weekend. i m not pete hegseth contrary to half the people that see me in the airport. they like to think i m pete. i m here with rachel and will and gracious enough to let me hang out on the couch this morning. that was tampa, florida, not far from orlando where i came from. rachel: am i hearing you don t like country music. you said that was from his play list. joey: that wasn t country. not even close. rachel: his play list is all country. will: he likes country. he s just messing with me. we share musical taste pretty much. we do. will: now a fox news alert. taiwan defense reported more than 70 chinese jets crossed the median line of the taiwan straight today and beijing deploying combat readiness patrols. rachel: we re not in trouble with the chinese right now, yikes. live fire drills unfolding as u.s. congressional delegation overnight doubling down on support for the island nation. got to frame the issues of taiwan as ccp is aggressive for a authoritarian communist
found him guilty. could be that it s a jury in austin and get out of austin. i don t know but i m really interested and want to know all the facts of the case. joey: i concur and we re heated because we ve had two hours of liberals attacking guns rather than the decay of our society. rachel: that s right, joey. absolutely right. speaking of decay, mexico asking for china s help combating the fentanyl crisis despite the drug literally coming from the communist country. we track it, next. will: and terrifying report claiming ai could go term nay torr and take over terminator and take over the world. will: the rise of ai coming up.
america their enemy in a statement they made, but our president said they re our competitors. this is one of the problems i ve had from the beginning with the suppression of the hunter biden laptop and the fact that our president now and his family have been on the take from china and potentially compromised. it makes it very difficult to face something like this. will: couple of points. i firmly believe in the concept of peace through strength and the world has to understand and believe you will respond aggressively to any provocation and interestingly whatever we ve done in ukraine, doesn t seem to have deterred russia and not deterring china and much of what s fairly characterized at bio-partisan neocon war machine hasn t done much to deter wars and the unpredictability. the unpredictability of donald trump did keep. of the world on it is heels. i don t know what he ll do but
dollar as not their way forward. china, brazil, saudi arabia, they have a lot of money. malaysia, singapore, chili, indonesia, argentina, brazil. what are they looking at? they involve a payment currency and let s distinguish between that and a payment currency and i want to buy something from you and tender a currency and agree to accept that you re confident and give to somebody and he wills give me the goods and i give you the currency. that s the payment currency and what all the deals are about and it s a big deal. dollar being attacked from all sides and people looking for substitute and more. payments don t have the currency
cartels are producing fentanyl and in pills and powder in mass quantity and shipping to the united states. the unit united states is in a difficult position because without going to mexico and relying on the threat, we have to rely on the president to take aggressive measures to go after the cartels and degrade that fentanyl threat and that s simply not having. rachel: michael, our president should be able to talk to the chinese and chinese and say knock it off. maybe because he s compromised and too much going on he can t do that and why isn t our government doing more? the u.s. government starting with the trump administration had numerous conversations with the prc regarding the fentanyl precursors and it is being regulated in china along with the analogs but it s the precursors that china refuses to regulate and openly shipping to