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

rebecca grant. dr. gs that stood out to me with these opening remarks is that the first thing that the president said was his main objective is climate change. what stuck out to you? >> yes, getting climate change back but biden said, hey, president xi jinping do you want to cooperate? and he had a stern opening, and he said history, the other history of beating up china. he says he wants to elevate the relationship. that is code word for drop the tariffs. so really pretty stern attack from xi jinping. they will have a lot to talk about with that big delegation. i hope biden doesn't go too far with claimant change because every solar investment here really benefits china, which controls up to 97% of the solar panel manufacturing supply ch chain. >> remember when xi jinping was talking to the end, the relationships with u.s. and china but also to get along with other countries. what did you make of that comment? >> another excellent call. that is what the world is waiting to see is xi jinping going to coo

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rebecca grant on importance of this meeting. >> it's a very important meeting, cordial to start it you hava. the fact is china is making the world a more dangerous place. this is xi jinping's first trip to the west since covid and his second trip in the last 2-1/2 years. xi jinping wants to show world influence, biden has to remind him that the u.s. is still the worl's leader. >> carley: it is interesting what is said in opening remarks we just heard from the president of both countries. they tend to be cookie cutter, but you get indication of where the two stan. president biden mentioned climate change and xi jinping talked about the relationship between united states and china and she interpreted that to mean xi jinping wants the united states to drop the tariffs, which we'll see if that will take place, likely not. this is a very historic moment, you see the handshake there, they talked on the phone or over video call five times throughout biden's presidency and biden said he is the leader that has spent the most time with xi jinping. now they are meeting face-to-face today ahead of

rebecca grant. doctor, good morning. thanks for joining us.ke on the riots in this town and what's happening. >> this tells me that china's xi jinping's got problems. he's got a slow economy, and now this zero covid lockdown policy has caused riots. and this riot was a combination of a wage protest and protests over the lockdowns. this is an iphone 14 plant, they make about 80% of that production, and these workers live in dorms on site. they were told they'd get paid more, showed up and told they wouldn't get paid that amount, and they were under lockdown. joey, i hate seeing these riots over a product that we buy. it's just not right. joey: i like how you connect what's happening in china, you know, you've said this is probably a covid lockdown and wage dispute, not just something technical like wages. it's also how they're being treated. but i like how you connect it back to our own supply chain and the idea that this highlights our reliance on authoritarian dictatorship or really a country that has no freedoms. so people riot like this, th

>> julie: national security and military analyst rebecca grant joins me now to talk about this.esearch. thank you very much for talking to us. you know, vladimir putin is now weaponizing winter. he is leaving people quite literally freezing, power and what are cut off in areas across ukraine, recently restored in kyiv but still people are suffe. missiles continue destroyed lives. a newborn baby was killed after a missile struck at a maternity ward. is there any end to this war insight? >> it is so tragic to see this nine months in. but i will say this, there are two important points here. one is, most of all, putin's barbaric attacks are not going to break ukraine. the energy grid is very easy to target, but it's almost impossible to knock it out completely. second and m most important, ukraine's air defenses are doing a really great job, and that helps morale for the ukrainian people. if they can see their military shooting back and knocking down many of those cruise missiles, it helps them hold up. ukraine says they will fight as long as it takes. >> julie: the norwegian refug

bring in national security analyst rebecca grant. them any sympathy because they do such brutal censorship. what was your take on this, trudeau looked pretty shaken walking away from the camera? what do you make of all this? >> ouch. that is xi xinping turning into marlon brando in in "the godfather." a mafia movie moment. incredible contempt for the leader of canada. this is not how we behave at the g20. we know how xi behaves at home with his communist party. very shocking. elizabeth: to your point, well-taken, when you watch the footage. trudeau was literally shaking walking out of the room. chinese state media is portraying a meeting between xi xinping and president biden as a victory. they are saying biden backed down on the taiwan, pandemic, that began on china, china stealing u.s. r&d. what was your thought about all this? >> chinese media thinks everything xi xinping does is scribingtry. i thought biden was a little soft on him. i tell you this i do not believe biden backed down on taiwan. i would like to see him do more in a

rebecca grant, a national security and military analyst on, and she talked about what these riots showne itch. >> this tells me that china's she jinping's got problems -- xi jinping's got problems. now this covid policy has caused riots. this riot was a combination of a wage protest and protests over the lockdowns, and it makes me wonder, you know, when are we americans going to wake up to the true costs of having all this manufacturing in china? they just have a much bigger problem really than anyplace else in the world right now. and the chinese people have been watching the world cup in qatar, seeing the rest of the world is not many lockdown, but they are. that is xi jinping's policy to try to prevent the spread of covid. communism is not that good at governing. rachel: yeah, they're not very good at governing, but we're in the middle of what i have often called, will and joey, the chainification -- chinaification of america. look at the story about censorship that's related to all of this. also just look across the border at canada where they were justifying squelching the protest

rebecca morelle, is at goonhilly earth station in cornwall which is tracking the rocket�*s progress. well, meanwhile, spaceport cornwall will be allowed to host the uk's first space launch after it was grantedese activities. we have actually been undertaking things like satellite licensing in the uk for many decades.— like satellite licensing in the uk for many decades. what is going to ha en at for many decades. what is going to happen at the _ for many decades. what is going to happen at the newquay _ for many decades. what is going to happen at the newquay site? i for many decades. what is going to l happen at the newquay site? today, it is a great moment for the uk and for the civil aviation authority. they satisfied us on some key areas set out by parliament, such as safety, primarily, but also the environment. now that they have that license, they can hope that space operators can come forward and launch from the newquay spaceport. how does this work to ensure safety? if you visit cape kennedy in florida, it is a huge site. if you're watching the rockets, it is from many miles away. that is the reality of the situation. newquay is a relatively small place. it is right next to the sea.