already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether or not
peace and stability and any crossing of that red line would be disastrous for the united states, pointing out that china s 1.4 billion people will not stand for the disrespect that could come if the united states somehow supports the concept taijuan as an i d independent country. they want that to continue. obviously taijuan is a hot button issue and president biden by making this pretty explosive statement certainly that was later dialled back by the white house trying to make sure it doesn t escalate heightened tensions here in this region, kate. yeah. john, what are you hearing about this statement? jeremy laid out the walk back but a mistake? a good cop bad cop routine? what? if it was good cop, bad cop routine that would be strategic ambiguity about strategic ambiguity. got to say, if you hear a commander in chief say something three times that seemed to be at
that in my view requires a vote of the house. he may consider what he s doing in his committee de facto to be all but an impeachment inquiry that could lead to articles of impeachment, and that s true. but as to a formal impeachment proceeding, we have not undertaken a formal proceeding. okay. axios is reporting that the president s campaign officials are happy that he is being labeled a white supremacist, arguing it makes the party, the democrats, your party, look extremist. the president, as we know, disagreed with that sentiment today as he left the white house. but do you agree with that, that using the word white supremacy, calling the president that could actually help the president and backfire on democrats? no. and only this white house could see some advantage to being labeled white supremacist. but again, the president said it s not good. his campaign, though, according to axios saying that could be a good cop, bad cop routine. i can t imagine a worth epithet
go to ed rollins, he is in charge of the schedule. i became mr. no, he was mr. yes. i wasn t very popular and he was well loved. martha: good cop bad cop routine. thank you. bret: we re looking live outside from the blair house across from the white house where the bush family is mobilizing to get into the motorcade to escort the casket from the capitol rotunda to the washington cathedral. as we look back to the washington cathedral there are amazing conversations before the service starts. one we just saw with the national security advisor currently, john bolton and the former vice president dick cheney. you want to listen in to see what they re talking about if we could, we can t. let s bring in chris wallace instead. well, that s kind of a pale substitute. it is interesting. i was looking at that same picture as you guys were and just as a bit of reality, it is neither good or bad, it just is.
inaccurate. there were deals and time lines that had already been made and needed a lot of fact which canning. here s what max boot writing in the washington post . president trump likes his north korea template so much he s applying it to nato. ranch up the hold a meeting, act bud buddy buddy, claim that there s a deal and there s nothing. that s why i brought that up, i was wondering because there were people there when he was refuting. saying members are going to pay more in the time line that i put in place and saying that s not true. is this what it all boils down to, bluster and? i think sometimes president trump is his own one-man good cop, bad cop routine. i don t want to take anonymous