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courage of the u.s. military defending america during dangerous days. why the chinese communist party has been ramping up its military. plus, madness at the border. unknowns running into the country, disappearing into the interior of the u.s. hundreds of thousands of got-aways at the halfway mark of 2021. and a peak surge expected in the months to come. memorial day weekend, the unofficial kickoff to her when 200,000 plus -- to summer when 200,000 plus apprehensions are expected at the border. chad wolf on the biden administration's plans to house and i accommodate thousands of new migrants coming in. then highlights from the air, water and land from our exclusive coverage of the southern border where more fentanyl has been seized so far this year than all of 2020. the consequences for america today right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪

maria: and first this morning, china's coronavirus cover-up may finally be unraveling with president biden ordering the intelligence community to investigate the origins of the pandemic. this comes just days after dr. anthony fauci finally admitted that so -- covid-19 may not have originated naturally after all. watch this. >> it would have been almost a dereliction of our duty if we didn't study this. and the only way you can study these things is you've got to go where the action is. so we had a mod collaboration with very -- modest collaboration with very respectable chinese scientists who are world experts on coronavirus. and we did that from a subgrab through the larger grant to

ecohealth. maria: aha. viewers of this program already knew about the wuhan lab of virology, we've been reporting on it since february 2020. senator tom cotton became the first u.s. lawmaker to go on the record on this program and question whether the pandemic originated there, at that lab. he joined me last sunday to share what he's learned since then. >> every bit of circumstantial evidence to include evidence that came out in the final days of the trump administration that some of these employees at this lab had coronavirus-like symptoms as early as september 2019 continues to point to these labses as the origin of this virus. not that food market that the chinese. communist party used as a cover story from the very beginning. that's why it's so imperative that the biden administration hold the chinese communist party accountable and demand answers for all of these questions. maria: and, in fact, in the final days of the trump administration former secretary of state the mike pompeo

launched an inquiry into the connection between the virus and the wuhan lab, but the biden administration shut that inquiry down when it took over in january. pompeo told us about its findings just a few weeks ago on this program. >> we worked to get every bit of evidence we could. we tried to deliver this, cdc tried to work with the chinese, they covered it up terribly. every piece of evidence that we saw throughout the entire time i was there suggested that this originated at the wuhan institute of virology. i haven't seen a shred of evidence that suggests anything to the contrary. maria: since then many questions have been raised about not just the origins of the coronavirus, but the intent. one australian journalist reported that chinese military scientists discussed the weaponization of sars coronavirus five years before the covid-19 pandemic arrived. then two weeks ago on this program congressman devin nuñes raised a similar concern.

>> and, look, why is this important? this is about bioweapons. this is about biowarfare. this is very concerning. maria: ohio congressman mike turner serves on the house committee. he contributed to the new report which devin nuñes broke here a few weeks ago. congressman, thanks for being here. was this a bioweapon? >> it certainly could have been. maria, even if you just look at this intuitively where the wuhan lab is undertaking this type of research in wuhan, the virus comes from wuhan it's not like the lab is in wuhan, the virus comes from shanghai or even paris. and then you overlaw the report -- overlay the reports to even include cooperation between the wuhan lab and the chinese military which are referenced in the house intelligence report which you can see online dating back to 2012 where there were concerns about the lab's operations and its coordination with the chinese military. maria: let's go through that

report. tell me what strikes you most. i thought it was very interesting that you and your colleagues raised the fact of the activity around the wuhan lab back in october 2019. and this was something that tom cotton raised with us a long time ago, the fact that there was no cell phone activity, no cars, nothing around the wuhan virology lab in october 2019. they pretty much shut it down. let's just recognize where we are. we're not talking about bat caves in the suburbs. >> right. maria: wuhan is a major city in china larger than new york city. no activity for several weeks in october 2019. around the lab. >> right. so page 12 of the report lays out the concerns about thing activities happening at wuhan and then the occurrences at the lab right before the virus breaks out and goes worldwide, both the lack of activity and reports of individuals becoming sick. this really shows, i think, a

grave concern of both the activities that were there and raises the concern about u.s. involvement and then the, of course, it goes to the biden administration being completely unwilling to continue to pursue the original origins of the virus. this is something that the biden administration's now take up because of the public outcry, because of the report that's coming from the republicans in the house intelligence committee. but even so, the biden administration has limited the review to a 90-daytime period indicating the intelligence community wants to limit the scope of the review which is still a grave concern. maria: yeah. i mean, look, secretary pompeo's team was full of experts, very serious scientists. he had china experts, arms control experts, people who knew weapons, diplomats as well. and yet that investigation was shut down by the biden administration. president biden, i believe, has spoke spoken with xi jinping a couple of times. he told our peter doocy the

subject of the origins of the coronavirus never came up. it also never came up in the alaska meeting where u.s. officials were getting schooled by the chinese up communist party. your thoughts on why biden all of a sudden wants an investigation which you and your colleagues have already done. is he just trying to blow this off and once again knock it back to the world health organization? >> he's already blown it off in a number of ways. i mean, remember, he was uninterested in the origins of the virus, but wanted to give the vaccine of phaser and moderna to china. -- pfizer and moderna. this is clearly an administration that has no interest in pursuing china. even if there had been an accidental leak from a u.s. lab, you'd have protests around the world. it shows really the fear of coming to the conclusion of what china has been doing. but our intelligence community all the way back to 2010 the has been identifying concerns that china had been working or manipulating viruses for

biological weapons that could have grave impact worldwide, and we certainly are seeing the effects of this where unbelievable deaths have occurred and incredible impacts ott economy. -- to the economy. certainly, everything points to the wuhan lab. we need to get to the bottom of it and, certainly, the intelligence community needs to be held accountable for bringing forth the information to that we can have a very public debate on holding china accountable. maria: well, look, i'm glad you mentioned the vaccine, intellectual property, because we've reported on this program for many years the efforts that the ccp has gone through to steal intellectual property from american companies. it costs american companies $600 billion a year, and there's a stack of settlement cases that i i know of. so what's your take on what's behind sharing the vaccine secrets with the rest of the world including china? tom cotton told us they've been trying to steal the vaccine

secret success for a year now. now we're just going to give it away? >> oh, it's crazy. when you think that china and russia tried to develop vaccines that have turned out completely ineffective, and our capitalistic system, the ingenuity we have has been able to arrive at a solution we're seeing the effects across the country, and then have the administration ignore where did the virus come from and its effects on the unbelievable number of lives that we've lost and to the economy and think about giving this investment away, especially giving it to china which should be blamed for what has occurred, it's just really unconscionable. and it shows really an attack on our whole pharmaceutical system that has resulted in the only workable solution that has brought this virus under control. maria: yeah. i mean, it broadens out to the other questions about why this administration seems to product china at all costs. there were several companies that were taken off the donald trump blacklist.

joe biden took the it off because china wants it off. they were getting pressure from the ccp. they postponed the ban on trading chinese stocks of companies that are tied to the military. so my question is why is joe biden protecting the chinese communist party? and why is china hiding the origins of coronavirus? i asked the same question to jamie metzl last weekend on this program. he has a background of asian history. here's what he said to the to the question of i why china continues to hide the origins of krone the virus. watch this. coronavirus. >> the reason is if it turned out and nobody at least who i know knows if it turns out that the origin of the pandemic stems from an accidental lab leak followed by a criminal cover-up, the implications for china nationally and globally would be

massive. we could even imagine xi jinping possibly being overthrown. people all around the world demanding reparations from china and many other things, and that's why the chinese government will really stop at nothing in its ongoing effort to cover this up. maria: your reaction, congressman. >> yeah. and those are excellent points. and it goes back to, you know, just not only the cover-up, but the fact that we're being complicit in aiding china from keeping this a secret. and you can go the next step of even just the accidental leak possibility, but then there's also a nefarious intent. this research has been reportedly tied to the chinese military and the wuhan lab for nefarious intent. is you go the next step even, and you get to talk the curtain back and see that the communist party and the chinese government have real threats to the world in addition to negligence and an accidental leak.

they're clearly doing things that put lives at risk and, clearly, this is worldwide. and there should be public, worldwide outrage and, certainly, the governments and our government should be stepping up to hold china accountable. maria: yeah. congressman, i want to talk about that because china is a major net and adversary for america -- threat and adversary for america, and they are boosting their military. let's take a break, and we'll come back and talk about joe biden's budget. in his defense budget, it only provides enough funding for eight new ships. china's navy already bigger than ours, and its army quickly catching up. xi jinping has to be salivating over this. we ♪ ♪ ♪ common love isn't for us ♪ ♪ we created something phenomenal ♪ ♪ don't you agree? ♪ ♪ don't you agree? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ow! ♪

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about joe biden's budget. he dropped his fiscal year 2022 budget on friday. it includes record spending for nearly every corner of government except defense spending. can you explain this to us, that china already has a large navy if than we do -- larger navy than we do, and we're not increasing defense spending substantially? you've got russia eyeing ukraine, you've got china eyeing taiwan, iran is a whole other cornerstonish show where -- cornerstonestone issue. your thoughts on the budget. >> if you ask the american public about their concerns, they're going to say national security, threats from russia, iran, north korea, and they're also going to identify the border crisis created by the biden administration. oddly, those are the two areas where the biden administration is actually wanting to cut the budget after inflation. so you've got reductions in defense spending, reduction in

homeland security when those are the two crises that we're facing right now. when you look at the out of control spending in other areas, it shows clearly we're robbing from our future security. but china and russia are fielding new weapons that are directed at the united states and our capabilities. they're expanding their overall footprint and trying to have a world presence and earnly threatening their -- certainly threatening their neighbors. i know our allies have sob very concerned that this administration believes that our military needs to be smalled down at a time where the threats are scaling up. maria: putinen says 88% of russia's nuclear weapons will be modernized by 2022. by next year. are we prepared to stand toe to toe against these adversaries? >> absolutely not with the budget that they've proposed. i can tell you in the armed services committee in the house, we certainly are moving forward with modernizing the united states nuclear weapons stockpile. it's been aging for decades.

now we're looking at russia, they're building whole new weapons, whole new capabilities, hypersonics, weapons that can orbit the effort and then attack the united states all the while while our president is currently cutting the funds necessary to be able to modernize and fund advances in our military. we're not going to be able to catch up, and both china and russia are seeing this as an opportunity to expand their worldwide influence and, of course, weaken the united states and our allies. maria: all right. thank you so much. congressman mike turner, thank you. coming up, we took a boat rude with the a.g. of texas, and not long after our boat ride on the i true yo grand, mass grave sites were uncovered at the park we sailed right by as criminal cartels are getting paid just to get into that park. the money and death at the hands of criminal cartels, next. ♪ ♪

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♪♪ maria: welcome back. and now to the southern border where neither president biden nor vice president harris have been this year despite the sharp spike in all legal migrants flooding into the country since inauguration day. last month we went to see the crisis for ourselves as the number of apprehensions was reaching record or highs at 170,000 migrants apprehended in april and 100,000 others who got away. their whereabouts and intentions unknown. we viewed the crisis is from the land, the air and the water. we took a boat ride with the attorney general of texas, ken paxton. we took a blackhawk helicopter above texas with the governor, greg abbott, and we did ride-alongs in the car with the

border patrol as well as the border patrol's union. i also spoke with several local sheriffs and a ranch owner who said migrants are on his property all the time. >> people, of course, come across, and they cross our fences, and they start pulling them down. so now we're just, we've resolved it by we're just using barbed wire fence. we did have a lot of problems with people showing up at our headquarters, you know, people asking for water and help. maria: the head of the i rio grande border patrol, chief brian hastings, told me his team has uncovered 70 pounds of fentanyl, 100 pounds of heroin, 1,000 pounds of meth and 40,000 pounds of marijuana just in the last few months. he said these hard narcotics make their way into the interior of the united states. later on the blackhawk chopper with the governor of texas and

the heads of the department of public if safety and the national guard, chief mccraw confirmed what chief hastings had said. he told me what shows up in texas does not stay in texas and that the mexican cartels are one of the biggest threats right now to new york. >> just this week alone over 1800 pounds of methamphetamine received along the texas/mexico border. 1500 pounds in the rgv, rio grande valley, and we talk about the impacts elsewhere. the governor said they're not keeping it here, a lot of that's headed to new york and other cities throughout the nation. so we know working with the new york city police department that their major, organized crime is really the mexican cartels. maria: the criminal organizations are depending on

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♪♪ >> it should outrage every single person. i don't care if you're a democrat, i don't care if you're a are money. the only they can that joe biden -- thing that joe biden is doing on the border, he's trying to accelerate illegal immigration. they're building more facilities for the sole purpose of expediting the release of illegal migrants into the interior. he is the first president in our lifetimes, indeed in the history of the country, who has ever attempted such a program. maria: and that was former senior white house adviser steven miller on this program earlier this month revealing the biden administration's plan to

push people through the facilities quickly, alleviate overcrowding at the border and house them in new facilities. now he wants to pay for it. if they're doing it, last month border patrol reported over 178,000 apprehensions. that's a 20-year high. yet as of last week, only 455 minors were in their custody. where are these people going? chad wolf is currently a visiting fellow at the heritage foundation can. secretary, thanks very much for being here. it looks like we are pushing the migrants into the interior of our country as much as possible. the administration has built a lot more housing to house these people, but they're also trying to help them connect with so-called sponsors or family that they stay they have in cities across the country. your reaction to where we are halfway through the year now.

>> well, thanks for having me on, maria. i think what we currently are and what we see going on at the border is we continue to be in the middle of a historic crisis on our southwest border. you talked about dhs and the progress they've made. the department and the administration are trying to take a victory lap at the moment talking about how they're moving migrants, mainly minors, from one government facility to9 another government facility and saying we've solved the problem and the crisis. and that's anything, they have done anything but that. solving the crisis is actually trying to stop the illegal behavior. they're not interested in doing that. they've torn down a number of programs that we put in place back in 2019 and 2020, and they have not replaced it with any programs or policies to address the illegal behavior. again, they're just simply facilitating more and more of these migrants coming across the border. maria: okay. what is, what is needed at this point? i mean, look, this is a

dangerous trek. this is not just an economic issue for this country, but this is a humanitarian crisis where young girls are getting sexually assaulted as they a make this trek. >> well, absolutely. what's needed is to make sure that you're not only putting the right policies in place, but you're putting the right messaging in place. and so they need to bring back either the e migrant protection protocols, they need to show that it's not okay to continue to smuggle minors and families across that border. but more importantly, it's to make sure that there's a consequence to that behavior. so as long as those populations stay in the u.s. once they come across that border, these numbers and this flow is going to continue. it's not until these folks are removed properly back to their home countries, back to mexico and elsewhere that you're going to start to see some of this decrease. it's what we did in 2019 and 2020, and it worked.

the numbers went down, the apprehensions went down, and we got the border under control. we know what works. there is a playbook. this administration simply chooses not to institute some of those policies. maria: yeah. we've been talking about the budget this morning which president biden unveiled on friday. the department of homeland security secretary mayorkas told lawmakers that the administration is seeking $52.2 billion in funding for the coming fiscal year, leaving the agency's budget unchanged. so despite this massive surge, the budget is unchanged, but now president biden is asking for more money to pay for all of this housing. i mean, it just gets me that there's absolutely no effort whatsoever to stop people from coming here illegal, jumping the line in front of people who are actually trying to do it legally, get their green card. and instead he'sing asking for money -- he's asking for money

through congress to pay for technology and these additional housing facilities that they just built. >> well, it's unfathomable that dhs and all the homeland security threats that the g. department tries to assess and address on a daily basis that there's not increased funding for the department. of it's not only the southwest border and the migrant, the humanitarian and security crisis, it's also cybersecurity and a variety of these threats, threats from china that we're dealing with that the department needs to continue to push forward. at the end of the day, we need to make sure that americans are safe and secure, and it's going to take resources to do that. the fact that the administration is not focusing on that and is focusing on building these facilities and giving more money to hhs to build more of these facilities, again, shows me that they're not serious about trying to stop the problem. instead of managing the crisis, they need to solve the crisis and, again, they're not currently doing that. we heard the secretary just yesterday talk about possibly reprogramming money within the

department to address the humanitarian and security crisis on the southwest border. clearly, there's a resource need there. clearly, they're spending more money than they have at the moment. so as we look towards the next fiscal year, that's going to continue out of these numbers and the second half of the year these numbers continue to increase. maria: yeah. and also we're all wondering where all of these people are going. we spoke with senator marsha blackburn recent9ly, she joined me on fox business on my morning program there to talk talk to us about the fact that we have seen or she has seen planes touching down in chattanooga filled with migrants. they sent them to tennessee. ken paxton in texas is also questioning whether or not they're actually sending my grants to ed states -- migrants to red states because at the end of the day the cost will fall to the state. here's marsha blackburn joining me recently on this very issue. watch this. >> what we know is that the

biden administration is absolutely living in fantasy land if they're telling people that border is secure. they have apprehended 500,000 illegal entrants since joe biden took office. and what they've begun to do is to move them out and about around the country so that they are offloading the costs for housing child services, health care, education to the states and the counties. and and what we found out is that they had these planes coming in to chattanooga, putting these children on buses and then taking them to communities around the area. maria: that's actually extraordinary, secretary. what do you make of that? and, by the way, andy biggs, the arizona congressman, is calling on al hand degree mayorkas --

alejandro mayorkas to be removed in all of this. he writes a new op-ed for foxnews.com, and in it he writes the rationale for the border crisis can be set at the feet of biden's hand-picked homeland security. mayorkas prevarications are an utter failure and demonstrate that he is unfit to serve. if mayorkas refuses to step down, congress should initiate impeachment proceedings. your reaction. >> well, a couple of comments. senator marsha blackburn is exactly right. what they are doing at the border right now is they are breaking the system. there are too many minors in custody for the amount of facilities that they have, so what do they have to do? they then have to move those individuals to other parts of the country. so what we see now is that every city, every state in the country is now a border state and community because they are pushing these populations all across the country because they have broken the system. the system has never been designed or accounted for to

hold these number of individuals and to process these numbers of individuals. these are historic highs, 21-year highs in the amount of folks that are coming across the border and into facilities. she's exactly right, they are moving these minors, these family units and others to all sorts of communities across the country. is so she's 100% correct on that. look, i have significant concerns with the dhs secretary and the types of policies that he is pursuing. i think they're making the country less safe, they're making our men and women of border patrol, the law enforcement officers less safe, and at the end of the day, they're doing a disservice to the migrants when they encourage the migrants to a make this dangerous trek up. and dangerous he continues to say the border is close and secure. that's a lie. he's misleading the american people on purpose because he's done it, he's done it multiple, multiple times. and so you have to account for that, and you have to wonder why he is doing that, and i think he

needs to be held accountable for that. but at the end e of the few day, this is about protecting the homeland and making sure we have the right policies in place. maria: great to see you, chad wolf. we, of course, will continue to spotlight it. former secretary of homeland security, chad wolf. >> great. maria: thank you, sir. quick break, and then general jack keane is here on foreign policy in the middle east, another crisis underway. the administration is pledging even more american taxpayer money to the palestinian authority even though they've committed to wiping israel off the map. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ (naj) at fisher investments, our clients know we have their backs. (other money manager) how do your clients know that? (naj) because as a fiduciary, it's our responsibility to always put clients first. (other money manager) so you do it because you have to? (naj) no, we do it because it's the right thing to do. we help clients enjoy a comfortable retirement. (other money manager) sounds like a big responsibility. (naj) one that we don't take lightly. it's why our fees are structured

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♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> let's be real clear about this. those 4,000 rockets that went into israel were not hamas rockets, they were iranian rockets. they were paid for or built by or put together by hamas militants trained by iran in

aerodynamics and propulsion necessary to attack israel. you don't have to take my word for it. the iranian leader, ayatollah khamenei, two days ago took credit for what he claims was the victory over israel by iran, and hamas' leader thanked iran for its help in that victory. so, you know, to watch what the biden administration and how they have emboldened iran when, as you said, we warned them specifically, look, if you reverse these policies and embolden iran, you're going to jeopardize this hard-earned middle east peace. maria: that was former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe on this program last weekend sharing the advice that he gave the biden administration on his way out which they clearly ignored. four months later, gaza lies in ruins. the u.s. has pledged nearly $400 million to the palestinians, and our own secretary of state did not even utter the word iran

once during his recent trupp to israel. join -- trip to israel. joining me now is general jack keane, a retired four-star army yen and a presidential medical of freedom recipient, the highest civilian honor. the memorial day weekend with, sir, we thank you for your service. general, it's good to see you. >> it's great seeing you, maria. maria: so what is your take on all of this? the ceasefire in place, does it last? what are your thoughts about all of the money is sent to the palestinian authority? have we changed course entirely in the middle east? >> well, we're beginning to, and i said that when the biden administration calm -- came in, while it looked like they were going the move in the right direction about china, wasn't sure about russia, but i was convinced they had a strategic plan for the middle east, and that is unfolding right before our eyes because they're failing

to recognize something that former director ratcliffe mentioned. iran is the chief sponsor of the proxy wars that have taken place in the middle east and of terrorism in the middle east. so the three major organizations that were firing on israel just recently for those 11 days, hezbollah, the palestinian islamic jihad and hamas who did most of it, all of them are, work for the ayatollah in iran. he sponsors them. and, believe me, the attack by hamas would not have happened if iran did not okay it, maria. and that is the link that has to be established. the other problem we have there is the palestinian authority in the west bank under mahmoud abbas for 16 years has rejected all of the concessions israel has wanted to make. that is why the arab nations walked away from the palestinians. it's not that they don't care about the suffering there, not

that they don't want the situation resolved with israel, but it's a recognition that they have much more in common with israel in cop fronting iran -- confronting iran who's a major destabilizer in the region than they have with the palestinians in i trying to resolve what appears to be an intractable situation with terrorists running hamas in gaza and corrupt leadership mahmoud abbas, taking the donor money and making no progress. so the fact that we're not dealing with iran is a major flaw by this administration. they should have been called out immediately. we should have got up from our chairs in i have vienna where tl is being negotiated, the nuclear deal where we're attempting to revisit the origin aal 20 the 15 nuclear deal that so many of us feel are fundamentally flawed, we should have stopped those negotiations immediately because iran was behind the attack on israel. and until that attack was ended

by hamas, there's going to be no discussions. maria: yeah. >> and you just made an unbelievable point that they haven't even brought the word iran up in any of the discussions with the american people about what has taken place for those 11 days and and also for what is taking place right now with secretary blinken in the middle east. i can tell you this, that prime minister netanyahu and his people around him gave secretary blink an earful about iran's complicit behavior here. and we have got to stop accommodating and appeasing them, because it has got us nowhere. maria: yeah. well, they're not holding iran accountable, they're not holding china accountable. i want to take a short break. when we come back, i want to ask you about xi jinping's next power grab with the ccp-backed global times urging beijing, ccp, to bomb australia. then your expectations for president biden's first in-person meeting with vladimir in-person meeting with vladimir putin in geneva next

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maria: welcome back. i am back with general jack keane talking about foreign boil out of the biden administration -- policy. i'm sure you saw the global times report recently. the global times is a newspaper backed by the chinese communist party, and the global times is recommending the ccp bomb australia. they actually go through areas of australia where it would be a positive to strike australia says the global times. and this is all because, of course, as you know, australia was one of the countries to push back on the ccp demanding answers to the covid-19 origins. australia raised its hand, said

we want to know how this pandemic started killing 3.5 million people across the world. immediately ccp cut off australia, stopped sending imports into australia, you know, tried to publicly denounce australia, and now we get this from the global times with recommendations for the ccp to strike australia. your reaction. >> well, cynical, bombastic, explosive language that you're going to get out of the state-owned newspapers and television broadcasts that exist in china. look, anything like that happened, there would be a major war with the united states and our allies against china. president xi is not that foolish to do something like that. but, listen, the pattern that he has established since he's been in power going back to 2012 and 2013 is he's a predator economically and also militarily. and he uses intimidation and

coercion to break people's will, to wear them down, to break their resolve. that's what he did in hong kong. and that is what he's done in, with our allies in the region. maria: real quick on putin and this upcoming meeting, any expectations here? joe biden and vladimir putin? >> i think it would be better suited if we didn't have this meeting so early with putin, because with we had so many issues on the table with putin's bullying, etc. i think later in the year or next year would have been far better, and certainly have one with president xi at some point. but nonetheless, it's going to take place -- maria: yep. >> i think people have low expect takes about the outcome -- expectations about the outcome. having a summit for the sake of having a summit more than anything else. but it is an opportunity to go face to face with putin and put our concerns on the table. listen, maria, the backdrop here

for putin, he has enormous confidence about his ability to read people, and he has huge spew wigs. he has taken advantage all of our presidents, democrat and republican, i think, right up until the present x. that's just the reality. putin's masterful at doing this, a former kgb agent himself. he's very intuitive and very instinctive when he's dealing with somebody. so he knows biden -- maria: he walks into this meeting a victor already because joe biden waived the sanctions on the company operating the nord stream 2 pipeline. so he'll be able to double that gasoline going into europe while the u.s., unfortunately, faces a shutdown of the xl pipeline. general, it's good to see you. thank you so much for weighing in a on all of these very important issues. general jack keane. we'll see you soon, sir. thank you. and that'll do it for us on

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of one bucket to "kudlow" and i'm david asman in for larry kudlow but first to our top economic stories senate republicans including our next guest preparing to unveil their structure counteroffer to the white house tomorrow. any republican offer is close to $1 trillion up from their original 568 alien dollar plan and according to several staff senators president biden has said he is willing t