whirlwind of action on capitol hill this wednesday morning. you could say it s a congressional hearing palooza on a slate of urgent topics from the origin of covid, the safety of air travel, the u.s. evacuation of afghanistan, and threats from around the world. that last topic is the focus of a hearing set to begin any second with the senate intelligence committee. we ll hear testimony from the nation s top intel chiefs including dni avril haines, cia director bill burns and fbi director chris wray. we can expect them to dive into a number of topics including new threats from china, questions about mishandling classified documents and concerns over domestic extremism. our team is monitoring this closely. meanwhile, in a different senate hearing, acting administrator of the faa is just moments away from testifying after weeks of disturbing headlines from the not so friendly skies, including a united passenger recently caught on camera attacking a flight attendant and threate
of the air space in north america. there s been reports that pro-ukrainian groups were responsible for sabotaging the in order stream pipeline. i want to hear what the u.s. intelligence officials say about that. and then on this story about this awful tragedy in mexico raises fundamental questions about what the mexican government is doing about these increasingly powerful drug cartels, which after all are fueled by u.s. consumption of drugs and what the u.s. government is doing to try to help that, what are the tensions in that relationship? we don t have time for me to tell you all the things i m interested in. those are some of them, lindsey. so similar question to you, ken mentioned so many of them, particularly when it comes to china and that suspected spy balloon. what are the questions that senators should be asking here? lindsey, obviously this is a rarity. you rarely see public hearings from the eyes from the house intelligence committee, and you rarely see these senior
reagan administration where the reagan administration had real policy measures designed to confront the soviet union and deter soviet expansion all along the way they conducted very high value, bilateral negotiations which yielded arms control agreements that to this day are of value to us. if you don t have concrete policy measures, shoring up our allies with military support. if we don t insure that taiwan is such a hard target that china would never dream of attacking and same with ukraine we fail. sanctions won t work. it makes some in this administration makes them feel like they re doing something but it is not enough. dana: thank you so much for your thoughts this morning. the call with putin is underway now. bill: if you cut off international banking to putin and his cronies, if you cut off the construction of the in order stream pipeline the natural gas stops and the potential to go to western europe and germany in over
vladimir putin the kgb operateive and cloak and dagger espionage has used those effectively. interfering in elections. solar winds attack against us and allowing the russian criminal cyber groups to homestead on russian territory and attack our critical infrastructure. an arms control negotiator used to say the soviets used to put the bolder in the middle of the road and charge us to remove it. putin could reduce the effectiveness of these cyberhacking groups but he will want a price for doing that. he wants to be able to invade countries like ukraine and use banned chemical weapons and shoot down airliners without facing retributions and go to talk a pawn off the chess board but what s something in return. bill: he got the in order stream pipeline. it doesn t matter what will