welcome all of those days of threats perhaps not so hollow. china firing multiple muscles around taiwan at her house speaker pelosi left the island nation. chinese media saying the live fire drills are the largest ever in the taiwan strait. streaks across the sky showing the path of some of those missiles friendly over taiwan. di wants is a direct challenge of the country s free air and navigation. republicans are saying china is simply taking full advantage of president biden s weakness. speak of the chinese communist party is clearly trying to intimidate us. for all of their rhetoric about us unilaterally changing the status quo, that is precisely what they are doing. they are trying to press an advantage because they think joe biden has been projecting weakness the last 18 months. unfortunately they have reason to believe that. harris: armed services committee member senator marsha blackburn, the great state of tennessee, is in focus. we begin with senior foreign affairs
harris: china surrounding taiwan. air, water, watch. harris: yep, they hit every quarter they could possibly imagine to at least some presence in land and sea. and precision missile gnomic missile strikes in the taiwan strait. that country s air force joined by navy and it simply creating a blockade now. and the target are said to be the closest ever to taiwan s spirit and as i said to come in they were surrounded. look at them appear here the president of taiwan is urging citizens to stay on high alert as intensifies their information war and calling on the international community to help support a democratic taiwan. and critics are going after the white house for the way it is handled, the house speaker s visit to taiwan purity former assistant secretary of state told politico about arguing about pelosi s travel we made a spectacle forcing beijing to react. have we done the trip quietly as we usually do, it would have generated none of the brinkmanship that we are now s