underground and israel believes hostages could be there as well. i ll speak to the republican and democratic leaders of the house foreign affairs committee, chairman mccall and ranking member back from israel. all as president biden prepares for a critical summit with china s president xi jinping today. can they reset relations after a year of escalating tensions? and republican presidential candidate chris christie joins me, the first of the candidates to go to israel and learn more about the challenges, as well as the challenges we discussed. i will be on the debate stage in alabama, i will be on the debate stage. you and i know why donald trump is not on the debate stage. it s because i am. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. doctors say that israeli tanks are now at the er doors of gaza s largest hospital complex, as troops move room to room, building to building, in what israel is calling an ongoing targeted operation against hamas. inside the
. i ll start with you. what are you hoping to? what kind of message are you hoping to send with this visit? thanks for having us, caitlin. i think this is a strong bipartisan endeavor into the indo pacific. we went to japan, south korea and now taiwan as well as meeting with our service troops in hawaii and guam. and so this has been an extraordinary code l led by chairman mccall of the house foreign affairs committee. and i think we ve accomplished a lot in terms of gathering information with respect to our allies here in the indo pacific . their concerns obviously, with the threats coming from china, but also the importance of our relationship between the united states. and our allies both economically militarily and from
we have an exclusive report from taipei. good morning. good morning, dana. good to see you. this is different from what we heard right before the war on ukraine when lawmakers were very adamant there would be no u.s. troops, no boots on the ground. now we re learning it s a possibility when it comes to taiwan. in my exclusive interview with chairman mccall, he tells me sending american men and women to war is the last resort, conflict is the last resort. deterrence is key here, but authorizing war powers is not out of the question. so you re saying the option to authorize war powers is on the table? if communist china invaded taiwan it would certainly be on the table, and something that would be discussed by congress and with the american people. are they prepared to do this? is taiwan worth it?
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deadline for these documents was supposed to be five pm last night. so where do things stand? that s right. and as far as we know yesterday, according to a source familiar with the matter there were about 3000 pages of documents at the state department shared with congress with chairman mccall and his committee regarding the afghanistan withdrawal, but when it comes to the specific documents that mccall actually wants, only one of those sets of documents was actually shared. so essentially, what that means is that we re teed up right now for subpoenas to come from the committee to the secretary of state because essentially the documents that they have been specifically requesting over the period of the last few months, just having all been provided to the committee. so the three things that they re looking for our number one emergency evacuation plans from the embassy that has been provided to them. the other thing is the actual after action report that the state department did that lo