maintained and the democracy which have worked hard to build are facing unprecedented challenges. more that we re able to speak with one voice, i think the greater understanding china would understand where we stand, the more importantly it would help them to understand don t send a balloon over our airspace. don t use authoritarian bully tactics is not going to go far. bret: the taiwanese president in the u.s. meeting with the speaker of the house and a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the ronald reagan presidential library today. this is the chinese put out a statement their liaison i have to point out that china will not sit idly by in the face of blatant provocation and take necessary and resolute actions in response to the unwanted situation. former speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan last year triggered a serious crisis in the china-u.s. relationship and lessons should be learned. and speaking of this former
the district attorney on the other side of that lawyers across the board told me they told me he d crossed the line there and in a normal criminal case that might even be chargeable, the idea of intimidating or threatening your prosecuting attorney that sentiment is a justified one. i do think there s a notion of a threat levied against a public official, but in a situation like this i don t see alvin bragg proceeding on those charges and here s why he understands the implications here and i think he wants to go on nothing but the actual facts and evidence he doesn t want to seem as though he s using his own position to try to bully or even defend against the bully tactics of donald trump, so i don t anticipate he s going to lean into that even though in another situation it s very likely he possibly could i want to get your take on the
walk away from? it is troubling you. and he is probably right, the way things have been going if you look all around things have changed but it s also interesting to see the intimidation tactics the bully tactics and that s what they are if you are showing up at someone s house that is exactly what you are doing, against the supreme court justices who are sitting on the high court in part because of their brilliance but in part because none of them have a history of shrinking to any kind of pressure whatsoever. they use their minds and as you said sean they are calm, they are thoughtful the screaming and yelling is hard to see how this helps the cause that these folks who are showing up to protest and have every right to protest are trying to accomplish it s really hard to equate them. leo i want to protest at my office some members of congress have had that at their homes its
you re also seeing russian information operations that are helping the kremlin to prepare its population for a move into dunbass, but not much more than that. everyone around the watching that. and trying to figure out what that means for the objectives. now, he s stated a lot of different things, including nato membership and there s the question of legally recognizing the annexed crimean peninsula. it s up to the ukrainian government if they want to do those things, but the united states and the west are saying these sort of bully tactics wouldn t work to achieve that sort of effect. can t just make something that was illegal legal through this sort of brutal expansion of an illegal war. so all these things that putin has claimed that he wants, nato, the united states, backing off and we know that he basically would love to see nato either severely diminished or completely destroyed. that said, the foreign minister