and tony blinken visit of long in the making. um but, but i mean a very long time to organize. and tony blinken visit modi's visit to the us is certainly seen as a as a very important visit. um certainly a lot of a lot of symbolism in that the united states is really trying to reach out to india as what it sees as a potential partner in trying to manage the risks around china in the indo pacific region. um so yeah, i mean, a week that's absolutely packed with diplomacy you almost don't know where to begin on that. but but yeah, the modi trip is certainly something we're going to be watching very closely here, katherine just a day after blin visited beijing, biden referred to xi jinping as a dictator. now, on the one hand, he's provoking china and on the other hand, he's welcoming modi with open arms. what kind of message is he trying to send out? well, i think on the diplomacy piece, this is classic triangulation in diplomacy. i mean, you have seen if you were to attribute anything to the west that would look like a coherent strategy, it would be that the west has tried very ha

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i liked what i heard tony blinken say today about preparing it to defend itself in the medium and long-terms well as, but honestly, i think that the continued hard work that ukraine has been doing to make sure that its military is up to nato standards is an extremely important pathway for ukraine and one that it should continue on. brent: when talking about security guarantees for ukraine from nato, because it is not a member of nato, are we talking about arming the ukrainian military to the hilt so that it can do exactly what it would do if it were a member of nato? is that the difference here? if it were a member of nato, we would be talking about actually having soldiers on the ground. >> nato has been providing military assistance throughout this terrible war of russian aggression in ukraine. they have been providing military assistance right along and it has resulted in more and more advanced nato interoperable -- once again, it military equipment going to ukraine but it also has resulted in ukraine, i think, being a more modern armed forces and i think that is going to be very importa

>> well, first, tony blinken's statements were spot-on.not affect this outcome in russia if we wanted to. so we make it clear that we are not behind this. this demonstrates very clearly, it was a mistake to go into ukraine because they have to stop the bleeding and get out of ukraine. that is the only way it is going to stabilize inside of russia, and otherwise, it is a roll and defeat to the russian forces. >> ambassador ckurt volker, thak you for coming on. >>> and now, what caused explosion of that titan submersible. what investigators are hoping that the voice recordings will give them as far as clues. and as far as this morning, i'm going to keep moving. good-bye. are you tirered of clean cloths that just don't smell clean? downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. from big cities, to small towns, and on main streets across the us, you'll find pnc bank. helping businesses both large and small, communities an

you list merrick garland and tony blinken. what's your reason?well, first of all, tony blinken lied to my investigators when he said he never e-mailed hunter biden. we have those e-mails. either merrick garland or david weiss is lying. we need to get to the bottom of that. but if you just take a look at the evidence, david weiss was not able to indict hunter biden in dc, in california he didn't get appointed as special counsel so sure sounds like somebody else was calling the shots up in the doj and obstructing the investigation. this has been a sham investigation and kayleigh i have to wonder, do you think little navy is going to be able to sell the finger paintings for the half million dollars her father was able to sell them for? i doubt it. >> so sad finger paints given but not a last name. senator johnson you're doing great work. thank you. >> have a good night. >> kayleigh: up next, worried that big city crime is spilling out into your home town? democrats have a message for you. >> [bleep] the suburbs. because they don't know a [bleep] thi

. >> and a high stakes meeting in beijing between tony blinken and the president. we're following those major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn central. >>> we begin deep in the atlantic ocean where an urgent search and rescue operation is now under way for a missing submersible operated by a company that handles expeditions to the "titanic" wreckage off the coast of canada. we are learning five people are on board the missing sub according to the coast guard. we have new pictures of the sub before it was launched on sunday. there it is there in the water. you can see a flotation device, several of them around the edges on the ocean. the pictures were posted on a dive participant instagram page quote "had a success launch." right now officials are racing to find the missing crew members before their oxygen and power run out. paul newton joins us live from ottawa with details. paul, the difficulty of this, 2.4 miles deep, that's how far down the "titanic" is. do we know the status of the search, the size of the search area? >> we certainly know the si

but you have tony blinken responding to this.nitor the situation very closely and very carefully. we have no reason to adjust our own nuclear posture. we don't see any indications that russia's preparing to use a nuclear weapon. the president said again this week that we remain committed to the defense of nato, every inch of its territory. >> what do you make of this situation that we are in with this nuclear weapon and with russia? >> serious. any time -- whether it's bluster or not, you never really know. we take this extremely seriously. so, we have to pay attention to it. the challenge is the russians have different rules of engagement in terms of when and how they would release their nuclear weapons. in this particular case, it's a tactical nuclear weapon. in my mind, it's a distinction without a difference here. it's a nuke. and obviously our approach toward that is much more controlled. it comes from the commander in chief down to an engagement platform. what is happening in the russian sense is that's delegated down to th

they're the ones that were a lot faster to go to beijing than tony blinken was, frankly. so i do think that the level of interdependence between the two countries matters an awful lot. it is a guardrail, a more important guardrail than the ones we don't have diplomatically or from a security perspective. >> ian bremmer, always appreciate your perspective. thank you. >>> overnight, a powerful tornado hit mississippi in the towns of lewin and bey springs. this is about an hour southeast of jackson. it left behind catastrophic damage. look at this. homes and businesses ripped apart. a shelter is now open to help the affected families there. more than 50 million people in the southeast now are under severe storm threats today. >> in florida, dramatic body cam video showing the terrifying moments a sheriff's deputy was sucked into and through a drainage pipe during heavy flooding. take a look. >> the deputy was responding to one of many stranded drivers when suddenly the driver and deputy were both pulled under the water for almost 30 seconds, they struggled for air. officials

but congressional testimony released yesterday reveals former dni james clapper interviewed tony blinken had reached out to michael morell about putting together a public statement. more relevant, a former acting cia director during the obama era previously told congress his call with blinken absolutely triggered his intent to write the letter. >> and did you hear if about this interesting comments about billionaire mark cuban companies going woke is a good business model despite both companies suffering major financial losses. quoted in a pittsburgh gazette op-ed there is a reason almost all of the top 10 market cap companies in the u.s. can be considered woke. it's good business. well, this comes as target's market cap has fallen more than $15 billion with shares of approaching a 52-week low. so, money talks. saying mark cuban. >> steve: lost billions of dollars unless your idea is to get your brand name in front of the public. that worked. >> ainsley: he says most ceos have enough experience to know to just wait out the news cycle until they go onto the next one. >> brian: like the di

they did not know what would happen next, which is clear from what tony blinken also said, but they were also concerned about whether russia would go on a higher alert for its nuclear weapons. that's something they were watching very closely and determined very quickly that was not a problem. >> jonathan: and what does it mean for putin? >> martha: putin never forgets. this isn't some opposition leader, these aren't protesters in the streets this is someone who was his ally, who was his friend, for decades. and now he turned against him. putin will not forget. prigozhin better look out. >> jonathan: martha, thank you very much. >> martha: you bet. >> jonathan: the roundtable is coming up. chris christie taking the fight to donald trump like no other republican candidate, and he's getting booed along the way. he joins us next. if we want a more viable future for our kids, we need to find more sustainable ways of doing things. america's plastic makers are investing billions of dollars in new technologies and creating plastic products that are more recyclable. durable. and dependable. our g

i think the whole thing here that really worries me is not what tony blinken has said. a lot of what he said is just standard boilerplate. saidit's the body language and e optics. it's frankly the position of supplicant to the administration, as it appeared to be, to get that meeting. what did they promise to get that meeting with xi jinping, that was not clearly get to hap. and the chinese foreign minister just a couple of days tht the united states for being wholly responsible. the chinese have not changed their tune th they definitely have not changed their tune on an unprecedented peacetimn e military buildup specifically designed to take us on to subordinate taiwan. so i'm really worried. what i fear is the trninistration's trying to tur down the temperature with china, maybe because they want to focus on europe or they're gearin g for the election, but that's just asking for trouble because china can smellks inl weakness. >> well, not only that, but when you put together everything that's happened, whether it was that spy craft that you know, it just kind of hover

. >> right now, tony blinken, t secretary of state, leading with chinese officials.u think it's the right decision to engage with china in this way? >> i think the problem has been the entire biden administration has been filled with mishaps towards china. let's start with ukraine. joe biden said a small encouraging wouldn't be a problem. he said that a war in ukraine would be okay. china is funding it because we gave them the signal it was okay. and russia is killing ukrainian citizens who only want their freedom. he has made mistakes of not being tougher on the stealing of our intellectual property. letting spy balloons fly over the country unharassed. whatever he is doing is a day late and a dollar short. he should be more direct with china from the beginning. people that know me know there will be no confusion on the president of president xi, when i'm president of the united states, about what america policy is. and every day, we will be fighting to make america the winner in this competition against china. >> governor christie, we'll see you on the campaign tra

plus, anthony wink and tony blinken humiliated in beijing. we predicted this, now indicating that taiwan is up for grabs. what does that mean? and later, we'll bring the very latest from the north atlantic, where a desperate search is now under way for a submersible. and that is that went down to actually see the titanic and its five passengers who were on their way to the titanic at the bottom ofon't the ocean floor. but first, let us recap. joe biden's very troubling anotr weekend that began with yet another bizarre reference to lying. >> dog face, pony soldiers.. take a look. n >> now, some of you know, i'dy usually come down and say hi, dog, or they tel mowl there'sin a storm coming in. is that right? >> is still is that stille the deal? h don' that's the truth. now, don't make a lie as that's that scene in the john wayne movie. >> don't make me a dog lion pony soldier. >> all right. it just is cringeworthy. every time, without exception. anyway, a short time later seemed to completely malfunction at the safer community summit . this was

>> i think what you heard tony lincoln say -- tony blinken say is that tensions were rising in this dangerousween the u.s. and china. his mission to beijing was meant to try to stabilize those tensions. clearly, the chinese invitation showed things were getting out of hand. i guess the question now is, we have stabilized things. it seems like there is going to be normal, diplomatic interactions. can there be some kind of meeting of the minds that can make this stabilization more sustainable over the long term? we have not really heard -- this was the first trip secretary of state had not been to china in five years, but we had not heard how it is that they are going to find a new balance and the relationship or make progress that can serve as a basis for more sustained, productive interaction. >> despite that, president xi said they had made progress. what does that mean exactly? >> i think it is important that this diplomatic cadence starts. i think there will be a number of visits we will see coming on different subjects. it gives the prospect for sitting down and working through some probl

companies, tech companies, bankers in the weeks prior to the blinken visit than they did about tony blinkenou said okay, 30 minute meeting. half of that meeting is taken up in translation. so it was a 15 minute meeting. it is a lot of little microaggressions chinese do. they will not let bling ken until very last minute they meet with the chinese president. when he meets with the chinese president he is kept in the waiting room for a while. he has basically what amounts to a photo-op. they don't care. the chinese are signaling what they're concerned with is their economy, investment in china, manufacturing in china by american manufacturing companies and they figure, well you know what? the elon musks of the world and the jamie dimons of the world they will take care of the biden administration. we'll not worry about that so much. even when they made their statement, what did they say? america, you don't really understand china. you're making a lot of mistakes about china. when you come around we can have a better relationship. stuart: if we were to adopt a hard-line on china to, just suppo

dmytro anopchenko, have made progress, but one visit will not solve all issues with that phrase tony blinkenribed the visit to the heavenly host, because on the one hand, this was really a breakthrough, if only because the schedule of the meeting with which the head of the state department had been scheduled until the last day in the work program of the head of the state department had hopes and hints, but even in the evening before the last day of the visit, journalists were sent a schedule in which there was no of these negotiations, and the chinese leader was clearly waiting for the results of the conversation between the americans and other officials before agreeing. well, on the other hand, all issues cannot really be resolved in one visit well, a lot of contradictions have already accumulated between washington and the left. this is important for you and me. do you remember how many fears there were that the prc , following iran, could start supplying weapons , drones or military technology to russia, this would seriously complicate the situation at the front . well, now it is clear th

secretary of state tony blinken met with the china president xi jinping today in beijing. >> the atmosphere >> you just said that china did not agree to military line of talks. did xi jinping just say "no"? >> it's a work in progress. >> it's every parent's worst nightmare. >> holiday weekend celebrations in cities have been torn apart by gunfire. >> several people have died in a series of shootings. >> i was pleading for help. i thought that i was going to die. ♪ ♪ >> jericka: in our new series we explore one reason the country is facing a shortage of ob-gyns and the impact it could have on your health. >> the criminalization of providing medical care is the primary driver. ♪ ♪ >> we will introduce you to the program increasing diversity in classical music, and meet the young harpist playing her way to success. >> it allows me to express myself in ways that sometimes words can't. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jericka: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this juneteenth holiday. i'm jericka duncan in for norah. we begin with some breaking news and the desperate search for

masterful he was on the world stage and what a contrast to today to seeing the secretary of state tony blinken kowtowing to president xi and the chinese. i disagree with monica. i think donald trump failed to answer the question about the suburban women voters. his answer was i have great polls. that's not good enough. he went into a long saga about the stolen 2020 election. no one wants to hear that. we for 2024. those suburban women are disenchanted. >> monica, listen to it sound ever donald trump talking about china and russia. >> for 4 years they didn't invade taiwan. they never talked about. very few discussions it. for 4 years, russia never even thought about it. putin and i had a very good relationship. a business relationship. he knew he could not go into ukraine. i told him strongly you can't do it and he never did. >> monica? >> president trump along with president reagan and nixon before him was a master of the madman theory. you want an american president who projects absolutely strength and perceived as just crazy enough by our enemies that they will not act against america's inte

dima tony blinken, judging by the headlines of the agencies , commented today on the security guaranteesne , at what stage is everything here ? who knows understands that this is a serious structure . well, what blinken said in the plan. he spoke first of all about ukraine, he spoke and spoke about the wagnerites. and to finish this topic. he said that the story of the wagners is us, it is a manifestation of russian failure, and the way he expressed it is a measure of how much even russian society is already tired of the war, of what is called ieds in russia and of those failures that are on at the front and by and large, as far as i understood from the words of the state secretary, if people who were loyal to the kremlin started to rebel, then just imagine what is actually happening inside, that is, the bottom of the iceberg, a large part that we do not we see a good message, a strong message, and blinkin specifically said this today when he was asked to comment on the situation, but regarding the security guarantee for ukraine, yes , regarding the security guarantee for ukraine , it is

and anthony wink extent tony blinken humiliate in the beijing now taiwan is up for grabs. the latest from the north atlanta where a search is under way for a submersible and that is within down to seat titanic and 5 passengers on the way at the b. ocean floor. first let us recap i don't biden's troubling weekend that began with another reference to lying, dog face, pony soldiers. take a look. >> some of you know i come down and say hi they tell mow there is a storm coming in. is that right? is that still the deal? >> that's a truth don't make a lie. >> that seen in yawn wayne don't make me a dog faced lying pony soldier. >> he just is cringe worthy every time without exception. later biden completely malfunctioned at the safer community summit in connecticut which is a joke biden has done absolutely nothing to make any american city or town safer. but did end with a proclamation dedicated to the late queen of england. god safety queen. >> all right. god safety queen man. [music] >> must have airose the b. paper that says exist left and right. no one knows why he ended with

>> i think this is one of the things that tony blinken is probably working on hard during this visitlow-up -- and in follow-up visits. one thing china said they wanted to do in this meeting was established a set of so-called guidelines for the bilateral relationship. what are some things we can agree not to do. so i think the chinese have shied away from the use of guardrails in terms of military to military encounters. they preferred safety nets because they feel guardrails is a u.s. containment strategy in the asia-pacific region so whether they can find common language and a set of practices and principles that would help make this tense situation more productive bowl between the military's think time will tell. it might not happen at this visit but i think it is one thing that will work towards. haidi: the economic narratives, especially when it comes to china, has changed. the reality is from the beginning of the year the hopes of the big rebound of the resurgence of china's economy has not played out as hoped. has it changed the tone of these conversations? does it give washing

milley there and the white house -- look, you see vice president there, and the secretary of state tony blinken there as well, and it is interesting, because they are rolling out the red carpet as the indian prime minister is about to arrive at the white house as there is controver around it, and some members of the president's own party are boycotting it. >>> and we are watching for major decisions from the supreme court from affirmative action to lgbtq rulings and other key cases that could unfold. we are watching all of that here on cnn "news central." >>> and so it is a all-out search for that submarine there. and one rov has reached the ocean floor and begun the search. the search is growing more desperate as the experts believe that the men on board will likely run out of oxygen today. >> several vessels are playing a major role in the urgent search and medical personnel are moving to the search site now, and joining a group of the coast guard and research are vessels there in the area. >> and cnn are learning that there were numerous safety concerns raised about the oceangate years ago i

you have already seen tony blinken, the secretary of state, go on the air saying look, this was entirelyutin's own doing. had he not invaded ukraine, he wouldn't be in this situation. and in fact, he's right. i mean, this is the first challenge, as steve said, that we have seen in 23 years. and it would not be occurring had president putin not entered into a war that his own troops couldn't execute on. >> he brought it on himself, putin, because he went into ukraine unprovoked. steve, i want to ask about prigozhin. he's claimed, look, this was not a rebellion, this was a march of justice, but he took out two helicopters and a plane, russian military equipment. and now, you're hearing that they're not going to charge him. is that even close to a possibility? they might kill him instead? >> yeah, we have to be careful not to look through a western lens on this. there's no rule of law in russia. putin is going to do whatever putin wants to do. the interesting fact is we still don't know where prigozhin is. there is a theory that it might actually benefit putin to have some uncertainty about

the words you used should have come from tony blinken not from our secretary of defense.ight, he is the secretary of defense and taking his order from the president, the white house, whoever is running it these days and showing a message that we don't want to rattle cages, we understand that, i get that. and i am reminded of teddy roosevelt, speak softly and carry a big stick. i'm wonder where the big stick is, we mean what we say. >> i don't think it's there. i don't think it's their philosophy, the strategic ambivalence. they don't want to cause problems. sometimes in the world when you're facing an an adversary like the russians or chinese and you have to play tough and hard and there's risk to this. we understand that. risk is the province of war and national government and national security and they have to play hard ball and they're not doing that and the consequences are astounding to me. all it does with an adversary, push the envelope, push, push, push, and we need to push back and we haven't done it. neil: do you think they follow the debt ceiling fight and back

washington post," and the washington establishment seem to be or do you think at the end of the day, tony blinken>> there are no deliverables here and we talk about shandong coming to washington we are talking about talking. and while we talk about talking we delay imposing those measures that are important such as the long expected executive order prohibiting investments into china's military companies in the technology sector. those are things we absolutely need to do. we need to start imposing costs on the communist party for fentanyl. we need all sides of things and we are not taking those measures to add those obvious threats to us. americans are dying and we need to take immediate action and by talking about talking about talking we are not taking that action. >> blinken became the first cabinet member to meet in china. thank you so much for joining us joining us. >> thank you, carley and todd. >> carley: americans are celebrating juneteenth the day that enslaved after americans learned of their freedom. >> fox news contributor almeida king is next. ahhh! icy hot pro starts working instantl

tony blinken appearing today on "morning joe" was asked about putin's weaknesses. >> you had a directhority from prigozhin. >> does a weakened vladimir putin and a divided russian military help ukraine? >> to the extent that moscow is distracted by its own internal divisions, that may help. to the extent the wagner forces themselves are no longer on the front lines, that could help, because they have been effective. they literally throw people into a meat grinder of putin's own making. that's had some affect. >> joining me now is leon panetta, former defense secretary and cia director in the obama administration, former white house chief of staff to president clinton and i should say in welcoming you, happy birthday, mr. secretary. thanks for spending part of that birthday with us. >> thank you, andrea. i've reached the stage when i don't count anymore. >> you may not be counting, but we had a whole segment talking about the age issue with joe biden. you are a walking advertisement in defiance of that issue. congratulations. >> thank you. >> let's start with whatblinken. he talked abo

one of the other criticisms i have of the biden administration is tony blinken on sunday said that thees goal is to help the ukrainians push the russians out of the territory that they have gathered, and that they have invaded since 16 months ago since back in february. i hope he misspoke, i've not seen any clarification of that. we should be supporting the ukrainians, to include crimea and donbas and if that is a biden position, i think that is the absolute wrong position. we should be helping our friends liberated their entire country. >> congressman, i do want to turn back to the united states. you have been, obviously a fierce critics of trump's handling of these classified documents. i wonder what your reaction was when you listened to the audio tape of him discussing it out bedminster? >> look, it is sickening to hear the former leader of the free world being callous and disregarding his responsibility to protect secrets that men and women, people like my old colleagues that have put their lives on the line in order to collect. the fact that he was sharing information that is in

in fact, tony blinken had made this comment, that some nuclear armed country, and this isn't a contest, like we were just talking to. this is a competition between far-right people who wanted to defeat ukraine, and more far-right people who want to defeat ukraine. and that's part of it. the people who are challenging vladimir putin are people who think that the russian military has not been aggressive enough in its prosecution of the war in ukraine. so, in ukraine, what they are worried about is that if putin does look weak, and he's gonna come back and look strong, what does he do? one option is to do more here, sent more of these drones and, sent more of the hypersonic missiles that we are very frequently here in ukraine. so the fear is that if he wants to show he's tough, it's going to happen here. for now, the ukrainians are sitting back and watching, saying, see, they are not in control of their own country. and the point that you make with navalny earlier is important. the ukrainians are playing on the fact that there are a lot of russians who do not support vladimir putin. and t

tony blinken just left china and part of the intention was to ease tensions between the nations.china is responding? >> well, they have a stark response and in it, foreign ministry spokesmen said the remarks seriously contradict basic facts and violate diplomatic etiquette and infringe on china's political dignity which is an open political provocation and strong words coming from china. president biden had indicated over the weekend that he hoped to meet with the chinese president with the months to come and the last time they met was in the summit late last year and the question now is whether that would continue to hold in the weeks and months to come. kate? >> priscilla vaalvarez travelin with president biden. >>> they overturned gender-affirming care for trans youth. the 2021 law violates the u.s. constitution and that it cannot be enforced by state officials. in george a the state's election board dismissed the years' long investigation by fulton conduct during the 2020 election. the board said it found no evidence of conspiracy. donald trump had baselessly accused election

amy: as secretary of state tony blinken goes to china, u.s.china relations and other issues on the discussion, russia has fired a fresh volley of missiles on ukraine's capital. earlier today, explosions rang out across kyiv where ukraine's military claims it shot down six hypersonic missiles, six cruise missiles, and two reconnaissance drones. the daytime attacks came as seven african heads of state led by south african president cyril ramaphosa visited kyiv in a bid to kick-start peace talks between ukraine and russia. meanwhile, top pentagon officials called thursday for u.s. allies to continue pouring weapons into ukraine. speaking from a meeting of the ukraine defense contact group in belgium, defense secretary lloyd austin asked allies to "dig deep" to provide ukraine with air defense systems and more ammunition. joint chiefs of staff chair general mark milley acknowledged ukraine's military is suffering heavy losses as it presses a counteroffensive against entrenched forces in eastern ukraine. >> there are several hundred thousand russia

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>> gillian: secretary of state tony blinken wrapped a presser in which he appeared to confirm china hasbeen operating a spy base inside cuba or trying to and it is part of this broader effort by the communist party to ramp up espionage against foreign countries. take a look at the statement, given to fox news by a biden administration official on saturday. they say the people's republic of china conducted an upgrade of its intelligence connection facilities in cuba in 2019. this is well-documented in the intelligence record. an issue this administration inherited. now, this statement like i said was given to us saturday. two days prior national security spokesperson john kirby was on tv, he shot down reporting that this base even existed all together. listen. >> i'm saying -- i'm saying we have seen the report. it's not accurate. we are focused on making sure that we can mitigate any threats from china in the region. >> gillian: asked about the claim the biden administration "inherited this issue" former dni john ratcliffe said it is not true. >> look, we took an incredible inventory of

secretary of tate tony blinken is enroute to china for a casual meeting with top officialses in beijinga asia and in our own backyard. that includes the chinese spy base in cuba revealed by the "wall street journal" weeks ago that sits less than 100 miles from the coast of florida. congressman carlos jimenez represents south florida and sits on the china select committee. we'll get his thoughts in our next hour of "fox news live" at 4 p.m. eastern. see you then. arthel: yeah, that sounds very interesting. lots of needles to thread there, if you will. i want to go back to the ice skating story. i thought that was a wonderful package there. mike: indeed. arthel: it's good to see everybody getting on the ice. there's space for everybody everywhere, in my opinion. there you go, mr. mike, how about we do another hour at 4 p.m. eastern? mike: look forward to it. thanks for having me. arthel: thank you. and we're back at 4 p.m. eastern. "the journal editorial report" is up next. ♪i br 30g ♪ uh... here i'll take that. -everyone: woo hoo! ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein, one gram of

state department has announced tony blinken's plan to leave friday for a trip to china, the first by secretary of state since 2018. in february, china put forward a 12-point peace plan to end the war in the ukraine. we are joined now by gilbert achcar, professor of international relations at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london. his most recent book is titled "the new cold war: the united states, russia and china from kosovo to ukraine." here richly wrote an article for truth out headlined avoca washington is obstructing the path to a political settlement in ukraine." in his recent le monde piece is headlined "a cold war by any other name: there's been much debate over the definition of the term 'cold war' but one thing's for sure: we're in one now." welcome back to democracy now! if you can start off with that issue that is on the table right now, this 12 point chinese peace plan. talk about how the u.s. media and u.s. government characterized it to my talk about what you feel is being missed. >> first of all, good morning. thank you to you and to n

if china wants to play ball, that is great, but that is not just about tony blinken, it is about making sure that china understands that it can have a peaceful rise but not on any term, not while it continues to be aggressive and genocidal and threatening. >> and hr mcmaster, former president trump's national security adviser, said that bli blinken's trip could project a degree of workness saying that we're working on china's terms. we'll get in to that in a moment. >>> as we mentioned, secretary of state antony blinken will hold a news conference a short time from now. we'll bring you that live when that begins. >>> new this morning, we're seeing first images after a massive tornado struck a town in mississippi. it left behind catastrophic damage. you see some of that there. homes, buildings torn apart. today more than 50 million people across the southeast are under severe storm threats. t dare ve derek van dam is in the weather center. what are the threats today? >> where the tornado occurred last night in jasper county, they are still under a tornado watch and threatened by very act

chinese that included the ci director bill burns, nationa security adviser jake sullivan and finally tony blinkenuntry in th world. trump, on the other hand you know, he's a guy who embrace kim jong-un. he embraced mbs, is the guy wh -- putin this, the guy wanted t blackmail zelenskyy. he's the guy who wanted to get out of nato. he was a foreign polic disaster from beginning to end because he does not care about the u.s. or u.s. nationa interest and nothing of course shows that quite as much as hi abuse of classified document and his taking of national secrets and pretending tha they are his own >> let's listen to what donald trump said tonight about saudi arabia >> we have lost saudi arabia they are friends of mine they're great people the crown prince and the kin -- >> let's listen to what donald trump said tonight about saudi arabia >> we have lost saudi arabia they are friends of mine they're great people the crown prince and the king, i get along with som incredibly they would do anything, they are great great people >> so the murderer is a great, great person according t donald trump >> he

with tony blinken heading over to beijing right now and with biden likely to meet xi jinping for a veryficant summit with apec, it's critically important that both of those issues are on the agenda they can't just be talking about taiwan and semiconductors. we'll be in a lot of trouble if that's all they discuss. >> call me skeptical, i find it hard that governments can corral this technology in an effective way, even if they are asked to by the very creators. >> i'm not sure if they're really being asked to. i think the very creators are spending 99% of their time and resource and head space just on building it as fast as they can and making sure they're in a better position than their competitors. it's such a dog eat dog entrepr entrepreneurial, creative, destructive environment. i want to make sure every head of state, every cabinet minister i speak with six months ago were not discussing or asking about ai now they all are >> do any of them understand it? by the way, sam altman did go to capitol hill a few times musk will talk about it. there is at least some -- you don't typically

. >> i think work on is tony blinken's visit. i think that is important.onship is not where it needs to be. and that was not a good development. i think it just requires work not just with the saudis but the uae kuwait and bahrain. >> such a fascinating situation. thank you so much, sir. >> thanks. >>> former vice president mike pence now and former new jersey governor chris christie both officially in the race for the white house. how they plan to take on their former ally turned rival donald trump and how his growing legal troubles may play into all of it. that's next. what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine linines in 1-week, deep wrinknkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogegena® as someone ling with type 2 diabetes, i want to keep it real and ta about some risks. with type 2 diabetes you have up to 4 times greater risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. even at your a1c goal, you're still at risk ...which if ignored could bring you here... ...may put you in

. >> martha: i want go back to tony blinken's words. the secretary state. as gillian pointed out, he's headed to china for high level talks. so this is a very important element of what they're going to need to discuss. he said u.s. experts assess that our diplomatic efforts have slowed down this effort by china regarding cuba. what does that mean? what is going on over there right now? >> well, i don't know. i don't know what to make of that. that seems unlikely given the reporting of the "wall street journal" from last week. seems unlikely that they slowed it down. maybe it's six times as bad and it's actually five times as bad. remember this administration's policy with respect to cuba. the policy was to give them money and they'll behave better. they got the cuba policy wrong, the china policy wrong and now you can see them coming together threatening security of the united states of america. whether diplomacy has helped or not i can't tell you but it's not helped enough. >> martha: when you take a step back and look at the big picture, you have this far

>> well, i was so proud that my boss, secretary of state tony blinken, in a speech in finland yesterdaybership in nato, made clear that diplomacy is a path russia could choose, and every minute of every day the american government stand ready to advance the path of diplomacy. but instead, russia is advancing the path of aggression. what i thought was particularly important that secretary blinken emphasized yesterday, is that we're going to make sure not only that the ukrainian people win this war and survive, but that they thrive. and that when they win, it will be the biggest endorsement of political democracy and free market economy in this part of the world in 100 years. and you have to take a step back and look at this from a historical perspective, michael. 30 years ago the soviet bloc fell apart, 26 countries emerged out of the rubble of the soviet bloc. some were successful, like poland. the baltic states. some were weaker and victimizable like ukraine and moldova and others. and as you can see in the case of ukraine, we're victimized and we are committed to a path of making sure

but certainly it wasn't the best timing but, i've known tony blinken a lot of years.saying, the hard part out loud, that you are not supposed to say. >> during these summits, or near summits like this, you generally want to tone down the rhetoric to give it the best chance of success. >> what are the chances of them still having the meeting perhaps at aipac in november? >> i think both sides want that but you know, we will have to see. >> you've served under six presidents. i'm sure you've seen moments when presidents have said things whether at a fundraiser or not on the teleprompter that have messed you up but what are some of the most challenging things that you have faced, would it be osama bin laden? >> three events really defined a big part of my career, as a cia officer, doing the program that defeated the soviets in afghanistan in the 1980s, and then our campaigns, to disrupt and dismantle and ultimately defeat al qaeda between 2007 and 2015. and the raid that brought justice to osama bin laden. there's also a chapter on how we might posture ourselves to fail

if you continue this for, as we heard tony blinken, the secretary of state say today, this was his own making. this was a frankenstein that the russians created. neutralize it, now focus on what you are doing internally and forget the war in ukraine. >> forget the war in ukraine. that is exactly right. pull your troops out of your neighbor's country. your russian forces have no business in a neighboring country. pull them out. they are losing. they have not been able to make the games that they look for. putin is now wounded. he's less credible. he may look for some way out. that's, in the end, eamonn is how this is going to end. when putin decides he cannot win on the battlefield. for whatever reason, and he looks for a way out. that is the time when he gives that up that there will be possibility for negotiation with ukrainians. >> from a diplomatic standpoint, is there a care that the united states can dangle in front of vladimir putin to end this war sooner rather than later? >> there is. has you, know we have a lot in the united states in europe. a broad coalition of nations aroun

i think the biden administration, tony blinken sent an email to state department employees today acknowledgingbut saying they have already taken steps to address a lot of them i don't think this is fundamentally going to change the biden administrations accounting of what really is one of the worst marks of the administration. they offer a robust defense but don't seem to budget mucoff of it. ali: michael, thank you for joining us. ♪ geoff: as colleges and universities digest yesterday's supreme court ruling that effectively ended affirmative action, schools are left to grapple with how to revamp their admission policies to ensure diversity of their campuses. william brangham takes a look at these implications and how some colleges say they'll ensure diversity remains a top priority. william: geoff, with admissions officers no longer able to take race into account, colleges and universities will need to adopt other approaches if they want to build a diverse student body. for some perspective, we're joined by jeff selingo. he's a writer who's covered higher education for years. he's the author,

. >>> secretary of state tony blinken has been able to win china's agreement to come to beijing this weekend, after the u.s. canceled that original trip over the chinese spy balloon incident. he will be the first secretary of state to visit china since 2018. the first cabinet secretary since 2019. it will be a critical effort to reopen communications china has broken off, especially military to military communications. since then speaker nancy pelosi went to taiwan last august. the many topics at issue between the two countries will be china's active program of cyberattacks against the u.s. joining me now is the director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. there's a new report that several u.s. federal government agencies have been hit in a major cyberattack. what do we know? >> yeah. it's a software that federal agencies and companies across the world use. we put out an advisory about this last week. we are responding to it. these vulnerabilities are common in software. our job is to work with businesses to ensure they have the resources and tools to mitigate th

intentional offense and a sign of disrespect just after president xi jinping gave audience to tony blinkeni is always handing out, you know, meetings with one of the most powerful people on planet earth. so they hope that they can -- they hope that everything hasn't been totally unraveled by this comment and this offense, but no one can be totally sure because it's all depending on xi jinping's personal reaction. >> we'll see that in the coming days. of course president biden has framed his foreign policy as really democracies versus autocracies, hence china being such a focus. and, you know, india is a nation that for which the u.s. has had to sort of cozy up to because they see india as a bulwark to china, but also let's be clear it's a pretty problematic democracy with human rights organizations really charging prime minister modi of almost a terror campaign at times against the muslim population there in india. he's being hosted for not just a white house visit today but a state dinner. john, give us a sense to your sources what are they hoping to accomplish today, and what they recogn

secretary of state tony blinken today called the whole series of events extraordinary, believes it indicates that cracks are emerging in putin's rule. the very latest now from cnn's sam kiley live from london. sam, we're watching russia closely, ukraine, also events in belarus. any developments to indicate to us what's actually happening right now? >> reporter: well, jim, i think the most stunning development so far is an absence of any kind of news about the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner mercenary group. as you rightly point out there, he was in command of, although not present in, necessarily, a column of military, his military that got within 200 kilometers, 125 miles of moscow, and then suddenly there was this intervention from lukashenko from belarus. and we saw pictures of the mercenary leader leaving rostov-on-don, ostensibly for exile and safety, critically, in neighboring belarus whilst his troops were again, as part of this deal, sent back or returned themselves to their camps inside occupied ukraine. but we haven't seen any evidence that he's turned up