session fears. this hour i ll be joined by dr. anthony fauci to discuss the biden administration s response to monkey pox. the public health emergency and the impact of the most recent covid variant spreading across the u.s. we begin with the new u.s./china tensions. joining us now are nbc chief white house correspondent peter alexander cohost of weekend today and the former nato supreme allied commander. peter, tensions you have been tracking so closely between two major powers, the two remaining super powers, clearly es-kating. i cannot recall any time between the u.s. and china where the military behavior by china has been at this fever pitch. i think you re right. the escalation has increased in recent days with these live fire missile tests in the taiwan strait in taiwan s territorial waters there. so much so that just yesterday nbc news has now confirmed with white house officials the white house summoned china s ambassador to the united states to the white house fo
colony, even as biden offered russia s most infamous prisoner to bring her home. let s go outfront. tonight the cnn exclusive. we are learning that former president trump s legal team and the justice department are now in direct talks about the federal investigation into january 6th. this is a significant development because it is the first time that we actually know that they re talking, right? it shows trump is involved in this. the two sides are speaking. as attorney general merrick garland s investigation ramps up. according to sources, these talks revolve around conversations he would shield around federal investigators. we learned that the justice department was gearing up to battle former trump officials who might try and keep their conversations with the former president from federal investigators. i want to go straight to ka kaitlin. what more are you learns about these talks and considering they re with the former president s attorneys, with him. what does this me
us now. great to see you as always. this is a serious escalation. how do you see it? this is an escalation that china had been worning about in the weeks prior to this trip that pelosi was taking p the question is was it worth it, was anything substantive made during these meetings that she had on the ground there, symbolically this was a huge move, showing once again the united states stands in support of taiwan. and their autonomy there. that having been said, given the tensions, not only in the region right now, in china s escalation, and xi s escalation, as he s approaching his party congress meeting later this year, set to become the third term, unprecedented leader of that country and leader for life, was it worth it. with all of the focus now on ukraine, would this actually benefit taiwan and its security, and that s the question really going forward there, holding embargoes now on trade between china and taiwan, and, you know, the taiwanese obviously embraced this v
let s listen. [ speaking russian ] i want to apologize to my teammates, my club, the fans and the city for my mistake i made and the embarrassment i brought to them. [ speaking russian ] i want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the phoenix mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the wnba, and my amazing spouse back at home. [ speaking in russian ] i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. [ speaking in russian ] i made an honest mistake and i hope that in your ruling that it doesn t end my life here. [ speaking in russian ] i know that everybody keeps talking about political pawn, and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. [ speaking in russian ] i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any russian laws, i had no intent, i did not conspire or plan to commit this crime. [ speaking in russian ] i hope you take into accoun
amazing spouse back at home. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. i made an honest mistake and i hope that it doesn t end my life here. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any russian laws. i had no intent. i did not conspire or plan to commit this crime. i hope they can take into account all the documents, all the character lists everybody sent in on my behalf. i want to apologize to my teammates and the organization for any damage that i may have done to them. i never intended on hurting them. this is my second home and all i want to do is just win championships and make them proud. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is outside the courthouse near moscow. fred, visibly emotional, griner, apologizing to the court, taking responsibility fo