attempts to take taiwan by force. doug luzader has details. hi, doug. doug: this emerging trade pact is called the framework for prosperity, but other headlines are emerging and the white house had to clarify a surprising comment the president made about taiwan. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons, are you willing to get involved militarily for taiwan, if it comes to that? yes, that is the commitment we made. doug: that sounds like a major change in policy for the u.s. the white house very quickly issued this statement denying there was any policy change. the president said our policy has not changed and reiterated our one china policy and commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait to provide taiwan with military means to defend itself. the president made news speaking about the u.s. economy, no longer talk about transitory challenge. president biden: our gdp will grow faster than china s for the fir
brooke: former president trump reacting to testimony that revealed hillary clinton approved sharing false information with the media alleging he was communicating with russia ahead of the 2016 election. the former president telling me, this is one of the greatest political scandals in history, for three years i had to fight her off and fight the people off, where do i get my reputation back, and the former president warned that the investigation into his campaign distracted officials from what could have been a real danger from russia, trump s comments after clinton campaign manager testified at michael sussmann s trial about clinton s personal involvement. sussmann is charged with making a false statement to the fbi, claiming covert communication channel from donald trump to russia to baker.
kind of scandal that they discovered what they did all of those folks are now catching this boomerang right in the teeth. because boy is this story revive now, right? when is the last time you had heard about this story at all? i hadn t thought about it in years. but it turns out we now know that the trump, alfa bank story is isn t disproven. it isn t a hoax. that people who founded out in the first place to this day think that what they found was conclusive evidence that a covert communication channel was opened during the campaign between the trump organization and a russian bank connected to the kremlin. it was a covert communication channel that existed during the campaign and that both sides deliberately covered up. really? tell me more. hadn t thought about this in years. but now i want to know a lot more about it because now it seems like we more a lot of questions that before you try to ruin these peoples lives as
for the atlantic. natasha bertrand is a staff writer for the atlantic. frank, starting with you, you wrote a great piece reflecting back two years ago. i remember that piece. everyone s denying it. what did you learn, how was the story advanced in the two years since you ve first wrote about it? well, it s only margin ally a advanced. the lot of computer scientists were looking at this data in realtime and they said there s something raem funny here that this bank in moscow is communicating with the trump campaign. there was a whole series of suspicious, very circumstantial pieces of evidence and data that suggested that it was a covert communication channel. but it was just a question. and we ve had this scandal, this big scandal and there s so many plot points in the scandal it s
shut down after the times contacted alpha bank s representatives, but before the newspaper contacted trump. max, who s one of the computer scientists, an alias, says that shows a human interaction. that is pretty weird. i mean, what more evidence do you need? it s very, very obvious. and it s really razor here, the fact we ve still not been able to rule out the idea that was a covert communication channel no one has come forth with a plausible explanation for why this is happening, why it s one of three organizations communicating with the trump server in the months leading up to the election is completely remarkable. i think the fact that frank s story got overlooked or criticized as much as it did and the fact that now it s being revisited and you have the editor of the new york times saying that there, you know, was