house speaker is going to taiwan on this trip. the chinese spokesperson tweets a couple of them visit to taiwan by speaker pelosi would challenge china s red line and any challenge to our red line will no doubt be met with resolute counter measures. he wasn t done tweeting if u.s. fire jets escort nancy pelosi s plane into taiwan it is an invasion. pla dispose of pelosi s plane and the u.s. fighter jets and including firing warning shots and in ineffective then shoot them down. the chinese, you don t think they are going to shoot them down? it s tense. let s bring in our panel matthew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute. morgan ortagus and tom bevan real clear politics co-founder and president. morgan, you know, this is standard fare for the chinese to saber rattle but it s a little more intense than usual. it is. i think they are only going to get more aggressive in their rhetoric. and in action.
what does that send to president xi, weakness to our adversaries, and putin, right, when he did the nord stream, invaded scraping. it lays a predicate for invading taiwan. i think it s a trip that needs to go forward and extraordinary for the president of the united states to defy a speaker of the house to travel to taiwan and a sign of support tore that country. sandra: congressman, the latest tweet out of chinese state media, the latest development in the story, in that it posted a tweet with this threat. u.s. fighter jet escorted pelosi s plane into taiwan, it is invasion. p.l.a., the army, has the right to forcibly dispel pelosi s plane and fighter jets, including firing warning shots and tactical movement of obstruction. if ineffective, then shoot them down. what s your response to that?
and a possible visit to taiwan. if u.s. fighter jets escort pelosi s plane in taiwan, it s an invasion. the tweet reads the pla has the right to forcibly dispel pelosi s plane and the u.s. fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction. in ineffective, shoot them down. peter doocy asked the white house about this latest rhetoric just moments ago. action it relates to the speaker s trolls, something that we re just not going to speak to right now. it s hypothetical. we re just not going to speak on her schedule. as i mentioned, we ll bring you the latest recession spin. jared bernstein and neil cavuto are here. let s begin with michael waltz, florida congressman.
bullet holes in them. we also know that there s government checkpoints set up, and they re firing warning shots at people who get too close. there are people out and about trying to buy essentials. what we re not seeing in el madi, though, is any kind of protest. it s difficult to blame people because there was obviously violence amongst those protests that turned into more something resembling riots, and so the president has taken this opportunity to paint all of the protesters with the same brush, calling them gangsters and terrorists who are foreign trained or at least foreign influenced, and so he says that when it comes to terrorists, you can t negotiate with them, you have to destroy them instead. we know that overnight, thursday into friday, there have been sounds of gunfire, quite heavy gunfire. the government describes that as counterterrorism operations. surely the opposition would describe it differently, though. state media is reporting that some 4,000 people have been deta
saw the agents, they re firing warning shots at people who get too close. the journalists also saw bodies with bullet holes in them. the remains of a gun store that had been looted. people out trying to buy the essentials, but no protests. the president, it seems, has succeeded in restoring some order to the city. but he s probably not not succeeded in actually addressing the concerns that brought people to the streets in the first place. the concerns about inequality and corruption. instead, he s sort of taken the opportunity, or taken this violence and used it to paint the protesters with the same brush calling them gangsters or terrorists trained aboard. he said with terrorists you don t negotiate with them, you have to kill them. the president described counterterrorism operations happening throughout the country. we know according to state media 4,000 people have been detained. several thousand have also been killed on both sides, and