john. >> john: let's bring in charlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor and john kirby saying where is the drama, that may go down in pop culture alongside clara peller's "where's the beef." >> it's incredible, and silver lining, delighted the biden administration seems to be waking up to the fact that china is our number one global enemy or competitor in the world, and that's a very important step. but then to listen to him sit there and try to back pedal after we reached this impasse, this verbal impasse and back pedalling reveals nothing but weakness and cowardice, quite frankly, and david is exactly right, at a moment where the united states has to be showing absolute clarity and using the strength that we have in order to stand up to a regime that wants to destroy or at least displace the united states as leader of the free world. >> sandra: and also, charlie, hi to you, by the way, significance that while kirby was updating from the white house, secretary of state antony blinken was speaking live saying china should not engage in escalation but nancy pelosi is expected to make

now, the spokesman for the national security council, john kirby has addressed the possible a trip of nancy pelosi to tie one. he says, this is not unprecedented. pointing out that in 1997 that then speaker newt gingrich visited taiwan without any incident. and even this year, some members of congress have travel to the island that john kirby makes absolutely clear that any decision whether to visit taiwan or not is up to the speaker herself . and any confirmation must come from the speaker or 1st officers. this is what kirby had to say, or constitution beds a separation of powers. this is well known to the p r. c. given are more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations. the speaker is the right to visit taiwan and speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized though that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents any change in us policy. the u. s. one china policy remains, he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president sheet

as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized though that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents any change in u. s. policy. the u. s. one china policy remains. he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president she last week in which president biden made absolutely clear that the u. s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and also, and changing when it comes to its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says, china is adapting a threatening posture and his express concern about any misunderstandings as he put it that could arise out of this heightening of tension on for a short break here now to sierra, when we come back, the u. s. government promises more than a 1000000000 dollars to help people affected by extreme weather, but many is too little too late. and the al jazeera exclusive will take you on patrol with nigeria, security forces, as they hunt for oil feet, sport. ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world copies on its way to the catholic group. your travel pac

john kirby has addressed the possible a trip of nancy pelosi to ty one. he says this is not unprecedented. pointing out that in 1997 that then speaker newt gingrich visited taiwan without any incident. and even this year, some members of congress have travel to the island that john kirby makes absolutely clear that any decision whether to visit taiwan or not is up to the speaker herself . and any confirmation must come from the speaker or 1st officers. this is what kirby had to say, or constitution beds a separation of powers. this is well known to the p r. c. given are more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations. the speaker is the right to visit taiwan and the speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized though that even should not c pelosi decided to visit taiwan . this in no way represents any change in us policy. the u. s. one china policy remains, he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president she last week in which pre

kabul john kirby has addressed the possible trip of nancy to taiwan. she says this is not unprecedented. pointing out that in 1997 new english visited taiwan without any incident. even this year so members of congress have traveled to the island. john kirby says any decision is up to the speaker herself and any confirmation must come from the speaker or her staff. this is what he had to say. >> this is well known to the prc, given our more than four decades in diplomatic relations. the speaker has the right to visit taiwan and the speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. >> he emphasized that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan, this in no way represents any change in u.s. policy. the u.s. one china policy remains and this was addressed to president biden's phone call with president xi last week. the u.s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says china is adept in a threatening posture and he has expressed concern about any misunderstanding that could

let's go to john kirby now. excuse me. stand by, john kirby speaking. let's listen. >> poses an active threat to u.s. persons, interests and national security. president biden has said that we will not allow half -- afghanistan to be a safe haven for terrorists. we met that commitment, this action demonstrates without american forces on the ground in afghanistan in harm's way, we're able to identify and locate even the world's most wanted terrorists and take the action to remove him from the battlefield. that is the definition of this mission. one we talked a year ago, over the horizon counter terrorism capability. what we did this past weekend is a perfect clean example of what that capability looks like. now, on to taiwan as you have all seen the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, arrived in taiwan earlier this morning east coast time. as we have said, the speaker has the right to visit taiwan. the speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as has many members of congress over the years, including this year. this trip was the sp

that was john kirby they're - into a crisis or conflict. that wasjohn kirby they're speaking to the bbc a little earlier. earlier i spoke to asia security expert bonnie lin. she told me how taiwan is likely to respond to the chinese military drills. there are some of the exercise areas that are even closer than 16 km. and the real question is, if china starts entering into taiwan's airspace and waters, it's how taiwan may react. it may be from taiwan's perspective, if they do not respond, it could set a precedent for china to operate close to taiwan. but if they do respond, there is a real risk of escalation. at what point do you see the us getting involved, as well? so, i think, if china starts operating closer and closer to taiwan, i think taiwan will likely be cautious and probably not engage in significant activity to strike the chinese first or any such activities, as if china starts flying over taiwan airspace. but, as we see the two militaries start coming even closer and operating closer and closer together. there is a risk of poten

some members of congress have traveled to the island that john kirby makes absolutely clear that any decision whether to visit taiwan or not is up to the speaker herself and any confirmation must come from the speaker or 1st officers. this is what kirby had to say. our constitution beds a separation of powers. this is well known to the p r c. given our more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations, the speaker, the right to visit taiwan and speaker of the house has visited taiwan before without incident. as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized so that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents any change in us policy. the u. s. one china policy remains. he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president she last week in which president biden made absolutely clear that the u. s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and also unchanging when it comes to its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says, china is adapting a threatening posture and he's express concern about

john kirby speaking there are little earlier. joining me is monica miller, our reporter who has been watching the latest developments for us. we've already seen the chinese react — warplanes in taiwanese airspace and now the foreign ministry has summoned the us ambassador to beijing, nicolas burns, to protest against nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. we are now hearing from officials waking up this morning. i cannot imagine they got much rest last night. one foreign minister has said the nature of speaker pelosi visit is vicious and they will continue to have a keen eye on this. they said they will not said ardently by and we have seenin said ardently by and we have seen in the last couple of hours, since her plane has landed, taiwan has confirmed they did see some military planes from china going over the taiwan strait, the body of water separating china and taiwan and also we have seen, on a diplomatic front, beijing is summoning us ambassador nicholas byrne to talk about theissue nicholas byrne to talk about the issue but they

the white house's national security council spokesman, john kirby, is trying to de—escalate tensions with china, reiterating that the us doesn't support independence for taiwan. here he is speaking at a press briefing just a short while ago. the united states will not and does not — will not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. at the same time, we will not engage in sabre—rattling. we will continue to operate in the seas and the skies of the western pacific, as we have done for decades, and we will continue to support taiwan. our north america correspondent john sudworth says there is a lot at stake here for the biden administration. they have been warning against the wisdom of this trip for days and weeks. now that it's gone ahead, as you heard from john kirby, they're taking a more neutral tone, as you might suggest. but those concerns remain — not over the risk of invasion, most analysts believe the risk of that for now remain small — but simply because i think the american government feels it has enough on its plate, in t

and that's by being vigilant. >> john kirby, thank you so much. live with us there from the white house, we appreciate it. >>> joining us now is the founder girlfriend trouble productions, and former anchor at abc and cbs news riina nainan and david axelrod. thank you to both of you for being here. you heard what john kirby is saying and they're hailing this as a success. it is a success. they got this guy after 21 years. but there is also a lot of questions this is raising about this guy being in kabul, david. >> yeah, there is no question about it. but i must say as i was watching john kirby there, i was thinking back a year ago to his briefings at the pentagon on the withdrawal from afghanistan and, boy, he has more of a bounce in his step today because success is better than the appearance of disorderliness and he -- and offense is better than defense and this was an offensive move. but, look, it does raise questions, how did he get there, how did he feel as you pointed out so comfortable that he stepped out on the balcony in the middle of the

john kirby made that point clear, what do you make of that messaging? >> that messaging is extraordinary week. chinese threatened the life of the president of the united states in that call and we heard threats on speaker pelosi's life. response from the united states should have been more robust and our policy, we don't support taiwan independence, taiwan already is independent and john kirby should have stated that in a different way. they are telling the chinese, go ahead and intimidate us more. >> todd: can we trust this administration to put america robust when it comes to china in light of the fact based upon media reports it appears joe biden and his family are intertwined with china and there seems to be a conflict of interest there. >> no, we can't trust president biden to put america first. todd, in that phone call with when xi jinping threatened the life of biden, he should have hung up. last week biden said he didn't think it was a good idea speaker pelosi go to taiwan, we heard china ramp up their rhetoric. biden was inviting the chinese to

. >> john kirby is the white house national security council strategic coordination communicated. -- communicator. -- their aim on -- kabul, afghanistan. he also talked about how speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan, saying president biden respects her decision to travel there. >> >> good afternoon everybody. so as the president spoke to yesterday, the united states under undertook a counterterrorism operation in kabul afghanistan on saturday at his direction, the u.s. intelligence targeted and killed ayman al zawahiri. al qaeda's leader. we know you have questions about this today and so we wanted to make sure that we had john kirby come back. he's going to talk about the specifics of that operation and the extension also of truce in yemen, which is incredibly important and any other foreign policy news of the day. with that, i give you john kirby, national national security council coordinator for strategic communications. >> it is clearly noted, if you've obviously been tracking the president's announcement yesterday that on 30 july, the united states undertook a precision counterterr

talking with john kirby a moment ago. apparently the taiwanese air force has been scrambled to warn away several dozen chinese fighters that they say entered taiwanese airspace. we're watching that right now as it develops in asia. here at home one of the f.b.i.'s most wanted on trial in texas for murdering his two teenage daughters. how the law caught up with him more than a decade on the run. this is the sound of better breathing. fasenra is an add-on treatment for asthma driven by eosinophils. it helps prevent asthma attacks, improve breathing, and lower use of oral steroids. fasenra is not a rescue medication or for other eosinophilic conditions. fasenra may cause allergic reactions. get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth and tongue, or trouble breathing. don't stop your asthma treatments unless your doctor tells you to. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection or your asthma worsens. headache and sore throat may occur. ask your doctor about fasenra. [acoustic soul music throughout] [ac

when you talk about that in fighting, we have just heard from john kirby, the us whitehouse national security spokesperson. he's just stated in his briefing there, hello, see, quote, speak for herself. when talking about supporting taiwanese independence, you have been speaking about how this corresponds to the fact that the u. s. at his, with a one china policy. but what i'd like to ask you is that biden has said that he supports palo sees actions, apparently regarding independence of ty, one as well. so why do we hear such opposite us statements about ty, pay and see? that's the thing i think we've seen so many contradictory statements, whether it's from biden, whether it's from the pentagon, which has said that this is not a good idea. even different political actors in the united states. donald trump is against this trip. congressional republicans are largely in favor of it. some congressional democrats are with her on her trip to ty, pay you, as you said, john kirby is giving a contradictory statements. although joe biden has come out and said that militarily the united states w

that's john that'sjohn kirby that's john kirby i that'sjohn kirby i want to show you the image because we have the family photo if i can call it that members of congress who have accompanied nancy pelosi on this particular visit, standing there, shoulder to shoulder with the president and her own team, is a picture of solidarity and support of one for the other but as i said a moment ago the flipside as it is a picture of antagonism as seen from the beijing perspective who have already called on the us ambassador to beijing, for a formal complaint about this meeting taking place. i've been speaking to lyle goldstein, he is director of asian engagement at defence priorities, and visiting professor at brown university, i wanted to find out from him what he made of this situation. i'm very concerned, we have seen some moves that are somewhat unprecedented, my own view is that this likely will not leave to war, but you know, i think it's here to say that, the us and china do seem to be on that kind of collision course, and this is kind of one step down that road, so i'm very, very concerne

. >> we'll get the white house response from john kirby in just a moment. first, we go to greg palkot. he joins us from london this afternoon. hi, greg. >> hi, gillian. yeah, some tough talk from china and more tough action as the exercises around taiwan continue. first the action. taiwan air force jets scrambled as chinese war planes crossed the median line in the strait separating china and taiwan. it's a key buffer zone. that was pounded by chinese artillery yesterday in addition to the dozen misses that china fired towards taiwan on all sides. china says their forces are focusing on what it takes to taiwan, a precursor of an invasion. flights and ship having been disrupted. washington add missing that the u.s.s. ronald reagan aircraft carrier group deployed east of taiwan is being held there to monitor china's actions. again, at a safe distance. secretary state blinken calling the drills a significant escalation. as house pelosi speaker wraps up her asian trip, beijing says they're sanctioning her for her provocative actions and more that will cut off a

john kirby joins us on the story this hour. right now election battles are underway in two of the biggest states. these are really important primaries happening today in new york and in florida. they are out voting. reporters are fanned out in each of those states. bryan llenas is here in new york city. phil keating is on board in florida this afternoon in the sunshine state. brian, what's going on in new york? >> martha, good afternoon. all eyes are on new york's we drawn 12th congressional district which pits two democratic leaders against one another and what has been a personal and nasty clash between once friends. representative carolyn maloney going against jerry nadler. now, maloney has questioned whether sadler is senile. maloney says she's the female candidate needed to protect abortion rights. nadler has called her gullible and cowardly for voting for the iraq war and patriot act. >> i'm the principled progressive. i cast hard votes, unpopular votes that have proven right like voting against the war in iraq, voting ag

john kirby was saying, the policy has not changed. even if there might be a visit by nancy pelosi, whiche did not confirm, that would not mean we have shifted our position, and we made that very clear to the chinese. he did also outline several respons because the chinese have suggested they might have a military response. they said maybe they would fire missiles into the taiwan strait. maybe they would have an incursion into taiwanese airspace. maybe they would step up air and military exercises. he mentioned these possibilities to say, as you heard, there's no reason for this. this would be a visit by a lawmaker, although a senior one, which has happened before, but it didn't indicate any policy change. >> there's a distinction between the legislative branch and the executive branch of the u.s. government. >> congress is independent of the executive branch. it is up to the speaker to do what she wants, and that is somethg the white house and administration have been saying from the start. they haven't given their own official view o

we go to john kirby. he's briefing. listen. >> east and southeast of the island. we condemn these actions that are irresponsible and add odds with our longstanding goal of maintaining stability across the taiwan strait and in the region. china has chosen to overreact and use the speaker's visit to increase military activity in an around the taiwan strait. we anticipate that china might take steps like this. in fact, i described them for you in detail the other day, monday. we also expect that these actions will continue and that the chinese will continue to react in coming days. the united states is prepared for what beijing chooses to do. we will not seek, nor do we want a cries is. at the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas and the skies of the western pacific, consistent with international law as we have nor decades supporting taiwan and defending a free and open indopacific. to that end, secretary austin today is directed that the aircraft carrier u.s.s. ronald reagan and her strike group will remain on station in the general area to

we'll ask john kirby. he's here. also, edward lawrence on why six months after all of these sanctions russia appears to be in the driver's seat. how is that? alex hogan on the growing threat from the nuclear power plant that has nuclear inspectors rushing to the scene. what have they discovered? further, what have they done? welcome. i'm neil cavuto. so glad to have you. a lot to get to. first, let's go to edward lawrence at the white house with how they're responding to all of these developments. edward? >> vladimir putin has 700 billion more in his pocket because of the sale of oil to other countries around the worlds. russia is making 40% more revenue from oil than a year ago. russia raked in 20.4 billion largely because of a 55% increase in exports of oil to china, but also india. >> you've seen an even more dramatic increase in india. india was hardly importing anything from russia when it comes to oil and in the course of the last four or five months, we've seen that increase from basically zero to 8 or 900,000

john kirby, actually brought you up today your name with john kirby. here's what he said. >> michael was just on and he just suggested they are trying to placate china. >> i don't know how we could've taken that away from what i had to say? is no placating china, i was civilly stating policy. i was trying to take down the tensions not to rent them up. there is no placating, i also said if you go back to my opening statement are not to be intimidated. >> brian: mike, what you think about that you said she said? >> he has tried to reassure china i think it's a nicer word to placate. he's trying to reassure china there's no need for all this rhetoric, there's no need for all these threats. the china policy is not changing in every thing is the same. as you and i know brian, we all heard president jill biden say that we are committed to defend taiwan. he mentioned the word independence one time. so that is part about why the chinese are so confused by, and what we don't want is the chinese military action either before this the speaker gets her tomorrow ni

we don't want to get ahead of anything she might have to say about the trip. >> john kirby, thank you for joining me. >> by pleasure, thank you. >> here in the u.s., voters in the conservative state of kansas voted to uphold state access to abortion services, a major victory for pro-choice groups after the u.s. supreme court overturned roe v. wade two months ago, ending federal protection for the procedure. ever since that ruling abortion has been banned in 10 states across the u.s. and restrictions have been imposed in at least four. the referendum in kansas is the first time voters have had the chance to weigh in on the issue. at the white house today president biden called the vote a decisive victory that would send a powerful signal ahead of the midterm elections in november. with more, our north american correspondent on the big bar. >> i did this deeply conservative state, this moment has gen liberal groups hope. >> it will be ok. >> they expected to vote to protect abortion rights to either be tight or not their grip -- not go their way it all. >> i am speeches there speechless

as have many members of congress including this year, john kirby emphasized so that even should nancy pelosi decide to visit taiwan. this in no way represents a change in us policy. the u. s. one china policy remains, he says, and this was addressed during president biden's phone call with president sheet last week in which president biden made absolutely clear that the u. s. policy is unchanging when it comes to taiwan and also unchanging when it comes to its relationship with china. nevertheless, john kirby says, china is adapting a threatening posture and he's express concern about any misunderstandings as he put it that could arise out of this heightening of tension. or in other developments in the us, people displaced by floods in the state of kentucky have faced another night of heavy rain battered parts of the state for days. now making rescue f, it's even more difficult. 50 bridges, a damaged or not reachable state governor says 30 people confirm to have died, but that number is likely to rise. thousands are spending another night in temporary homes. many without power is urol

that is john kirby's position. he insisted though, as well that the u. s. policy in no way has changed, it remains the one china policy, and he reiterated that this is what president biden told president she in the 2 and a half our conversation last week. saying that even if the speaker does visit, this does not change us policy one iota, but could be went on to say that china is adapting a more menacing posture in recent days. he speaks about moving military munitions closer to taiwan, greater patrols of the taiwan straits, flying aircraft over the taiwan straits, which is an unusual mood. but he says, this is all on china. there's no change whatsoever in us policy. he says this has been told to present machine by president biden during that confirmation. however, john kirby also confirmed that the speaker is travelling on a military aircraft. he also confirmed that the national security council has brief . this is the speaker and her staff about the visit as a whole. he would not go into the specifics of precisely how she was breathed. and he also says th

we watched the john kirby press conference ahead of the trip. not confirming the trip but ensuring safe travel should she at her call decide to make this trip. at one point john kirby asking the question, what's the drama after you to your point we heard this menacing rhetoric coming from china ahead of the speaker of the house's visit to taiwan? michael, you can take that. >> it's a dangerous situation when the speaker of the house and white house don't seem to be on the same page. i was very impressed when john kirby admitted yesterday that biden and nancy pelosi have not spoken about this trip. this is historic and it is dangerous and it is important. how could they not have discussed it? the answer is they don't agree. nancy pelosi has a long history of concern about human rights, dalai lama, very skeptical about china. the biden administration so far. >> sandra: she is coming off the plane now. >> let's take a look. let's hope this is the new bipartisan nancy pelosi when she gets home. >> bill: want to see if we can pick up any audio. diffi

that's one question people like john kirby never think to ask? they assume china must be bluffing, you don't have to take them seriously just like russia. they say they are going to invade ukraine if the we push ukraine to join nato, they are a gas station with the government, they are bluffing. that's what arrogance does, it blinds you to reality. the question is, is china bluffing? what if they are not? what if in response to her totally pointless trip to taiwan, the chinese decide to seize the cayman islands which are now governed by taiwan -- that could actually happen. the chinese government is already making the kind of noises you would expect it to make before doing something like that. here's a selection. >> the chinese government continued to ramp up their warnings saying it undermines china's sovereignty and security. >> we hope the u.s. officials will clearly understand the importance and sensitivity of the issue and how dangerous it would be if the visit happens. >> the chinese claim taiwan as their own and they are concerned beijing

brian kilmeade pressed john kirby on this morning. take a listen. speak of the leader of al qaeda is not in a cave or heading out in the mountains of pakistan. he's on the balcony and a capital. that al qaeda feels pretty clear up good about their presence in the country and there's more than just one guy. that's not good news for us, but the good news is he's dead. >> out there that back a little bit come awry and come i don't think they're feeling too good about being in afghanistan right now. >> really? if they were worried about it they'd be hiding in pakistan. we couldn't even find them. >> i don't think al qaeda can look at what happened over the last 48 hours and feel like afghanistan's good to be much of a safe haven for them. >> that last part is really critical. having interviewed john kirby when he was pentagon spokesperson, and it was a tender spot when you talked about how badly the plan was to pull out of afghanistan. it was a moment between the two of us and the toughness of that moment was really around how do you get our people, tha

john kirby trying to walk back the statement biden made last year to justify pulling the u.s. out of afghanistan. watch. >> president biden said what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? >> in a major way al qaeda was not playing -- let me finish. they weren't playing a major role in operations or resourcing or planning in afghanistan. we talked about the fact that al qaeda had a presence in afghanistan but small and not powerful or potent. we would still assess that to be the case. >> harris: jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst and chairman for the institute for the study of war. thank you for being in "focus." your top line thoughts when you hear admiral kirby there previously a year ago and now saying well, the numbers are small of how many terrorists al qaeda are in afghanistan. >> first of all, this is a remarkable operation that we've just seen completed by the united states and we kind of get used to expecting these operations to go as remarkably well as this one has. and that shouldn't diminish whatever the credit that's deserv

by john kirby did tell me they are going to wait for a spectacular terrorist attack in the u.s. to respond, and they think this weekends strike against al-zawahiri's proof of that. >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn, thank you. senior strategic analyst jack keane, thank you for being here. 21 years, four president. he was on your hit list at one time, al-zawahiri. how big a deal is this? >> is a very big deal. two democrat president in two republican presidents. that kind of perseverance and determination in the fact that our intel and counterterrorism professionals stayed on this target, passed it to people who were succeeding while others were tired, never gave up. yes, it's a big deal. but we have to know what it's not. it is not a vindication of the president's withdrawal decision from afghanistan and that is the reality of it. the american people can see what's happening. we turned our country over to our adversaries, the taliban. they are in control, they are harboring in an influential neighborhood with taliban leaders. >> bret: let me put up that map. this is th

at a press briefing at the white house earlier today, national security council spokesman john kirby explained the white house's position on the latest developments. the united states will not and does not — it will not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. at the same time, we will not engage in sabre—rattling. we will continue to operate in the seas and the skies of the western pacific, as we have done for decades, and we will continue to support taiwan. let's bring in the bbc'sjohn sudworth, who is here in washington. we know that this trip was intended to show american support for taiwan— but that was never in doubt, so what else does the us gained by this trip? else does the us gained by this tri - ? ~ . else does the us gained by this tri . ? . ., ., , else does the us gained by this tri?~ . else does the us gained by this trip? well, that was a concern from the administration _ trip? well, that was a concern from the administration here _ trip? well, that was a concern from the administration here all- trip? well, that was

the white house national security council spokesman, john kirby, is trying to de—escalate tensions with china — reiterating that the us doesn't support independence for taiwan. the united states will not and does not — will not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. at the same time, we will not engage in sabre—rattling. we will continue to operate in the seas and the skies of the western pacific, as we have done for decades. we will continue to support taiwan. joining me is monica miller, our reporter who has been watching the latest developments for us. great to get you on the programme. just to start with, we've already seen the chinese react with those warplanes in taiwanese guys. should we expect more of this? we have been very _ expect more of this? we have been very -- they _ expect more of this? we have been very -- they have been. been very —— they have been very clear and they are outraged. we hear discussions between president biden and president sheep last week, where he said if you play with fire, you will get burned

we're going to speak to john kirby here in minutes. "new day" continues right now. >> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. >> good morning. >> great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china's stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it's not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. >> more exclusive cnn reporting. sparking an international response, protests erupting in sudan after a cnn investigation revealed russia is plundering sue began's goal to help finance putt putt putin's war in ukraine. tell us more. >> we have known for some time about russia's project to buttress itself against the u.s. sanctions regime ptbut what we haven't been able to pin down is th

and john kirby, the lead, the national security council spokesperson. com, i would say, look, we have nothing to do with this. but if she does go, there's absolutely no reason to escalate. that was what we've been can said of us on, on monday. and then it was interesting quite from john kirby, a national security council, which is pretty explicit. he said nothing has changed. nothing has changed. we oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side. we've said that we do not support thailand's independence. there's no drama to talk to the certainly no reason for this to come to blaze. that's very, very, very concerned. but what's clear is they don't have any control over place. yeah, that's what i've pleading with trying to to see things that way, which is, which is fascinating. with this mike, there was a greater diplomatic language about pelosi and a decision to go to taiwan down bust on monday with an edit with op ads in the new york times by thomas friedman, which is widely being seen here in washington as the biden position. and its headlines why policies visit to

we heard from the national security council spokesperson john kirby who said among other things the u.s. was trying to lead by example in some ways as a responsible nuclear party. the white house announcing just yesterday that the u.s.s. ronald reagan the naval aircraft carrier strike group that's in that region in the south china sea would be extending its stay there but they were going to be postponing an icbm ballistic missile test in that area and then the bottom line that underscores all of this is the u.s. communicated, has communicated publicly and privately at all levels to the chinese that the u.s. still stands by the one china policy. in effect, nothing has changed in the way they view what is going on there but they still do stand by taiwan and wanted to make it very clear what china was doing was both provocative and irresponsible, andrea. >> now land, sea, and air. how concerning is it that china at a time it has launched a nuclear sub they say in the strait, they're firing missiles over taiwan, and 11 missiles landed in the sea of japan. commercial flights are suspended or

what john kirby says of course whatjohn kirby says here our viewers may be thinking that this sounds familiar because we have been through this when it comes to ukraine and russia and the us supporting ukraine and then russia also pushing back against this. there appears to be parallels. against this. there appears to be parallels-— against this. there appears to be parallels. there does appear to be a few _ be parallels. there does appear to be a few parallels _ be parallels. there does appear to be a few parallels here - be parallels. there does appear to be a few parallels here but . to be a few parallels here but in terms of the history, the geography, the fact that they are separated by waters here, china and taiwan, there are also significant differences, especially because most countries in the world don't actually acknowledge taiwan's independence. they have formal ties with asian, that is very different to the situation with ukraine, but as you say, this has been a concern in the west that china will be looking at the invasion of ukraine and that perhaps china will be taki

but john kirby went on to say that this is all up to china at the u. s. remains committed to dialogue. he says it remains committed to its policy, which is unchanging towards china. this does not mean any change in its policy towards taiwan. so kirby is saying that basically the u. s. is not changing anything the business by this because should that happen? doesn't change anything. and china's response is the only aspect that is creating problems around this whole trip. should it take place? all right, thank you very much. movie late is from the white house, mike, hannah. he was al jazeera life from london, still ad on the program. you and chief calls for an end to nuclear weapons warning, total annihilation is only one misunderstanding away. and they took peacekeepers a cold and his tensions clarity, soviet kosovo order. ah hello, there is a store of heat once again for europe, particularly for southern areas, but we are going to see a lot of that warmth rise up heading it's way farther north. by the mid of the week, we'll see some pretty impressive t

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i'll discuss that and more with white house official john kirby. he's standing by live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." surprisingly strong new jobs numbers are capping off what has been a big week for the biden administration. let's go straight to jeremy diamond. amid fears of a recession, the president has some momentum when it comes to the u.s. economy. at least in the short term. give us the latest. >> no doubt about it, this jobs report which the president called outstanding is more evidence that the u.s. is not in a recession. we saw the unemployment rate tick down to 3.5%. more than half a million jobs created last month. all of that painting a picture of a very strong and resilient jobs market. now of course, this strong jobs market doesn't do anything to address americans' chief concern. and that is inflation. and the president and the white house very much aware of that. we heard the president talking about americans who may still feel they're struggling december fate strong job

but at the same time, we heard from john kirby who said in his briefing, that pelosi called speak for herself with her comments about how one. so we don't seem to be getting a unified message from washington. do you expect biden, to try to coordinate a common message off to her return? that's going to be extremely difficult for anyone to do. i expect biting to drop this like a rock, as soon as she's back in the, in the us. and just try and maintain radio silence as long as you possibly can. this is yet another and a series of embarrassing moments for dividing administration that has proven incapable of managing the u. s. economy. its foreign relations have been near disastrous, the looking back to the withdrawal from afghanistan, for example, and for that matter, their handling of the conflict and ukraine. so i think he's going to try and forget about this as soon as people lead him, whether people do, let him forget about it. there's another question. do you think pelosi is going against the one china policy that was officially committed to by the u. s. in 1979 with her trip. and if

now it appears that despite the fact that nancy pelosi has gone to taiwan, the white house and john kirby and others that us state department are maintaining that the one china policy does in fact, remain intact with us. they are not backing away from that. however, we're seeing signals to the contrary, a lot of action by the united states and the lead up to today's big that i have indicated that you as the one china policy may be on the brink of being revoked. this is what we heard from a representative of the american institute in taiwan observing recent trends, the united states no longer sees taiwan is a problem in our relations with china. we see it as an opportunity to advance our shared vision for a free and open in the pacific and also as a beacon to people's around the world who aspire for a more just safe, prosperous and democratic world. now you, as the visuals insist they are not wavering on the issue of taiwan. however, it doesn't help when you have the president of united states making remarks like this. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan? if it come

so john kirby saying that israel's got the full support of the united states . what else is the white house been saying about this? well, the by that ministration is also reaching out to what it calls the relevant parties . asking them to try to calm the situation to not aggravate attentions and to try to was stop by the violence that has been erupt. ing, i'm in is in southern israel and in the gaza strip by all day on friday and into the overnight the by didn't ministration of course is are very much committed to a 2 state solution. but it has also been a very clear and we saw this when the u. s. president joe biden was in israel and occupied west bank recently that he knows that the situation is not at a place where the parties couldn't negotiate in good faith on trying to achieve a separate palestinian state. and so the president feels that his role is to try to promote trust building between the 2 parties to try to focus on economic development for the palestinians. but certainly the outreach that is coming from the by net ministration is really not going to

the chinese are the ones who are escalating this. >> john kirby from the nsc, thank you very much, sir. >> my pleasure. >> i want to bring in nbc's senior international correspondent, keir simmons and peter baker with the "new york times," who has served in moscow as well as keir, of course, most recently interviewed vladimir putin, a year ago, june, before the geneva summit. so, keir, first to you. your take. nine years is a very tough sentence. she pleaded guilty to, you know, what would have been a misdemeanor if that, back here. but this is the russian system. what is the prospect for a prisoner deal now? >> well, andrea, i think there are real prospects, but i think you can expect the kremlin to negotiate the way the kremlin does. you'll remember, you and i spoke some weeks ago after i interviewed dmitry peskov, the kremlin spokesperson and in that interview, i put to him that brittney griner was a hostage. he denied that she was a hostage and quickly segued to say, awe, but our viktor bout, who's in prison in america, this arms trafficker, he is a hostage. and the way that dmitry

the white house national security spokesman john kirby emphasized that if pelosi does visit taiwan, the trip would not reflect any change in the u.s. approach to its relationship with china. >> the world has seen the united states government be very lear that nothing has changed. nothing has changed. about our one china policy. which of course is guided by the taiwan relations act. the three joint u.s. prc communiques and the six assurances. we have said and we have repeatedly said that we oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side. >> john kirby will be a guest on "morning joe" coming up a little later. >>> still ahead here on "way too early," we will turn to sports, and a controversial suspension for an nfl star. plus, the yankees and astros were busy ahead of today's major league baseball trade deadline. we will recap their major moves next. ♪ so i climbed into the cab, and then i settled down inside ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man ♪ ♪ of travel i've had my share, man ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere ♪ ♪♪ (vo) you can

>> joe: no, john kirby was a spokesperson at the pentagon, he is capable and steady in his job and he's a veteran and karine jean-pierre has good looks for television, she was on television, on msnbc for sometime, we saw it this week, guys, peter doocy asks her why is novak djokovic not allowed in this country, but millions can crossover the border and stay here, karine jean-pierre said nobody is walking across the border, what are you talking about and look at videos from bill melugin and other reporters showing this happening on a daily basis, unsteady and not honest and not good at spinning dishonesty, we'll see john kirby in this position before joe biden's first term is over. >> ashley: and keeping truth social off the app store, 44% androids cannot download truth social, it is not available. this is insane. >> joe: insane, yeah, it is something that we've seen before, ashley. we talked about collusion or lack thereof over the past five years there is collusion between big tech giants and political party they serve. parlor was not allowed on apple app store or google play store or

john kirby talked about it about the press being -- pressed meeting. >> can you give us a sense of president biden's thoughts on the matter. does he support it and what kind of line of communication is between the two governments? >> you have the speaker of the house in taipei. we have stayed in touch with our taiwan counterparts and we stayed in touch with speaker pelosi's staff. she has progressed on the trip. >> what about beijing? >> have any specific relationships with the leaders but we have an ambassador and an embassy and we are in routine communication with pacing but i cannot confirm -- >> -- >> the president and the former senator fully supports the prerogative. >> does he support her going? >> he respects the speaker's decision to go to taiwan. >> you can see more of that on our website. some of us -- you responding on this with your feet. " when republicans are in power, they do nothing about either". deborah clark saying, good for all -- good for her. when it comes to this trip specifically, you can send a text at (202) 748-8003. louis, you are on. caller: i am unsure because t

that's one question that people like john kirby never think to ask. they just assume china must be bluffing. just another backward third world government making whuffie noises don't take them seriously, just like russia. well, they said they're going to invade ukraine if we push ukraine to join. now, who cares what they think ? they're a gas station with a government bluffing. that's what arrogance does do, blinds you to reality. so the question is , is china bluffing? what if they're not? what if in response to pelosi's totally pointless trip to taiwan, the chinese decide to seize the kamini, which are now governed by taiwan, whose defense we've implicitly, effectively guaranteed for seventy five years? well, that could actually happen. the chinese government is already making the kind of noises you would expect it to make before doing something like that. here's a selection ahead of the stop. the chinese government continue to ramp their warnings, saying it undermines china's sovereignty and security, sending them veto. we hope u.s. officials will c

and here's what john kirby said . i guess i'm wondering why did the president bother this from the beginning? i mean, why not rather than blame the military, he doesn't think it's a good idea to go . why not call the chinese bluff or tell them how ? and when i started a possibility of this trip, given as you pointed out, there's no change in policy precedent for flosses. so what's the job with the until the very last couple of weeks? i'm interested in this question . yeah, i think the last couple of weeks hasn't been any drama. i think i think you manufacture it with your questions. so oily. i think your manufacturing drama with your question said the pentagon press secretary after china has threatened to shoot down the speaker of the house to kill the speaker of the house, i think you're manufacturing coming of the dramas inherent. so again, what the is going on this seems like a systematic attempt to end the united states . how does the u.s. conceivably benefit from a war over taiwan? right now? they're probably pre