Hello, everyone. Welcome to you, america. And this talk we have with josh chin and liza lin and from the wall street journal on surveillance state. Your new book. Im super excited to host is because josh and i were a longtime colleagues at the wall street journal and china. So first things first, a couple of housekeeping rules before we get into the meat of the audience, before we start. If you do have questions, do the event please submit them through the q a function and well get to them in the second half of the event. And of course, more importantly, copies of surveillance state are available for purchase to our bookselling partner, solid state books and you can find a link to buy a book on this page. So just click on that. A quick introduction for our two speakers josh chin is a new america fellow in 2020. Hes also the Deputy Bureau chief in china. The wall street journal. As i mentioned, he previously he and i were previously colleagues there in china. And he has, of course, gone
president to be able to see this to a conclusion. i mean, you do one term and they reverse it when they come in [applause] youn t can t have it be reversed. you got to have humility. you can t be prideful, it can t be just about you. when he says eight years, every time i hear it i wince, because i say if it takes eight years to turn this around, then you don t want him as your president. paul: let s bring in wall street journal columnists and fox news contributor carl karl rove, he served as southeastern adviser the president george w. bush. karl, well co. the former president, president trump, was banging on ron desantis for months. now that the governor s in and fighting back, it s really fast and furious, a lot earlier than i can recall in previous campaigns. how is desantis doing so far? i think pretty well. you know, for example, you just showed that display and president trump dismissed desantis saying eight years by saying, you don t want that guy, because i c
it s time for us to be this sunday, taking on trump. the republican primary field will be expanding this week as florida governor ron desantis and tim scott both jump into the 2024 race. think the party has developed a party of losing. it s time for us to be proud to be americans and proud of our president. can either candidate make the case he s the better alternative than donald trump and unite the party process in the primary battle ahead? i ll talk to republican congressman byron donald of florida who is currently backing donald trump. plus, flirting with disaster. debt ceiling negotiations break down, restart and then stop again. default is not an option. this white house will not acknowledge that they re spending too much. what s really going on inside the talks. is either side negotiating in good faith? and how serious is the june 1st deadline for a catastrophic default? i ll talk to treasury secretary janet yellen. and abortion follow ticks. republic
per lined, the dni confirms it s looking into the risks to our national security. also tonight, lindsey graham and the politics of violence. he says if trump is indicted, republicans will riot in the streets. quite a contrast to pivotal moments in history when nonviolence prevailed. plus, the mid terms and why after roe no one with any sense is still talking about a red wave, and as kids head back to school, how to navigate the sometimes confusing guidance out there about covid and other health threats. we begin the reidout tonight three weeks to the day since donald trump announced that the fbi had searched his mar-a-lago home to retrieve classified documents he took with him when he left the white house. during that time the twice-impeached former president has continued to try to play the victim claiming he s under attack by the mean old biden administration and some sort of political vendetta, but in that same time span we have learned not only the multiple attempt ma
shocking somber news out of japan, a political assassination, japan former prime minister, shinzo abe , down in public, the moment the fatal shot was fired, caught on video. a warning, what you are about to see is chilling. the gunman struck the former prime minister in the back, one bullet penetrated his heart, according to dr. pitt 20 worked to try to save him. but they could not. the former prime minister was pronounced dead number 5:0 3 pm local time. already, a massive investigation underway, police have arrested a 41-year-old man who police say he has confessed to using a homemade weapon to carrying out the assassination. japan has notoriously strict handgun laws, had are extraordinary difficult to get, abe, 67 years old, the longest- serving prime minister in that country s history. cnn reporters are covering the story from all over the globe, and we begin in tokyo. live on the street, a shocking assassination, just a shock to see gun violence in a country in which it