kirby: yeah.ou know, we expected strong demand. it's been even stronger than we started, and one of the things that we changed and one of the reasons the summer was the best that doesn't mean it was perfect, and particularly, any days that there were weather delays and we had some other unique challenges which we may or may not talk about that really weren't united related directly, but is we pulled the schedule back, and we just decided we have 10 percent more pilots per block hour than we had pre pandemic. we're running a lower utilization of our aircraft than we were before the pandemic, and all of that is to build more buffer into the system. one other big change that happened for united is we had 52 of our biggest airplanes, the pratt & whitney powered 777s, 52 of our largest airplanes that were grounded, that came online really at the beginning of the summer, and it takes time to ramp that up. and that has a huge impact that just flows through the whole system. and so while the third quarter

here is kirby. >> the state visit, first state visit of the biden-harris administration.ortunity to highlight a foundational component of this administration's approach to foreign policy and that's through alliances. france is a vital global partner and of course the united states' oldest ally. economic tie and cutting edge sectors, major investments supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs in each country. our defense and security cooperation continues to expand and is vital to peace and stability all around the world. our partnership in tackling tough global challenges under pinned by the shared democratic principles and values and institutions, and cultural ties are a strength, france is a top destination for many americans and vice versa. so just briefly on the schedule breakdown, on wednesday, president macron will join vice president harris visiting nasa headquarters to showcase our deepening collaboration on space. >> john: seems as though john kirby is not making any news, just talking about the logistics of the upcoming state visit by macron on december 1st, but

>> the white house supports the right of peaceful protests. >> that is john kirby yesterday will show you more what the administration saying about these protests and you can call and, under white house response as you see it so far if you think it is too forceful, 202-748-8000. if you think it's too we, 202-748-8001 and 202-748-8002 everything to response is about right when it comes to the protest. with some context to the stressing the protests were sparked in part because an evening in china the cap of northwest shinji, ten people died after firefighters were slow to about an apartment complex blaze rather than blaming zero covid restrictions. the government denying. this story adding the show of defiance is one of china's most surveilled regions touched a nerve across the country bit when it comes republican response to this, the "new york times" picking up the story one of the responses the administration drew of criticism came from texas republican senator ted cruz saying quote, the biden administration's response has been worse than expected. the ccp should know that one way o

supplying ammunition and artillery shells to the middle east or north african countries, he is john kirby says that in fact it is not about dozens of projectiles, she does not name much more exact numbers, but in fact says that all these deliveries, which in fact are still unknown, whether they reached the customer in russia they are used, but all these supplies say john kirby will not have a significant impact on the course of the war according to washington and how many of them are large enough but not so large as to really help russia bypass all these all this lack of supplies that is now felt in the russian troops let's listen to the comment john kirabi today we will continue to monitor whether these cargoes will be received due to the shortage of supplies and the effectiveness of international sanctions, russia is forced to turn to such players as the dprk and iran to maintain their aggressive war in ukraine and continue to bring death and destruction to commit violence against the ukrainian people, however, this will not change the course of the war and we will continue to provide u

today a white house spokesman, john kirby, was asked for official reaction.e's what he said. >> what is the president's reaction when he hears protesters in china chant "freedom" or xi jinping step down? >> they're speaking for themselves. >> there's no reaction? >> they're speaking for themselves. we're making it clear that we support the right of peaceful protests. >> tucker: the protesters are speaking for themselves? haven't we spent $60 billion to prop up the corrupt government of ukraine because they're on the side of democracy, even though it's not a free or democratic country? that's the pretext, we're for freedom? people are saying we don't be thrown into a concentration camp, or scarfed to death in my own apartment, and the biden administration can't take their side? really? they speak for themselves? john kirby, you should be ashamed of yourself. hard to believe it's real. it is real. the u.s. congress has adopted the same posture, yelping about human rights on twitter, saying nothing about what's happening tonight in china. we were not able to rea

in terms of john kirby's messaging what going on in venezuela.xico city venezuelan government and opposition leaders. and what they want is a u.n. fund that will help them administer funds to go regular venezuelans to help with infrastructure. to help with healthcarenned and the idea from the biden administration that we should be supporting democratic efforts in venezuela and ease sanctions as a carrot to hopefully move in a better direction. did i not feel that was properly discussed from the podium that something that people know is going on. it just sounds like hey, we are okay with venezuela be oil here even though it's a very small amount and actually sanctions implemented in 2019. much broader story than i feel people are getting and i wish the administration had been clearer about that. >> bret: guy, last word on this? >> well, i think it's naive policy on from the biden administration. i would commend mary o'grady's piece in the "wall street journal" today really laying it out and josh made the point the white house and the administratio

we ask that to john kirby.ll try to answer that he is going to be on with us in 20 minutes. >> steve: he is meanwhile, we know that weather is impacting a third of the country and we start with a fox weather alert right now. look at this. a life-threatening storm system rocking the south overnight. 25 reported tornadoes overnight. >> brian: that number growing by the hours as many folks across the region wake up. >> ainsley: our fox weather correspondent nicole valdes joins us live from mississippi with our first look at the aftermath. nicole? >> steve, ainsley, brine, good morning. unfortunately, we are waking up to see damage just like this all across the state of mississippi, louisiana, and alabama. here in caledonia, mississippi, not far from the alabama border, you are looking at a power pole that has just penetrated this mobile home here. you are looking at the insulation, all the siding there. all of this yard and it's just filled with debris. metal shingles lying all over the ground. this is what is lef

host: that is john kirby it the white house yesterday. you can call and comment on the white house response as you see it, if you think it is too forceful (202) 748-8000, too weak (202) 748-8001, and (202) 748-8002 if you think it is just right. the posttests were sparked by an incident in a capital where firefighters were slow to put out a fire and five people died. the city government denies delays. people took to the streets to call for the end of lockdowns. the story adding that the show defines is one of china's most surveilled regions. when it comes to republican response to this, the new york times picking up the story that one of the responses the administration drew of criticism came from texas republic senator ted cruz saying, the bidens administration response -- the bite administration's response has been were sent expected. -- the biden response has been were sent expected. let's show you more from john kirby yesterday more about the protests in china and part of the response. [video clip] >> the president has drawn a line th

white house national security council john kirby british journalists previously published a snapshot of the airfield in machulia claimed that there two mig-31k aircraft are based, and next to them the british scouts allegedly examined the container. where, as they suggested, are the missiles stored. however, kirby did not confirm this fact, and also added that washington does not see any interest on the part of minsk in joining the hostilities on the territory of ukraine. meanwhile, britain is in no hurry to refute. there, busy trying to shift responsibility for the explosions at nord stream and the attacks on sevastopol, by the way, today went to the uk without comment. left the ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation where it was called because of the participation of the british in the preparation of the attacks of kiev in latvia, sparing no means of effort to fight the soviet legacy in the city of ludza. that night, the barbarian dismantled the commemorative arrow to the liberators of the city, they did not officially warn the townspeople about this, everything was

what did you think of john kirby's answers to those questions?> well, let me make an overarching point and i'll answer that. we americans love the word "freedom." we throw it around. when you see what the chinese government and the chinese police are doing to the chinese people, it is a vivid reminder of a totalitarian communist country and freedom and we should condemn china and cherish our freedoms. that's why that interview was so disappointing. i don't understand why the white house is trying to walk a careful line here and not speak out about apple. we should be on the side of freedom. it can be said in a way that doesn't taunt the chinese. i understand the white house delicacies and taking the chinese on. this is one of those issues where they shouldn't be walked gingerly. they should make the statement that what apple is doing is wrong. they shouldn't kowtow and they should allow freedom of speech to take place. it's not a complicated statement for the white house to make. >> martha: they've said many times on this and on this morning in a

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bring in rebecca grant, so john kirby was asked about this yesterday. how he took on the question and answered it, listen here. >> what i can tell you is we are constantly balancing as we must our own inventories, the inventories of our allies and partners and people we do conduct arm sales with as well as, of course, the inventory that the ukrainian armed forces need to fight the russian aggression. >> john: the question he was asked was does the backlog of shipments of taiwan, is that dependent on all the weapons that we are sending to ukraine. it sounded like a roundabout way of saying yes. >> let's simplify this. we have to supply ukraine to fight against russia and we have to help taiwan get ready to deter china. but we can do both of these things. u.s. production does need to catch up, but remember they are getting different equipment. taiwan is getting block 70 f-16. ukraine shorter range weapons. right now ukraine is not shortchanging taiwan but biden needs to spin up and speed up the arms sales to taiwan. >> john: if we do not pay the appropria

today a white house spokesman, john kirby, the famous john kirby, was asked for official reaction to the human rights protests raging today in china. >> and here's what he said. heis the president's what is the president's reaction when he hears protesters in china? chant freedom for xi jinping?t step down. it's not going to speak for protesters around the world. there are speaking for themselves. and so there's no reaction. act? these protesters are speaking for themselves. what we are doing is making itgf clear we support the right of peaceful protest. the protesters are speaking for themselves. we spent 16 billion dollarspropu to prop up the corrupt government of ukraine because they're on the side of freedom and democracy, even though it'so not a free democratic country. >> but that's the pretext we're for freedom. >> but here you have people saying, hey, i don't want to bee thrown in a concentration camp or starve to death on my own apartment. own apartmen and the biden administration can't even take their sidet,, really. they speak for themselves. they don't speak forth the u.s

i'm on the kirby estate , which i'm on the kirby estate, which for those of you who don't know, is inth london. and it's become quite iconic over the years for its wonderful display of flags whenever england play. this began about ten years ago with a couple of flags, and it's just started to grow from there. for those of you who are watching can see we've got around 400 flags on the estate that have all been put up, up in the sky, all across in front of people's balconies . and is people's balconies. and this is all organised many of the all organised by many of the people who live on the estate andifs people who live on the estate and it's a great way for so many people to involved and to people to feel involved and to have spirit. one have that community spirit. one of things i love about it is of the things i love about it is there are also opportunities for people flags up people to put their flags up from from other countries from other from other countries as they are competing. as long as they are competing. thatis as long as they are competing. that is the only rule that i un

again -- but, again, a lot of -- john kirby, quite frankly, one of the best people who one of the best people who works in that white house, that is not saying much. maria: well, mark protesters holding up a blank white piece of paper this blank white paper is a symbol of the frustration with xi jinping regime. platform you communist country rushing to delete images from internet we saw reported yesterday how the chinese bots they have a massive social media campaign, to flood twitter and social media sites with propaganda, and pretty much porn, pornography escorts, so just you know crowds out any pictures of the protesting. mark: it is ridiculous, what i have heard these are porn bots to your point, that are muting essentially what is really going on, right? and, you know, let me take a step back say kudos to people of china, for finally standing up, you know, against these just absolute this insane nonsense they have to deal with on day-to-day basis these lockdowns have just been horrific, so the point where people actually lost lives because of them, and you know china, china has no

kirby said only that they were going to continue to watch closely and see what happens going forward. >> thank you so much. >>> let's bring in robert daily, the director of the kissinger institute. you served as a u.s. diplomat in beijing. i'm wondering from your perspective, since tiananmen square, have you seen protests like this in china, some citizens going as far as calling for political reform? >> there are many protests in china every year, sometimes tens of thousands, but they're all small and local. they have to do with things like land use rights or prices or local government abuse. this is the first time since ts tiananmen square that there have been national protests, not really nationwide, in about 16 different provinces, on one issue. >> how long do you think this uprising will last, considering the chinese government's relentless censorship policies, not to mention the crackdowns? >> well, the discontent and the anger that's reflected are continual and probably growing. but the protests are not ongoing. to the best of our knowledge, there were no protests at any of thes

john kirby at the podium right now. in the face of an impending railroad workers strike, this san issue that president biden took a victory lap on for solving it right before the election. now it's apparently very not solved. a december 9 deadline is looming and it poses the threat that could cripple our supply lines as we head into christmas. mark meredith covering this live at the white house. hi, mark. >> good to see you. we're hearing dire warnings about what a potential rail strike could mean. the president has been actively involved in trying to avoid such a thing. we're waiting on the details how much so. you showed the briefing when peter was asking john kirby what's going on with china and venezuela. i would imagine when the press secretary takes the podium, he may ask about this rail strike. we're hearing from so many economists saying this could cause major product. thing about the ag products and the food that would spoil. imagine if the holiday packages can't reach their destination. we're hearing from the

admiral kirby, good to be us with.heard brief introductory remarks from president biden and president xi. both stressing the need for cooperation to find some common ground. what could some of the areas of common ground be? >> i think certainly climate change. that is something that affects everybody including china, of course. better bilateral and even multilateral trade and economic practices. certainly terrorism is something that both china and the united states facing around the world. and the threat of another pandemic. global health, food security, even energy security will be on the agenda. >> so there are obviously a number of flash points of tension. what will president biden's message be today on taiwan? >> i think his message is going to be very, very consistent, jonathan, with what he said before. what we've said before. one -- one china policy. we don't want to see the status quo across the street be changed unilaterally. certainly not by force. he's going to make it clear we're not seeking a conflict with

but obviously we kirby on we asked for fran kirby being on the kirby and then one the kirby estate.that masterpiece was just incredible. i mean just i mean, every time mean just puts smile on my face. every puts a smile on my face. every time i see it, it's incredible. it's lovely. it's really lovely. and i can't help but and i have to. i can't help but noticing above it. we've got a flag with the lgbt colours. i feel like that looks like you're making little poignant sort of making a little poignant sort of comment yeah, comment to the qataris. yeah, maybe dig towards fifa maybe a little dig towards fifa and show that and qatar just to show that we're inclusive england. and and qatar just to show that we matter nclusive england. and and qatar just to show that we matter who ;ive england. and and qatar just to show that we matter who ite england. and and qatar just to show that we matter who it isengland. and and qatar just to show that we matter who it is thatind. and and qatar just to show that we matter who it is that can and no matter who it is that can play no matter who it is

. >> ainsley: john kirby was asked about this. this was on monday.t he had to say. >> what is the president's reaction when he hears protesters in china chant freedom or xi jinping step down? >> the president is not going to speak for protesters around the world. they are speaking for themselves. >> does the white house report their effort to sort of regain personal freedoms in light of these lockdowns? >> the white house supports the right of peaceful protest. >> ainsley: this incident is not going to speak for them. they can speak for themselves. but, actually, they risk being beaten. they risk being arrested if they speak for themselves. so they are being criticized. the white house is being criticized for not taking a strong enough stance. china is violating basic human rights in that country. and many are saying our president should react to how these protesters are being treated. the government of arkansas, asa hutchison says biden should always support in freedom. america does support the protesters, dan crenshaw, republican from texas tweeted

as you see we have a guest as you know we have a guest from national security council, john kirby with us today. who is gonna take your questions ahead of the state visit. as you know will be happening on thursday, however first state visit with france. our first state to visit clearly in this instruction that i will start right away and turn over to kirby. all right, john. john: i have a couple of comments here at the top about the state visit. as the first state visit of the biden harris administration is the opportunity to highlight a foundational component of this administration's approach to foreign policy and esther alliances. france is a vital partner and united states oldest allies. major investments in both directions supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs in each country, the defense and security cooperation continues to stand and its vital security all around the world. it is underpinned by our shared commitment to democratic spools, values, institutions, our cultural ties -- democratic tools, values, institutions are cultural ties are of top importance. on the schedule br

john kirby just a moment ago saying there's 9,000 permits issued by this president that have gone unused by the oil and gas industry. is that a missed opportunity? is the white house getting this right? >> well, sandra, the administration views some oil as good and some oil as bad. venezuelan heavy crude is good and canadian crude is bad. that's what i think we're seeing two years now some very inconsistent energy policy. to be honest with you, you wouldn't have to be lifting sanctions on venezuela crude if you had reached out to the canadians on day one instead of cancelling their pipeline. so, you know, we can say to the administration yes, we can produce all we can in the united states, but the reality is, you have to have good allied trading partners. i don't know why canada is not one of those better partners versus the venezuelan crude. >> sandra: what is your reaction to an administration that has not been encouraging more production here at home, has the ability to roll back regulations and at leastout rhetoric that is more friendly to the fossil fuel industry. but doesn't do tha

a key white house national security official, john kirby, joins me live this hour. we'll discuss. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> let's get right to our top story. new fallout from the paul pelosi attack. u.s. capitol police now facing intense scrutiny from a top u.s. house committee chairwoman. cnn law enforcement correspondent whitney wild is working the story for us. so what does congresswoman lofgren demanding from u.s. capitol police? >> reporter: in a word, capitol police told congress in december 2020, they were concerned about heightened threats, including to house speaker nancy pelosi, and they told congress she gets the most threats of any member of congress. and yet this brutal attack still happened. they want to know why and what the department is doing to stop it. the letter says this, the incident and related circumstances, including the manner in which the speaker and her family were targeted raise significant questions about security protections for membe

when we did learn yesterday from john kirby, jose is that there is some evidence that the u.s.north korea may be planning to provide artillery shells to russia for use in ukraine. very different from missiles and these are artillery and they have been a critical part of that fight in ukraine and particularly what we've seen these past couple of months in the east and down in the south. artillery has played a different rel there and they've expended hundreds, if not thousands of artillery rounds and they need a resupply. what's important to point out is so far the u.s. does not have any thaefrz in fact, any of these artillery shells have made their way to russia or into ukraine. at this point it seems according to john kirby, they're trying to obscure the route that they're taking and they're taking from north korea into parts of north africa into the middle east to obscure where they're coming from. turning to ukraine, also a place where we're hearing a lot of headlines, one of the things i'm watching there right now is in addition to the fact that iran is trying to send more w

stopped , said the white house national security council strategic communications coordinator john kirby during a briefing. he added that at the same time hostilities may have a slightly different appearance depending on the weather conditions, in addition to that, the admiral said that adverse weather can make it significantly more difficult for russia to use aviation. and besides, john kirby today also explained washington's refusal to provide the armed forces of ukraine with long -range weapons, according to him, the administration of the us president simply does not want an escalation in the war. that is why they are afraid to give us these weapons so that we do not attack in russian territory, but in ukrainian where the russian military is now and destroy their bases, for example, are far away in crimea, well, i don’t understand this, but this is politics and diplomacy. at the beginning of next year, the parliament of hungary will allow finland and sweden to join nato, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, peter siardom, said on his facebook page that assured the process of hi

kirby noted that washington will carefully monitor whether russia received these shells.f he then says that intelligence said that they received and that they received, well, there will probably be new sanctions against the north korea well, there are already so many sanctions that i don't know. let 's move on. iran and russia have never been so close in their views, and therefore they should do their best to develop this potential, the minister of oil of the islamic republic of iran, jawat ou ji , said today. according to him, during the last few months , there were a lot of meetings between the delegations of both countries, after which a number of oil and gas agreements were concluded, in addition, the minister informed that tehran agreed with moscow that russian companies will develop an oil field on the territory of iran, the value of the agreement is more than 4 billion dollars and more russia has committed to send oil products to iran in a word iranian drones and missiles are unfortunately doing their job unfortunately they are doing their job both in iran and on i

kirby making clear earlier today that's something the white house officials, white house wants to see come to fruition right now as to what would happen if a chinese crackdown grew harsh and public kirby said right now white house officials just waiting and watching very closely as things play out. >> ivan, are there any indications that president xi will relax the zero-covid policy? >> reporter: well, there are some little perhaps glimmers of hope. the beijing city government on sunday announced that that -- it was prohibitk the authorities from blocking the entrance ways to residential buildings and presumably this is linked to the fact that there are serious suspicions that residents could not escape from that apartment fire and this may have been a signal. but at the same time the covid cases in china are going up. they have been breaking daily records for the last six days. so the authorities are kind of in a trap. do they loosen up and the covid cases keep growing and it spirals out of control, or do they try to keep a grip on all of this? i think that one of the real realizatio

she reports in that intro that john kirby that north korea is shipping shells.id it's a significant number. intelligence suggests that they're funneling shells through the middle east and north africa. the u.s. is monitoring this to determine whether those shells have actually been received and whether or not they are actually being used by russia in this war. i do want to update you and throw another big story line into the mix here. russia is back in that black sea grain deal, according to the turkish president. russia suspended or withdrew on saturday. no ships left ports on sunday. ships filled with grain left monday, tuesday and according to ukrainian officials at least eight vessels are expected to leave today. of course, as we've been talking about all week, they're heading for the middle east for the horn of africa to help with global famine. the other only update i'll bring you is from the capital. cruise missiles knocked out power for hundreds of thousands, knocking out the water supply. president zelenskyy says the water is back onto every household.

the first state visitnstructionl start right away and turn over to kirby. all right, john. john: i have a couple of comments here at the top about the state visit. as the first state visit of the biden harris administration is the opportunity to highlight a foundational component of this administration's approach to foreign policy and esther alliances. france is a vital partner and united states oldest allies. major investments in both directions supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs in each country, the defense and security cooperation continues to stand and its vital security all around the world. it is underpinned by our shared commitment to democratic spools, values, institutions, our cultural ties -- democratic tools, values, institutions are cultural ties are of top importance. on the schedule breakdown, wednesday president mccrone, will go to nasa headquarters to show deepening collaboration on space. the bulk of the visit events will take place on thursday starting with the official arrival ceremony. while president biden and president mccrone conduct a bilateral

according to the national security council's john kirby. the weapons including a significant number of artillery shells being funneled through countries in the middle east and north africa to hide their ultimate final destination, one of the pieces of news this afternoon, coming out of north korea, which fired off a record 23 ballistic missiles today. nbc's courtney kube is at the pentagon and talk about the pentagon response and what we're hearing from the white house about this pair of big headlines. >> on the launches, the korea launches, u.s. officials say it is most likely a direct response to the ongoing u.s./south korea air exercise. it is an enormous exercise. historically large with hundreds of sorties in the air and north korea threatened it would respond and the u.s. was expecting it could look like this with the ballistic missile launch, the key is the number of launches, much larger than the officials i've been speaking with were expecting. 23 missiles. and about 100 artillery rounds. the u.s. and south korea are continuing the

kirby's comments are not illustrating the fuld story. to read a statement from the american petroleum institute. these claims demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding how liesing works. there are many reasons a lease may not be producing yet. supply chain, workforce, et cetera. they talk about the threat of regulation from the epa. a lot of these leases are not viable, then they also talk about the very, very slow walk to approve applications which according to the american petroleum institute is almost at a standstill right now. so you can say all you want from the pulpit in the white house but, do something completely different. >> sure. so look, john kirby's comments show that the biden administration either completely doesn't understand oil and gas or they're just okay being wrong and don't care. i don't know what is worse but the fact is, look, the permits, the permits are slower than they were under the trump administration. the administration has canceled the offshore leasing auction. they canceled fracking on federal lands. the

question to john kirby, do the -- personal freedom and the answer was not automatic yes. john kirby said we support their right to peaceful protests, do you think if the shoe was on the other foot, china take a weak response? absolutely not, why are we? not just anti-lock protests, these are pro-democracy protests. the number one country is trying to underminus. president biden responded to a statement in a press conference and did not release a statement himself. >> todd: it is not russia, it issin choo. totalitarian way are being exposed and instead of taking advantage of the moment and show the world that democracy beats communism every single time, biden appears weak. take a step back and say what is happening here and i like to follow the money. biden has ties to china. where is the n.b.a. on this? because of money ychl do multi national corporations not speak out? because of the money. everybody is scared to upset the apple cart, they are holding white pieces of paper so they don't get censured. the image will get censured, but the message isser cloo, the people of

i've heard all it on the kirby estate today. heard all it on the kirby estate today .nd put flags up on the estate. and i have to confess , estate. and i have to confess, this is probably the time that i should admit that i'm i'm not the biggest football fan. however, been however, i think i've been converted because can converted today because how can you not be i mean, looking around this estate now, i mean, there are 400 flags out on estate. and this is a tradition that been going on for about ten years now. it started off with a couple of flags and then it really grew from there and they've got them outside each flat. particular i can see flat. what particular i can see actually this flag to, my left is the flags actually is some of the flags actually names of people on the estate who've passed away they put who've passed away and they put their on the flags to their names on the flags to remember really remember them. and it really been an enormous community event that they do this whenever there's england are competing . there's england are competing. this was so

kirby, i'm addressing you to him.m that in the sky over belarus mig-31 flies. strategic and this means instant-31 in the republic of belarus there is nothing to do, but from the point of view of air defense it will only take off, it is already on the territory of poland or on the territory of russia or on the territory of ukraine, and by the way, speaking instant-31 - this is a platform for just daggers . so mr. kirby confirm, you don't confirm, use your brains as always. if you heard anything that our president said, at least one meter. here we are here to hesitate. i'm sure our president is so hesitant. yes, that's roughly speaking about how it will be perceived there is nothing to climb climbed, then you take on all the responsibility, including what vladimirovich promised. yes, and what alexander grigorievich promised. think read the speeches of our presidents. you will understand what's what, and let's get straight. now let's listen to the speech of our president at the meeting with the secretary general. mkb ale

you know, jesse, one quick thing here, john kirby speaking to the press a little bit earlier.was asked well, what does president biden say about all of this? what is his response to the students, the chinese that are speaking out and john kirby said that the president doesn't have anything to say. he can let the protesters speak for themselves. this is how the protesters have been speaking, jesse. they have to hold up blank sheets of paper because slogans have been criminalized. criminalized a year ago china took over hong kong. slogans are criminalized. so many protests have happened. so many people holding up white sheets of paper that the paper manufacturer had to actually ban them. they were forced by the chinese government. they said that simply the blank sheet of paper for white piece of paper is a national security concern. now they can't even hold up white sheets of paper sloganless, so no one is speaking out for them. joe biden could have done this, jesse. when he went to g-20 and sat down for three hours with xi jinping, there is no indication he brought this up. bec

protestors who are chanting give me liberty or give me death in some cases, but here is what john kirbysten. >> why is the white house's line that everybody has the right to peacefully protest and not the u.s. thinks it's bad to lock people up in their houses to stop covid? >> we have made it clear, peter, that a -- a lockdown is not a policy that we are going to support here. obviously there are people in china that have concerns about that, and they are protesting that and we believe they should be able to do that peacefully. >> brian: how weak is that. >> i think it's very weak and part is self-awareness there are people in the party of the president, the democratic party who are governors, mayors, people in different parts of the country who wanted people arrested, and some cases did, wanted people fined and businesses closed, who had people removed from airplanes, who had all kinds of things going on, all kinds of restrictions. now, nothing compares to what the chinese are willing to do to someone, i'm not making that comparison but i think he's self-aware he cannot go too far crit

bad game , representatives of the us security council are trying to make in the united states john kirby said the discussions are moving forward indeed the day before, another round of negotiations took place in the eu, but another failure, as reported by the european media again a stone , a stumbling block, the maximum price of 65-70 dollars per barrel is how much our urals now costs most of the countries against poland and the baltic states demand there to set a limit of 30 dollars. sanctions are not influenced the execution of the budget, all social programs are funded in full, mikhail mishustin said today at a government meeting for the first nine months of this year, budget revenues exceed the costs of new employees. thanks to the president's decision, it was possible to prevent the development of events according to negative scenarios, budget revenues for january-september were higher than expected. they grew by 10% compared to the same period last year and approached trillions of rubles. expenses also increased by five and a half percent to about 19.5 trillion rubles. including du

retired admiral john kirby will be our guest. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, november 1st. exactly one week until the midterm vote. joe will be back tomorrow but along with willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist at "the washington post," eugene robinson, member of the ”the new york times” editorial board, mara gay, the host of "way too early," white house bureau chief at "politico," jonathan lemire, and nbc news senior reporter ben collins, and willie, we're having ben back today. he was pointing out the conspiracy theories in light of the attack on paul pelosi and how they have spiralled out of control with no guardrails and we saw it again yesterday after the news conference that we just showed you a part of where within seconds if you went on twitter or anywhere online that was, you know, off the mainstream media, off of the focus, it was incredible, the conspiracy theories, the vitriol, the hatred, the cruelty that started flying once again about paul pelosi. things are different, and there's a new level of dangerous. >> and

other topics, we have the national security council coordinator for strategic communications john kirbyso much for being with us. you are obviously keeping a close eye on what is happening in china. the administration has asserted that the u.s. supports the right to peaceful protest. but will the u.s. specifically call on the chinese government to stop detaining and harming protesters? will it go for that stronger language? >> well, part of standing up for peaceful protests is in fact making it clear that we don't want to see protesters physically harmed, intimidated, coerced in any way. that's what peaceful protest is all about, and that's what we have continued to stand up for, whether it's in china or iran, i think we've been pretty clear about what we expect governments to do when there are protesters peacefully trying to make their voices heard. >> you mention iran. it does seem that the u.s. is having tougher rhetoric for iran than china. why is that? >> it's not about tougher rhetoric. i think we've been very consistent about the right of assembly and peaceful protest. now, in ir

thoughts on whether or not the free world is going to confront this and, you know, look, yesterday john kirby, giving us a statement on the people of china and they said that they think they should be able to protest peacefully but really where is the support for the people? there wasn't any support for the people of iran, okay. the courageous women who took to the street, continue to do so today. are we really supporting the people of china? is this administration going to do anything more to push back on authoritarianism and totalitarianism? >> it's staggering because this administration came in and felt that the united states foreign policy under previous leadership going all the way back to president bush was too muscular in terms of using military power and what we had to do is use diplomacy to accomplish our objectives and of course everybody agrees with that. when diplomacy fails, at times you have to use force to accomplish your objectives but the reality is, this is diplomacy and not to answer the clarion call of the iranian people who are two months plus into this demonstration, the

following that report, john kirby told reporters u.s. intelligence is keeping a very close eye on russia's nuclear threat kirby insisted there are still no indications that moscow is actively preparing for a nuclear strike >> this all comes as russian troops continue to lose ground, and ukrainian forces close in on the major strategic city of kherson in the south if and when the battle of kherson begins, it could be the most significant yet of this war. meantime, it appears russia is getting help from not only iran, but now also north korea u.s. officials say kim jong-un is secretly supplying the russian military with artillery shells and that iran is preparing to send moscow some short-range ballistic missiles to replenish their dwindling stockpile. >>> north korea launched a record breaking barrage of 23 ballistic missiles today it's the most in a single day ever recorded. for the first time, one of them landed off the coast of south korea, as tensions continue to snowball the south korean air force responded wits own show of force. it

we interviewed john kirby a little while ago on the show, watch this. >> what i meant by saying thatt we are not going to put our words into their mouths. they are speaking for themselves. they are out in the streets periods they are braving the elements to make clear what their views are. they are speaking for themselves. we stand up for the right of every citizen around the world to be able to speak up freely and peacefully for what they believe in. that's what i was talking about, it's not about us inserting our language or our rhetoric into what they want to talk about. >> brian: a white house spokesperson speaking out and measuring every word and sang the president is not going to speak. justin trudeau of all people says this. "we, canada, will continue to ensure china knows we stand for human rights we will stand with the people expressing themselves. also need to ensure people around the world are respecting journalists on their ability to do their job, while matt, canada they can speak and they are not worried about putting words in the mouths of protesters, freedom and liber

look, i have a certain respect for john kirby but he ought to stick to national security and military matters. when it comes to energy, you talk to anybody in the oil business and they will tell you about the regulations and unnecessary interference by this administration in the production of domestic energy. its transmission to refineries and marketplaces. they're doing everything they possibly can to drive the cost of hydrocarbons up and to discourage people from being able to produce abundant, low-cost energy for the american people. and john kirby can say they have 9,000 permits this and that, he obviously has not talked to anybody in the energy industry what they're doing to make it difficult to build a pipeline, difficult to build a transmission plant, make it difficult to drill. labor, put a bunch of unnecessary regulations on top of oil and energy production. this is what is causing the prices to go up. supply, more supply will bring down prices. the administration is stuck between the their claims that they want to do something about energy prices and their policies which do

you had kirby saying there's 9,000 oil leases. he knows. everybody knows the you need hundreds of millions of dollars to get those oil leases going and the oil companies have said again and again and again you're not about to invest in something that you are at war with, and that is oil. >> the president said we are going to shut down oil, and the oil companies have taken him at his word and not invested their money in it. that money should be going to american workers and american jobs, not a bunch of communists in south america. >> trace: kurt schlichter, leslie marshall, great to have you on. meantime, religious liberty groups touting a victory as the biden administration did not appeal a federal court ruling from august that struck down a transgender mandate through the now overturned health and human services rural required doctors and hospitals to perform gender reassignment surgeries on any patient including children even if it was against doctors conscience or medical judgment. we will keep you up to speed. classes back in session a

i am joined by jennifer kirby at the energy department. the senior and the -- thank you both for joining us. ms. gerbi great to be here. mr. sivaram: thanks for having me. ms. caldwell: your audience we want to hear from you, please tweeted us at post live if you have any questions for our guests. jennifer, vern you both opted to work in public service. can you tell us about your job on a daily basis, and why you think it is so important, jennifer if you want to start? ms. gerbi: i am happy to. i came from industry. it is an unusual place where on term limits. we come for three to five years and leave. they come because we are driven by the mission of the agency, and we want to make a difference. for me, the main reason why i came was freedom we have to pursue what is the right thing we should do? what is the right element to solve and have a very close to the impact of that and be able to make the decisions and have a portfolio. and have a personal impact on that. that level of freedom is important. i have to say it is the busiest i've ev

here's john kirby yesterday when he was asked about this. watch this. >> the statement that was issued earlier today, didn't include any calls for china to stop detaining and harming protesters and journalists. why not? >> we're watching this closely as you might expect. we continue to stand up and support the right of peaceful protests. i think we're going to watch this closely and we'll see where things go. >> martha: marc, what does that answer tell you? >> it tells me their number one priority is not freedom and democracy. it's climate change. they care more habit cutting a deal with the chinese to reduce carbon emissions than about supporting the protesters. we need to keep in mind the protesters are inspiring but the chinese communist regime is the most brutal regime on the face of the earth. go back to 1989. the british ambassador sent a secret cable saying at a minimum, 10,000 people massacred. they bayonetted students as they begged for their lives. he said they sent armored personnel carriers in to crush the protesters and run over

i am joined by jennifer kirby, the acting director at the advanced research project agency. and the senior advisor to the special presidential envoy for john kerry. thank you both so much for joining us. >> it's a very unusual place in that we are all on term limits, we work for two to five years and we leave. we come because we are driven by the mission of the agency and we want to be able to really make a difference. for me, the main reason i came was freedom that we have to pursue what is the right thing we should do, what is the right problem to solve and to actually have a very closely impacted by that it make the decisions and have a portfolio and have a lot of personal impact on that. the level of freedom was important to me. i have to say it is the busiest i have ever been but it's the best job i've ever had and it is because i believe in the mission 100%. it has been important for me. >> well, like jennifer, i joined from industry. i was formerly the chief technology officer in india. i joined because this is a once in a generation opportunity to re-see how the unit

admiral kirby with interesting words how we won't tolerate lockdowns. >> soft and leaving a nickel forat makes a statement. it tells the chinese communist party that we're afraid of you. this is as much as we can muster. it would have been better to have said nothing because then people can use their imagination about the big, bad america that won't put up with this craft. we have gone past with afghanistan. there women are being tortured and held back from schools and locked in their homes and iran and what they're doing to women there and protestors. these people have protested because the tyrants have burdened them more because they know the white house is a paper tiger. so this is our problem. we can't run the world but my goodness, you can at least stand up and issue some kind of stern strength. but that would have had to have started from the beginning. >> harris: whatever the foreign doctrine is on china from this white house is so muddled at this point you can't even see it through the blurred lines. that's the point. the president saying we'll fight for taiwan. that's never be