china hated every second of it and pelosi is calling her trip a defense of democracy. beijing is calling it a provocation. china s military is poised for live fire drills in taiwan s water and airspace in the coming days. here is national security council spokesman john kirby. this is exactly what we would expect the chinese to do in the wake of or even during speaker pelosi s trip. this is pretty much the playbook we expected and we ll be watching to see how they develop. again, we urge beijing not to escalate the tensions. there is no reason to. nothing about speaker pelosi s trip was inconsistent with our longstanding approach to china and supporting taiwan s self-defense. harris: we can hear from admiral kirby but apparently not from president biden who initially pushed back on pelosi going there in the first place. he didn t want her to go. both republicans and democrats have agreed supporting taiwan with china always lurking is absolutely the right thing to do. form
pledging america s unwavering support for democracy in taiwan. the ccp is not taking that lying down. china putting out a new saber rattling video this morning showing missiles at the ready and fighter jets moving into position as beijing prepares to hold its largest taiwan military drills. they will go on for six days. we haven t seen them at this magnitude in 30 years. bill: they re set to surround the island while conducting live fire exercises. some of those drills will happen in taiwanese waters. former secretary of state mike pompeo saying it is america s responsibility to hold beijing accountable. over these last 48 hours with respect to pelosi s trip is a symptom of the challenge in front of us. we weren t going to sit back and listen to the rhetoric and do nothing. if you continue down this pack and conduct live fire exercise we ll begin to take real action. there was no threat to china itself. they created this crisis. we should not let them use the visit of s
a victory in the fight against isil. the pent gone during air strikes in iraq. mike joins us live now from the white house, and mike, what more can you tell us about this operation. tony, it is a temporary victory, no question about it. top officials including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and later in a statement from the pentagon, some top officials now reports have been killed in the continuing air strikes top officials within isil, setting back their cause. they include the head of isil anywhere tear operations in iraq, the governor of the islamic state so called islamic state govern ship in the area around moss soul, of course, which has been captured by isil forces and a key deputy to the top commander in the top leader of isil, the pentagon has been carrying out these air strikes of course since august with the help of coalition partners the pentagon very eager as they always are to emphasize some nations involved here with some 1500 being put on the g
of cuba. we hope in the normalization process the people of cuba are going to change cuba. in the rules of raul castro cuba has agreed to nothing. children were slaughtered in their school by the taliban. one of the worst attacks i by the taliban in years. if this does not jolt us out of the inability to come together, maybe nothing will. the nature of terrorism has been shifting. taking advantage of social media with its own form of propaganda. the problem is that you re fighting an idea. thousands of yazidis still trapped in the sinjar mountains in urgent need of humanitarian aid. they re hungry and cold and dress operate to get off the mountains. i feel relief. we begin with the debate over the historic decision to restore diplomatic ties with cuba after 50 years of hostility. the president has had the leaders of both burma and china to the united states. and for that reason i wouldn t rule out a visit from president castro. and havana many cuba
good evening. we begin with breaking news tonight out of hartford county. a barricade situation reported along eerie street. police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. they say they responded to a call about a fight but could not find the scene and began knocking on doors. that s when they found a man barricade inside a house. negotiations went on for two to three hours before the suspect was found dead. police are trying to determine if it was a self-inflighted wound or if it was police involved. our other big story tonight, shutdown showdown. senate democrats and house republicans appear deadlocked in the latest budget battle. and if there is no deal, the government about partially shut down on tuesday. tara mergener has the latest from capitol hill. reporter: house republicans are working into the night and singing a familiar tune. what is and what should never be. reporter: the gop appears closed to approving funding to keep the government runnin