first breaking tonight house speaker nancy pelosi says that u.s. will not abound in its commitments to taiwan after meeting with taiwanese leaders of the past day. the beijing rebuttal crock causing a lot of concerns as china prepares for a large-scale show of force in the taiwan strafe to make clear that its claims are nonnegotiable the island it regards as a renegade province. the military drills are expected to be the most provocative action towards taiwan and a quarter century. the white house correspondent peter doocy joins us from the north long, peter. on the ground and in the water near taiwan a lot is changing. here at the white house the president s position towards china head is not changing. tonight he remains in covert isolation as speaker nancy pelosi jets around asia. we condemn them for being one of the most freest societies in the world. that s not how china sees things though. neither is this. this is a choice between democracy and toss to see. the
Bestselling has e selling has ebbed somewhat. David we get the advanced goods trade balance for the month of may. At nine 30, ecb president mario draghi, bank of England Governor Mark carney and bank of japan and the bank of Canada Governor will speak at the ecbs forum over in portugal. At 10 00, it is u. S. Pending home sale numbers for the last weeklynd we will get crude inventories data after oil has come off with its most consistent gains in almost a month. Jonathan that is the lineup for the rest of the day. The lineup for the next 10 minutes, if you want political theater, you will want this. The house of commons where Prime Minister theresa may will be taking questions for the First Time Since the general election, pitting her against the labor leader in the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn. T is may versus corbyn you can watch that on your bloomberg terminal. That will begin shortly. Over in the United Kingdom, the story in the world of Central Banks is the fed taking notice of rising
This is bloomberg surveillance. We have a lot of news out. There is a new poll out. And we need to focus on bronze. An it has been extraordinary 20 four hours in finance and american politics in general. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with taylor riggs and breaking news. Yes, we are following that news, a new Bloomberg Politics National Poll Shows Hillary clinton maintaining her lead over donald trump. Candidates, her lead goes close to the margin of error. Donald trump was in North Carolina when hes suggested that gun supporters could stop clinton. Abolish,y wants to essentially abolished, the Second Amendment. Judges,ets to pick her nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people maybe there is. Taylor the Clinton Campaign responded quickly, saying what he said was dangerous. Quoted saying that he makes threats because he is a coward. The brazilian president has been impeachment trial. , turnbull winning reelection last month. Trying to derail the survey bu
Janis Paige, a popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform into her 90s, has died.