, shoulder to shoulder with the president and her own team, is a picture of solidarity and support of one for the other but as i said a moment ago the flipside as it is a picture of antagonism as seen from the beijing perspective who have already called on the us ambassador to beijing, for a formal complaint about this meeting taking place. i've been speaking to lyle goldstein, he is director of asian engagement at defence priorities, and visiting professor at brown university, i wanted to find out from him what he made of this situation. i'm very concerned, we have seen some moves that are somewhat unprecedented, my own view is that this likely will not leave to war, but you know, i think it's here to say that, the us and china do seem to be on that kind of collision course, and this is kind of one step down that road, so i'm very, very concerned. and w

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kabul john kirby has addressed the possible trip of nancy to taiwan. she says this is not unprecedented. pointing out that in 1997 new english visited taiwan without any incident. even this year so members of congress have traveled to the island. john kirby says any decision is up to the speaker herself and any confirmation must come from the speaker or her staff. this is what he had to say. >> this is well known to the prc, given our more than four decades in diplomatic relations. the speaker has the right to visit taiwan and the speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. >> he emphasized that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan, this in no way represents any change in u.s. policy. the u.s. one china policy remains and this was addressed to president biden's phone call with president xi last week. the u.s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says china is adept in a threatening posture and he has expressed concern about any misunderstanding that could

john kirby, actually brought you up today your name with john kirby. here's what he said. >> michael was just on and he just suggested they are trying to placate china. >> i don't know how we could've taken that away from what i had to say? is no placating china, i was civilly stating policy. i was trying to take down the tensions not to rent them up. there is no placating, i also said if you go back to my opening statement are not to be intimidated. >> brian: mike, what you think about that you said she said? >> he has tried to reassure china i think it's a nicer word to placate. he's trying to reassure china there's no need for all this rhetoric, there's no need for all these threats. the china policy is not changing in every thing is the same. as you and i know brian, we all heard president jill biden say that we are committed to defend taiwan. he mentioned the word independence one time. so that is part about why the chinese are so confused by, and what we don't want is the chinese military action either before this the speaker gets her tomorrow ni

this is what kirby had to say. our constitution beds a separation of powers. this is well known to the p r c. given our more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations, the speaker, the right to visit taiwan and speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized so that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents any change in us policy. the u. s. one china policy remains. he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president she last week in which president biden made absolutely clear that the u. s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and also unchanging when it comes to its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says, china is adapting a threatening posture and he's express concern about any misunderstandings as he put it that could arise out of this heightening of tension. ah, until mccray, with the headlines here on al jazeera, the leader of ellicott. i'm an o hittie has been killed in a ca, d

john kirby trying to walk back the statement biden made last year to justify pulling the u.s.ch. >> president biden said what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? >> in a major way al qaeda was not playing -- let me finish. they weren't playing a major role in operations or resourcing or planning in afghanistan. we talked about the fact that al qaeda had a presence in afghanistan but small and not powerful or potent. we would still assess that to be the case. >> harris: jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst and chairman for the institute for the study of war. thank you for being in "focus." your top line thoughts when you hear admiral kirby there previously a year ago and now saying well, the numbers are small of how many terrorists al qaeda are in afghanistan. >> first of all, this is a remarkable operation that we've just seen completed by the united states and we kind of get used to expecting these operations to go as remarkably well as this one has. and that shouldn't diminish whatever the credit that's deserved for our intelligence

let's go to john kirby now. excuse me. stand by, john kirby speaking.ses an active threat to u.s. persons, interests and national security. president biden has said that we will not allow half -- afghanistan to be a safe haven for terrorists. we met that commitment, this action demonstrates without american forces on the ground in afghanistan in harm's way, we're able to identify and locate even the world's most wanted terrorists and take the action to remove him from the battlefield. that is the definition of this mission. one we talked a year ago, over the horizon counter terrorism capability. what we did this past weekend is a perfect clean example of what that capability looks like. now, on to taiwan as you have all seen the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, arrived in taiwan earlier this morning east coast time. as we have said, the speaker has the right to visit taiwan. the speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as has many members of congress over the years, including this year. this trip was the speaker's decision and

that was john kirby _ into a crisis or conflict.hn kirby they're - into a crisis or conflict. that wasjohn kirby they're speaking to the bbc a little earlier. earlier i spoke to asia security expert bonnie lin. she told me how taiwan is likely to respond to the chinese military drills. there are some of the exercise areas that are even closer than 16 km. and the real question is, if china starts entering into taiwan's airspace and waters, it's how taiwan may react. it may be from taiwan's perspective, if they do not respond, it could set a precedent for china to operate close to taiwan. but if they do respond, there is a real risk of escalation. at what point do you see the us getting involved, as well? so, i think, if china starts operating closer and closer to taiwan, i think taiwan will likely be cautious and probably not engage in significant activity to strike the chinese first or any such activities, as if china starts flying over taiwan airspace. but, as we see the two militaries start coming even closer and operating closer

kirby about this. we didn't see these explosions, like, what happened here in this moment, what was used was developed, my understanding, two hellfire missiles, missiles developed under the obama administration is my understanding. the way they do, how they come in, there are six blades set to come in that have the capacity of chopping up one individual very horribly. >> they don't explode. >> they don't explode. there is not hundreds of pounds of explosives which is an issue during the obama administration as i covered the middle east. women, children, all of these innocent children were used as human shields. this was a way to counter that, and to use this type of secret weaponry that can go in, take out a target and get out. when people don't believe the white house when they say that counterterrorism operations are still taking place, when they say that we are still watching these regions and haven't taken our eye off the ball, we have new capabilities in the u.s. that allow us to do that without b

admiral kirby, i appreciate you making time for us tonight. anma historic night. >> absolutely, rachel. good to be with you a good day forod the country. >> let me ask ayyou, in my summy there in terms of what we know about what happened, both about mr.pe zawahiri's background and how you got him is, there anything that i've left out or that i got wrong is, there anything else that you tell us about how this mission unfolded. >> i think you did aon pretty gd job rolling out the history of who this man was and what he was responsible for and how he met his end, i can tell you, there was an awful lot of work done by the counter-terrorism and the intelligencer- community to gets to this point. it was painstaking, meticulous, thoughtful work,ns and as you rightly pointed out in your opening, rachel, the president was kept informed throughout, finally made the decision in late, july 25th, specifically, and of course we executed him. and even though he had given the order on the 25th, the conditions needed to be right, and there were a lot of condit

joining us now live from the white house is john kirby. until a few months ago he was press secretary for the department of defense. now he's spokesman for president biden's national security council, also retired rear admiral in the united states navy. admiral kirby, i really appreciate you making time to be with us this evening. it's a historic night. >> absolutely, rachel. it's good to be with you. a good day for the country. >> let me ask you in my summary there in terms of what we know what happened both about mr. zawahiri's background is there anything i got wrong or anything else you can tell us how this unfolded? >> i think you did a pretty good job telling who this man was, what he was responsible for. there was a lot of work done in the intelligence community to get us to this point. it was painstaking, meticulous work. as you pointed out in your opening, rachel, the president was kept informed throughout, finally made the decision in late july, july 25th specifically. even though he'd given the order on the 25th the conditions n

so kirby is saying that basically the u. s. is not changing anything the business by this because should that happen? doesn't change anything. and china's response is the only aspect that is creating problems around this whole trip. should it take place? all right, thank you very much. movie late is from the white house, mike, hannah. he was al jazeera life from london, still ad on the program. you and chief calls for an end to nuclear weapons warning, total annihilation is only one misunderstanding away. and they took peacekeepers a cold and his tensions clarity, soviet kosovo order. ah hello, there is a store of heat once again for europe, particularly for southern areas, but we are going to see a lot of that warmth rise up heading it's way farther north. by the mid of the week, we'll see some pretty impressive temperatures across western areas of europe. now on tuesday, we've still got those high temperature warnings out across the iberian peninsula to spain and portugal. a few showers popping up here and there across spain.

we saw admiral kirby today kind of do his best to sayay there's no change. and in the one china policy, nancy pelosi may say thatt wednesday morning in taiwan, that's not enough.an you've got a kind of a paranoid view in beijing that we are up to no good and we want to blockk china, surpassing every timee i visit china, they always tell me the same thing you americansi just want to contain this. yous can't stand us to surpass you in the world. t and there's some there's some truth to that.dodo we don't want to be number one in the world. re yeah. sr and can stop acting like b bullies and stealing our stuff on a regular basis. be we used to be bothered by t. this administration doesn't seem to be joncour to be actually brought up today. actually , martha brought up your name up to it, john kirby today. 's he said. m michael pelphrey wasic just on and he suggested with somest of your answers, you're trying s to placate china. i don't know how he could have taken that away from whatke i hd to say. c therehi was no placating china.t i was simplyat stating policy

joining us now live from the white house is john kirby. until a few months ago, he was a secretary for the department of defense. now, he is spokesman for president biden's national security council. he is also a retired admiral in the united states navy. admiral kirby, really appreciate you making time to be with us this evening on this historic night. >> absolutely, rachel. good to be with you, good day for the country. >> let me ask you, in my summary there, in terms of what we know about what's happened, both about mr. zawahiri's background, and also about how you got him. is there anything that i've left out, or that i got wrong? is there anything else that you can tell us about how this mission unfolded? >> i think you did a pretty good job rolling out the history from this man, who he was, but he was responsible for, and how he met his and. i can tell you, there was an awful lot of work done by the counterterrorism and the intelligence community, to get us to this point. it was painstaking, meticulous, thoughtful work. as you rightl

kirby, it is all yours. kirby: good afternoon. today i think you were tracking the ships in odessa under the recent deal between the united nations, turkey, and ukraine welcome this important step and hope to see more ships departing in the coming days. 26,000 tons of corn. russia has effectively blocked ukraine's ports since the beginning of this. we encourage russia to meet its unimpeded exports of goods from the black see to ease the flow of goods elsewhere. national security advisor, jake selin, antony blinken, and the chairman joint chiefs of staff spoke with ukrainian counterparts for the u.s. support to ukraine as the ukrainian people continue to stand up to russia and to inform them about a new 550 million dollars security assistance package at the biden administration authorized. and they previewed the package. today's announcement will include more ammunition for the high mobility advanced rocket system. this will be the 17th time the biden administration is authorized a security systems package using presidential drawdo

john kirby joins us on the story this hour. right now election battles are underway in two of the biggest states. these are really important primaries happening today in new york and in florida. they are out voting. reporters are fanned out in each of those states. bryan llenas is here in new york city. phil keating is on board in florida this afternoon in the sunshine state. brian, what's going on in new york? >> martha, good afternoon. all eyes are on new york's we drawn 12th congressional district which pits two democratic leaders against one another and what has been a personal and nasty clash between once friends. representative carolyn maloney going against jerry nadler. now, maloney has questioned whether sadler is senile. maloney says she's the female candidate needed to protect abortion rights. nadler has called her gullible and cowardly for voting for the iraq war and patriot act. >> i'm the principled progressive. i cast hard votes, unpopular votes that have proven right like voting against the war in iraq, voting ag

ukraine said used hima rocket launchers after to attack this colony we will have to listen to john kirbythe end and what he has to say about this himself after i can share that based on intelligence we expect that russian officials are planning to falsify evidence to attribute the july 29 attack on the oleniv prison armed forces of ukraine, we expect that russian officials will try to frame the ukrainian armed forces on the eve of a potential visit of journalists and investigators to the site of the attack; in fact, we have already seen several false reports in the press from on this occasion, where they deliberately threw up evidence and we have reason to believe that russia will go so far as to create the impression that himars systems, which are armed with ukrainians, are to blame for this. ostap , on another topic, tickets to me, is trying to get two illegally imprisoned people released from russian imprisonment of americans britney greiner and pole villan today the russian minister of foreign affairs lavrov said that moscow is ready to discuss a potential exchange of prisoners what

we go to john kirby. he's briefing. listen. >> east and southeast of the island.ns that are irresponsible and add odds with our longstanding goal of maintaining stability across the taiwan strait and in the region. china has chosen to overreact and use the speaker's visit to increase military activity in an around the taiwan strait. we anticipate that china might take steps like this. in fact, i described them for you in detail the other day, monday. we also expect that these actions will continue and that the chinese will continue to react in coming days. the united states is prepared for what beijing chooses to do. we will not seek, nor do we want a cries is. at the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas and the skies of the western pacific, consistent with international law as we have nor decades supporting taiwan and defending a free and open indopacific. to that end, secretary austin today is directed that the aircraft carrier u.s.s. ronald reagan and her strike group will remain on station in the general area to monitor the situation.

john kirby speaking there are little earlier.our reporter who has been watching the latest developments for us. we've already seen the chinese react — warplanes in taiwanese airspace and now the foreign ministry has summoned the us ambassador to beijing, nicolas burns, to protest against nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. we are now hearing from officials waking up this morning. i cannot imagine they got much rest last night. one foreign minister has said the nature of speaker pelosi visit is vicious and they will continue to have a keen eye on this. they said they will not said ardently by and we have seenin said ardently by and we have seen in the last couple of hours, since her plane has landed, taiwan has confirmed they did see some military planes from china going over the taiwan strait, the body of water separating china and taiwan and also we have seen, on a diplomatic front, beijing is summoning us ambassador nicholas byrne to talk about theissue nicholas byrne to talk about the issue but they are not standing idly by and we

the white house's national security council spokesman, john kirby, is trying to de—escalate tensionsus doesn't support independence for taiwan. here he is speaking at a press briefing just a short while ago. the united states will not and does not — will not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. at the same time, we will not engage in sabre—rattling. we will continue to operate in the seas and the skies of the western pacific, as we have done for decades, and we will continue to support taiwan. our north america correspondent john sudworth says there is a lot at stake here for the biden administration. they have been warning against the wisdom of this trip for days and weeks. now that it's gone ahead, as you heard from john kirby, they're taking a more neutral tone, as you might suggest. but those concerns remain — not over the risk of invasion, most analysts believe the risk of that for now remain small — but simply because i think the american government feels it has enough on its plate, in terms of foreign policy — russia's war in t

and there's been this briefing by john kirby. she just tell us what the white house is saying about nancy pelosi trip tickets. like the fact that it's not being officially backed by the present bite. and the message is this has nothing really necessarily to do with us. nancy pelosi is, is the speaker of the house. it's a separate wing of the government and for the congress. not the executive. they have no say is a message in what policy does, but they talk about the historic or precedents because newt gingrich, as, as we will reported, did visits under when bill clinton was was president. and they said, look, this is perfectly normal. it doesn't suggest any, if it has continuity, there is a suggestion, you know, the speak of houses before and other speakers visiting, visiting now to the china does not take the, the, the symbolism in the same in the same matter. and paul, it actually because, unlike newt gingrich, when he visited bill clinton was the president, nancy pelosi as part of the same party as joe biden said, that suspici

this is what kirby had to say. a constitution beds separation of powers. this is well known to the p r . c. given are more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations. the speaker, the right to visit taiwan and speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized so that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents a change in us policy. the u. s. one china policy remains, he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president sheet last week in which president biden made absolutely clear that the u. s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and also unchanging when it comes to its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says, china is adapting a threatening posture and he's express concern about any misunderstandings as he put it that could arise out of this heightening of tension. or in other developments in the us, people displaced by floods in the state of kentucky have faced another night of heavy

john kirby made that point clear, what do you make of that messaging? >> that messaging is extraordinary week. chinese threatened the life of the president of the united states in that call and we heard threats on speaker pelosi's life. response from the united states should have been more robust and our policy, we don't support taiwan independence, taiwan already is independent and john kirby should have stated that in a different way. they are telling the chinese, go ahead and intimidate us more. >> todd: can we trust this administration to put america robust when it comes to china in light of the fact based upon media reports it appears joe biden and his family are intertwined with china and there seems to be a conflict of interest there. >> no, we can't trust president biden to put america first. todd, in that phone call with when xi jinping threatened the life of biden, he should have hung up. last week biden said he didn't think it was a good idea speaker pelosi go to taiwan, we heard china ramp up their rhetoric. biden was inviting the chinese to

the security council spokesmanjohn kirby council spokesman john kirby did his council spokesmanjohn kirby beijing a little earlier. the united states will not and does not, will not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. at the same time, we will not engage in sabre—rattling. we will continue to operate in the seas and the skies of the western pacific as we have done for decades. we will continue to support taiwan. (vt) andrew gilholm is director of analysis for china and north asia at control risks and hejoins me now from seoul. thank you very much indeed for joining us, andrew. we have got the pictures, we are hearing nancy pelosi in the heart of the parliament building, talking about the reason she brought the delegation. how much more antagonistic can get for beijing?— for bei'ing? this visit has reall for beijing? this visit has really become _ for beijing? this visit has really become a - for beijing? this visit has really become a lot - for beijing? this visit has really become a lot morej really become a lot more dramatic and a signi

when you talk about that in fighting, we have just heard from john kirby, the us whitehouse national security spokesperson. he's just stated in his briefing there, hello, see, quote, speak for herself. when talking about supporting taiwanese independence, you have been speaking about how this corresponds to the fact that the u. s. at his, with a one china policy. but what i'd like to ask you is that biden has said that he supports palo sees actions, apparently regarding independence of ty, one as well. so why do we hear such opposite us statements about ty, pay and see? that's the thing i think we've seen so many contradictory statements, whether it's from biden, whether it's from the pentagon, which has said that this is not a good idea. even different political actors in the united states. donald trump is against this trip. congressional republicans are largely in favor of it. some congressional democrats are with her on her trip to ty, pay you, as you said, john kirby is giving a contradictory statements. although joe biden has come out and said that militarily the united states w

. >> john kirby is the white house national security council strategic coordination communicated. -- communicator. -- their aim on -- kabul, afghanistan. he also talked about how speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan, saying president biden respects her decision to travel there. >> >> good afternoon everybody. so as the president spoke to yesterday, the united states under undertook a counterterrorism operation in kabul afghanistan on saturday at his direction, the u.s. intelligence targeted and killed ayman al zawahiri. al qaeda's leader. we know you have questions about this today and so we wanted to make sure that we had john kirby come back. he's going to talk about the specifics of that operation and the extension also of truce in yemen, which is incredibly important and any other foreign policy news of the day. with that, i give you john kirby, national national security council coordinator for strategic communications. >> it is clearly noted, if you've obviously been tracking the president's announcement yesterday that on 30 july, the united states undertook a precision counterterr

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kirby warning today that we could see military exercises from china and attempts by china to go into the taiwan air defense zone or military activity in the taiwan strait. they want to make clear that all of that is potentially in the cards but arguing if they do act in reaction to pelosi's visit, they will simply be using the visit as a pretext. pam. >> jeremy diamond at the white house. and joining me to discuss is robert daily. a former u.s. diplomat in beijing and now serves as the director of the wilson center kissinger center on china and the united states. and so you said this is about if the first place, are you concerned that china will use this as a pretext to take military action. >> i don't think they will pull the trigger. i think they will take advantage to do something heescalatory an going into the taiwan air space and that will set up a new baseline which leads us slightly closer to confrontation. i don't think we'll get confrontation this time around. but i don't think we'll be better off in our relations with beijing a week from now than we are today. >> let's talk

. >> we'll get the white house response from john kirby in just a moment. first, we go to greg palkot. he joins us from london this afternoon. hi, greg. >> hi, gillian. yeah, some tough talk from china and more tough action as the exercises around taiwan continue. first the action. taiwan air force jets scrambled as chinese war planes crossed the median line in the strait separating china and taiwan. it's a key buffer zone. that was pounded by chinese artillery yesterday in addition to the dozen misses that china fired towards taiwan on all sides. china says their forces are focusing on what it takes to taiwan, a precursor of an invasion. flights and ship having been disrupted. washington add missing that the u.s.s. ronald reagan aircraft carrier group deployed east of taiwan is being held there to monitor china's actions. again, at a safe distance. secretary state blinken calling the drills a significant escalation. as house pelosi speaker wraps up her asian trip, beijing says they're sanctioning her for her provocative actions and more that will cut off a

l a crisis or conflict. there is - of course what john kirby says of course whatjohn kirby says here that this sounds familiar because we have been through this when it comes to ukraine and russia and the us supporting ukraine and then russia also pushing back against this. there appears to be parallels. against this. there appears to be parallels-— against this. there appears to be parallels. there does appear to be a few _ be parallels. there does appear to be a few parallels _ be parallels. there does appear to be a few parallels here - be parallels. there does appear to be a few parallels here but . to be a few parallels here but in terms of the history, the geography, the fact that they are separated by waters here, china and taiwan, there are also significant differences, especially because most countries in the world don't actually acknowledge taiwan's independence. they have formal ties with asian, that is very different to the situation with ukraine, but as you say, this has been a concern in the west that china will be looking at the invasion of ukraine and that perhaps chi

john kirby says, the air and sea drills using live ammunition are very concerning. u. s. hospital, nancy pelosi visited taiwan on wednesday, sparking an angry response from china. taiwan says chinese naval ships and military plains of moved into its territory. several times. kirby says china's actions won't stop for us operating in the area. united states is prepared for what beijing chooses to do. we will not seek, nor do we want a crisis. at the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas in the skies of the western pacific. consistent with international law. as we have for decades, supporting taiwan and defending a free and open indo pacific residence of a south african township of beaten. a group of men suspected of being illegal miners for you say at least one person's been killed. crowds and coriso and the outskirts of crystal targeted the miners after 8 women were gang raped by armed men last week, please have arrested more than a 120 suspects residency. the miners are responsible for high levels of local crime, 10 minors at frampton collapsed

john kirby was saying, the policy has not changed.if there might be a visit by nancy pelosi, whiche did not confirm, that would not mean we have shifted our position, and we made that very clear to the chinese. he did also outline several respons because the chinese have suggested they might have a military response. they said maybe they would fire missiles into the taiwan strait. maybe they would have an incursion into taiwanese airspace. maybe they would step up air and military exercises. he mentioned these possibilities to say, as you heard, there's no reason for this. this would be a visit by a lawmaker, although a senior one, which has happened before, but it didn't indicate any policy change. >> there's a distinction between the legislative branch and the executive branch of the u.s. government. >> congress is independent of the executive branch. it is up to the speaker to do what she wants, and that is somethg the white house and administration have been saying from the start. they haven't given their own official view of whet

we'll ask john kirby. he's here. also, edward lawrence on why six months after all of these sanctions russia appears to be in the driver's seat. how is that? alex hogan on the growing threat from the nuclear power plant that has nuclear inspectors rushing to the scene. what have they discovered? further, what have they done? welcome. i'm neil cavuto. so glad to have you. a lot to get to. first, let's go to edward lawrence at the white house with how they're responding to all of these developments. edward? >> vladimir putin has 700 billion more in his pocket because of the sale of oil to other countries around the worlds. russia is making 40% more revenue from oil than a year ago. russia raked in 20.4 billion largely because of a 55% increase in exports of oil to china, but also india. >> you've seen an even more dramatic increase in india. india was hardly importing anything from russia when it comes to oil and in the course of the last four or five months, we've seen that increase from basically zero to 8 or 900,000

that's where kirby 's mocron statement comes in.only said that hard times await us, there will be something missing. he said one more thing. he said the good times were ending. that's what it is, it's not that you have to go through this life. the era is ending. yes, and bad. well, the prosperity of this it ends and it is necessary, that is, one must count on the fact that it will be difficult for a long time. this important assertion is also exhausting. by the way, yes, in this case i will continue the thought the maximum that sometimes he writes what he writes simply, but you need to understand that on independence day, but it would be strange if zelensky did not mention victory well, simply, because independence day is flag day there is nowhere to talk about victory, while e , everything is obvious both in kiev and anywhere in the fact that there are no real resources to defeat russia well, just not, the only military tactic and strategy that has been chosen is to try to start a war in a heavy major war of the first world war whe

it was canceled this morning and knew we're back again. >> reporter: united airlines ceo scott kirbyar united has hired 1,500 new pilots in hopes of alleviating staffing shortages and canceled flights. in total u.s. airlines have canceled more than 44,000 flights since june. >> all airlines are not created equal. >> reporter: in his exclusive interview kirby put some of the blame back on the federal government. last week the federal aviation administration said a shortage of air traffic controllers delayed flights into newark, jfk and laguardia by you were to two hours. >> frankly the bigger challenges are not the airlines themselves, they're all the support infrastructure around aviation that hasn't caught up as quickly. >> let me push back on that just a tiny bit because united has had 5,000 cancellation this is summer. what do you say to somebody who does see this as an airline issue rather than some other cause. >> first i would say we're doing everything we can to get the airline running reliably. that's the most important thing or our customers. it's our number one priority. wh

that is john kirby's position. he insisted though, as well that the u. s. policy in no way has changed, it remains the one china policy, and he reiterated that this is what president biden told president she in the 2 and a half our conversation last week. saying that even if the speaker does visit, this does not change us policy one iota, but could be went on to say that china is adapting a more menacing posture in recent days. he speaks about moving military munitions closer to taiwan, greater patrols of the taiwan straits, flying aircraft over the taiwan straits, which is an unusual mood. but he says, this is all on china. there's no change whatsoever in us policy. he says this has been told to present machine by president biden during that confirmation. however, john kirby also confirmed that the speaker is travelling on a military aircraft. he also confirmed that the national security council has brief . this is the speaker and her staff about the visit as a whole. he would not go into the specifics of precisely how she was breathed. and he also says th

we don't want to get ahead of anything she might have to say about the trip. >> john kirby, thank you joining me. >> by pleasure, thank you. >> here in the u.s., voters in the conservative state of kansas voted to uphold state access to abortion services, a major victory for pro-choice groups after the u.s. supreme court overturned roe v. wade two months ago, ending federal protection for the procedure. ever since that ruling abortion has been banned in 10 states across the u.s. and restrictions have been imposed in at least four. the referendum in kansas is the first time voters have had the chance to weigh in on the issue. at the white house today president biden called the vote a decisive victory that would send a powerful signal ahead of the midterm elections in november. with more, our north american correspondent on the big bar. >> i did this deeply conservative state, this moment has gen liberal groups hope. >> it will be ok. >> they expected to vote to protect abortion rights to either be tight or not their grip -- not go their way it all. >> i am speeches there speechless, re

what does kirby say in the interests of the united states of america, he says, listen a.er of fact, what they present to europe says, bring back our zaporozhye station. and we are ready to supply you with electricity americans. don't give it. we will freeze it. well, this is the cooperation of her partnership. yes. well, in between, that is, europe, which is experiencing an energy crisis, the americans, they say, let's freeze it. well, let it stand some there a couple of months ago, this issue was raised, that zelensky could successfully explain the need for negotiations. the truth was that american experts wrote what the biden administration should do, not by direct conversations, but simply by reducing support for ukraine and you, by the way, the germans, in order to reduce support for ukraine to show that they are unhappy, so that shtykiev should negotiate, but this will not be clear. in the foreseeable future, at least until the autumn, my personal position on this issue. she can someone understand that i interrupt you continue. here, too, you need to understand it th

that's one question people like john kirby never think to ask?y assume china must be bluffing, you don't have to take them seriously just like russia. they say they are going to invade ukraine if the we push ukraine to join nato, they are a gas station with the government, they are bluffing. that's what arrogance does, it blinds you to reality. the question is, is china bluffing? what if they are not? what if in response to her totally pointless trip to taiwan, the chinese decide to seize the cayman islands which are now governed by taiwan -- that could actually happen. the chinese government is already making the kind of noises you would expect it to make before doing something like that. here's a selection. >> the chinese government continued to ramp up their warnings saying it undermines china's sovereignty and security. >> we hope the u.s. officials will clearly understand the importance and sensitivity of the issue and how dangerous it would be if the visit happens. >> the chinese claim taiwan as their own and they are concerned beijing coul

we watched the john kirby press conference ahead of the trip.nsuring safe travel should she at her call decide to make this trip. at one point john kirby asking the question, what's the drama after you to your point we heard this menacing rhetoric coming from china ahead of the speaker of the house's visit to taiwan? michael, you can take that. >> it's a dangerous situation when the speaker of the house and white house don't seem to be on the same page. i was very impressed when john kirby admitted yesterday that biden and nancy pelosi have not spoken about this trip. this is historic and it is dangerous and it is important. how could they not have discussed it? the answer is they don't agree. nancy pelosi has a long history of concern about human rights, dalai lama, very skeptical about china. the biden administration so far. >> sandra: she is coming off the plane now. >> let's take a look. let's hope this is the new bipartisan nancy pelosi when she gets home. >> bill: want to see if we can pick up any audio. difficult with the jet engines in t