florida congressman michael waltz on how we should be preparing. he'll join us live in moments. >> john: begin "america reports" this thursday afternoon with 19 days to go now until the midterms. president biden out on the campaign trail today as the pennsylvania senate race comes down to the wire. hello, i'm john roberts in washington. >> sandra: 19 days out, hard to believe. here we go. sandra smith in new york. the president travelling today for his only campaign stop of the week. he'll talk infrastructure before heading to philadelphia to stump for john fetterman. >> john: happening as polls show republican dr. oz closing the gap against john fetterman, and republicans also gaining ground in contests thought to be democratic strongholds. >> sandra: our panel standing by. mollie line is standing by in deep blue rhode island. so first to bryan llenas on the ground in philadelphia, expecting to see the president a short time from now. hi, bryan. >> hi, sandra. $167 million have been spent in the pennsylvania senate race. it's the second most expen

michael waltz is a congressman from. >> brian: the pandemic is over, right?n't he tell us that in. steve: they say it when it's convenient. >> ainsley: out is saving americans lives. all these branches in the myrtle kicking meaning out they too have saved so many american lives. go in there save americans lives but not good enough to serve because he chooses not to get vaccinated because he doesn't believe it. >> every single one of our branches down precipitously in terms the recruits. the ones who show up most of which aren't qualified. i talked to a recruit over the weekend the two people they have gotten in over the last two weeks both homeless, homeless people. they had absolutely no other option. >> steve: to your point, brian, if the service wants to have people like zac do their jobs and save people's lives, they have got to make a decision. is the coronavirus pandemic over like the president said or is it still going like the president said? , you know, he has quote to make up his mind. congressman michael swalts has made up his mind. he thinks what

so let's adjust. >> todd: congressman michael waltz, thank you for joining us as always.ox & friends" starts right now. >> the president heads to florida to meet with ron desantis. >> hurricane ian left 61 people dead there. >> floridians trying to make sense of the disaster. >> getting my husband's personal things. ross him two months ago and now i lost our home. >> thanked him all the would arend and he the coasty have been doing. >> about to lose their jobs thanks to the president's vaccine mandates. >> mark lohse about to get kicked out of the guard. >> no one wants open borders. >> seeking a 24 bi

all running for congress,man michael waltz, of course, serving, thank you all so much for joining mess you. will: turn to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth -- rick: hey, will, i needed a han- will: oh, you're going to take over pun king fromday. -- from dave. [laughter] rick: this is a little hint of our costumes that are coming up in a little bit, you don't want to miss it. meanwhile, take a look at the weather maps. all right, we've been talking about the brought going on -- drought going on across the central part of the country that's really been affecting the mississippi river, and we're getting some rain there, but we need a lot of rain. this is over the next five days. we saw a couple inches mt. south mississippi yesterday bring the river levels up a couple of feet, but we're still having impacts of getting barges and such on the river, and that's having a big impact. somebody just sent me on twitter that the water around galveston, there's not as much muddy water going out, looks like destin, which is amazing. enjoy joy that right now. we do have a lot of moisture coming int

congressman michael waltz is here on what an empowered xi jinping means for america and a potentiallyd presidentment that's next. ♪ ♪ with my hectic life you'd think retirement would be the last thing on my mind. hey mom, can i go play video games? sure, after homework. thankfully, voya provides comprehensive solutions and shows me how to get the most out of my workplace benefits. what's the wifi password again? here you go. cool. thanks. no problem. voya helps me feel like i've got it all under control. because i do. oh she is good. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected. maria: welcome back. well, the chinese communist party concluded its people's congress yesterday where shi xi jinping was granted an unprecedented third term and anointed dictator for life. one of his first public moves was to humiliate and take out his predecessor, china's former president, hu jintao. he was physically s courted out of his seat and and out of the closing ceremony, clearly against his own will. he seemed to resist and looked back at his seat while being escorted out. joining me live is fl

congressman michael waltz on red threat rising from china. how would the u.s.e to war with taiwan. will the cdc add covid to mandatory vaccines. all of that, plus kennedy. i am john robert. join sandra and me top of the hour for "america reports." >> welcome back. it appears another liberal leader isn't letting a crisis go to waste. canadian prime minister justin trudeau suggesting that russia's invasion of ukraine has been good for the country's green agenda, saying the war accelerated canada's move from oil and gas. >> russia and krukz delay energy transition? >> no, it is accelerating. it is absolutely accelerating. as people are saying, wow, we built an economic model and prosperity in some parts of the world that was reliant on energy inputs from russia, as they have to get off that, people are realizing getting off russian oil and gas means getting onto more oil and gas to replace that from elsewhere, but also showing we need to accelerate our move off of oil and gas or moves to decarbonize the gas at least. >> jackie, innocent people are still dying. tha

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here's michael waltz from florida. >> if it's not dead it's on life support.adly, as desperately as the biden administration wants this deal where they just make concession after concession after concession, a total a a a appeasement strategy, between them attacking journalists, shooting school girls in the streets, on top of all of that they're providing advanced drones to the russians. maria: general, your thoughts on the state of iran right now. >> well, we're at the 40th day in these protests and they are significant in terms of it's more than 100 cities and it's from high school students all the way up to workers in the cities initiated obviously by women who were forced to wear the hijab. it's bigger than that. it pulled off the scab of the lack of dignity and freedoms for all. they're yearning for democracy. the united states should be leading the world as a call to back these people. not just one time as the president said but continuously in doing that and organize a world effort to do that and get the u.n. involved as well. the people on the streets

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michael waltz of florida and seth mullton join us now. thank you very much.ans right now are thinking about our engagement and to help second handedly in the war in ukraine, and the two of you would like to bring to the forefront the concept of escalation with china. is the u.s. prepared for escalation? seth, i'll start with you. >> frankly, we're not. we're working very hard to get prepared, and we saw amazing examples of that from the troops that mehmet on the ground in the pacific, but as a major leagues we're not ready. xi jinping has made it very clear that he wants to get out of this war. what americans need to understand is we don't have a plan to fight this war through taiwan, like fighting the ukraine through the ukrainian. if they go to war and we're there to stop them, a lot of americans are going to die. that's why we have to prevent this war from ever happening. >> congressman waltz, what signs did the two of you see and hear about in your travels that lead you to believe that escalation is sooner than u.s. is either prepared for or thinks will h

florida republican congressman mic mic michael waltz and a marine. thank you for being here today. it for you to make this trip and do it with somebody like seth moulton? >> dana, i think it's just important to remind the american people of why the security of taiwan matters to them. if you look at where it is on the map, and if china is under xi is successful in invading and taking taiwan, china will essentially control 50% of global gdp and control the shipping lanes into sought korean and the most advanced computers chips on the front lines of democracy. i think we face a very real chance of taiwan becoming the next ukraine within the next 5 to 10 years. chairman xi is making that very clear. he is going to do it one way or another. so the question is are we running out of time from the united states standpoint to deter that from happening? unlike what happened in ukraine where we did not deter successfully russia from invading it. >> dana: anything to add there congressman moulton? also talk about whether you think the united states and biden administration policies are keeping

let's bring in republican congressman michael waltz a florida. a member of the house armed services committee. it is tempting to focus in all this on how this combustible economic picture will play out in the mid-terms. the more important thing to drill down on you first here is how this is playing out in the american people's daily lives now many months into this inflation crisis? i know that in part americans are in the wake of a storm without basic electricity service. >> biden's reaching out to dictatorships, venezuela, iran with 50 million barrels they are trying to sell as part of the iran deal, and others just isn't working. now we have opec restricting supply. what's frustrating is right here under the ground in the united states of america we have oil and cleaner gas than russian gas or others ready to go. not only would it help americans at the pump, but it is the biggest driver of inflation because everything has to be transported. but the other piece is on foreign policy. russia has invaded, putin has invaded its neighbors every time

. >> bill: a warning from the florida veteran michael waltz now as president xi is appointed to a third. after the chilling scene from over the weekend. his predecessor sitting to his left is the man standing now escorted out of the closing ceremony in a public display of dismissal. no explanation given. jack keane, senior strategic analyst and former vice chief of staff for the army. general, good morning to you. it was quite a moment. what do you think it means, general? what do you take from it? >> this whole party congress week while scripted as it is and all decisions made before it starts. it is always somewhat revealing. in some cases very intentionally so as we just witnessed there. his former predecessor, is an elder statesman. he is at the party congress as a matter of courtesy to him and for his leadership. they fundamentally moved him out of there to demonstrate how powerful president xi is. everybody sitting there probably got the same reaction that we all do. a chilling experience to watch somebody who has been in leadership positions most of their adult life and being tre

florida congressman michael waltz joined me on sunday morning futures, slaming the administration's handlingiran and the pursuit of an iran deal which would strengthen the hand of leadership there, even in the face of these people on the street. watch. >> if it's not dead, it's on life support. i mean, as badly as desperately as the biden administration wants this deal where they just make concession after concession after concession, total appeasement strategy between the iranians openly trying to assassinate american officials, attacking journalists on american soil, now literally shooting school girls in the streets on top of all of that they're providing advanced drones to the russians. maria: so congressman, what about that? do you think the iran deal is going to move forward and what is your take on these people lining the streets of iran, this picture i think is just extraordinary to show all of these people trying hard to be heard in iran. >> well, the freedom protesters in iran should be supported and lauded for their bravery as you have just done, maria. this administration is as m

michael waltz joined us on the program yesterday and he had a really, really strong warning on what mayg here and what may come next. listen. >> if he takes taiwan, he'll control about 50% of global gdp. he will be able to control the trade and the shipping into japan, south korea, malaysia, indonesia, all of east asia, and about 90% of the world's computer chips. this is in our interest to stop this from happening. >> sandra: a pretty stark warning there. do you agree with that? >> i do agree with what he is saying. when you look at taiwan and the computer chip, the microprocessor production that is done there, they are primary to the u.s. for appliances, for automobiles, for other pieces of equipment. taiwan is a trusted partner. now, as i was recently in taiwan and over in the indopacific, i heard repeatedly whether taiwan or other nations, they are very worried about china's aggressiveness. they are very worried about the perception that joe biden is weak. they see this as something that has emboldened xi jinping. they are concerned that as there are surveys and interviews of other

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