offers more threats nearby. state side a number of critical republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminster. looks like we already have winners if you can believe it or not inner missouri and michigan and the polls have just closed in arizona. now this hour s going to be a high wire act as we bring you all of these breaking stories but we begin tonight with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker visit taiwan. it was completely wrong. the u.s. draw a lesson from it instead of making repeated mistakes. laura: it s now, well, let me just tell you one thing. 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and, to her credit, nancy pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot her plane out of the sky. now she s been the ground for what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after 10:30 a.m. eastern today. we re going to bring you news about the specifics of her meetings at any moment. now, remember, trip details have b
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can the chinese construe that as anything else but that you re sporting its independence? i ll let the speaker speak for herself. we do not support taiwan independence, and nothing has changed. laura: now, gordon, what does that response mean for folks out there watching who don t understand the nuances of this relationship. yeah, that response is basically communist party talking points. kirby actually saying what beijing wants him to say. and, you know, biden has made this problem worse. he started doing that on july 20th when he said to reporters, oh, the pentagon doesn t think that the speaker s trip is a good idea. because what he was saying to beijing was, look, our administration is divided. come in and intimidate us some more and that is, in fact, what happened laura because the already dire sounding threats became even more dire after president biden s comments. this became a real test ofless, because biden wouldn t support the speaker of the house.
with taiwan, how can the chinese construe that as anything else but that you re supporting ? i ll let the speaker speak forf. herself. we do not support taiwan independence and nothing has changed now. gordon, whatpo doesns that respe mean for folks out there watching who don t understand the nuances of thisah relationship? yeah, that response is basically communist party talking points. it s kirbytalk actually saying t beijing wants him to say. and you know, biden has made this problem worse. hen started doing that on july 20 when he said to reporters, oh, the pentagon doesn t thinks that the speaker s trip is a good idea because what he was o good idea because what he was o our administration is divided, come in and intimidate us some more and that s is in fact what happened more because the already dire sounding threats became even more dire after president biden s comments. . this became a real test of wills because biden wouldn t