major develop moons, congress passed a bill giving 14.3 billion in aid to israel, but joe biden threatened to veto it because it does not include money for a cause that is already defeated sadly in ukraine. israeli prime minister netanyahu today says that nothing is going to stop them from going into gaza and getting the job done and now gaza city is surrounded. we re seeing explosions across the night sky. a live report from the ground later in the show. but first, loving china, hating us, the focus of tonight s angle. preparations for the date are underway. what is he going to wear? how long will the conversations last? who is better at small talk? the president is looking forward to meeting with president xi. will not get details about this meeting that is going to happen this month in san francisco. it will be a constructive meeting. laura: constructive for whom, jp morgan, goldman sachs? not the american people. xi does not meet with foreign leaders unless he s prepa
rule of law, threatened to jail his opponents. demonized minority, praised dictators abroad, and sought to seize power despite losing an election. when such despottic figures emerge, the political party has two options, push back while reasserts democratic principles or remake the party in his image. republicans have quite clearly chosen the latter path unfortunately. it s unbelievable, it s sort of beyond dispute, again, that you can that there s any sort of fight. i mean, there are two people fighting against it named liz cheney and adam kinzinger. everyone has rolled over. what are the prospects people keep thinking trump will go away. trump isn t really the point anymore, and i don t think he ll go away. this is who they are. how does it end? unfortunately, i thought there was a real opportunity to move beyond trump for the republican party, and i think that the recent election in virginia shows what happens,
overall strategy on north korea. but a regime who murders someone in a public airport using nerve agent and a despottic leader who murders his brother in that manner, that s clearly an act of terrorism that fits in with a range of other actions, so this is something that s under consideration. you ll hear more about that soon. yes, front and center. using the rhetoric in his speech about north korea when he s that close to the boarder? will he be meeting with putin on the sidelines? will he be bringing up human rights? okay, so the president will use whatever language he wants to use obviously. what the president has done is clarified in all of his discussions, the statements on north korea, our determination to ensure that north korea s not able to threaten our allies and partners and certainly the
despottic regime, which actually punishes journalists more than just about any other country. mika, it s the trend is unmistakable. thank you. this man worships autocrats. he admires them. he admires them seizing power and he has very little respect for whom people that run western-style democracies, he gets if fights with the merkels, he gets if fights with the macrons. he gets if fights with the mays. he doesn t get in fights with tyrants, of course, you know, it speaks actually to his intentions when you hear him stripping licenses from networks with whom he disagrees. i think you nailed it. you talk to anybody from a countries not built on the foundations of democracy, they will tell you this is how it
and then the white house had the gall to say it s inappropriate to question the chief of staff, general kelly, on this issue because he was a four-star marine general. you know, that s what that s exactly what these sort of tinpot dictatorships say when they cover them, and it s embarrassing to have that happen in the u.s. to be clear, after she was questioned about that comment, she klain she didn t say he couldn t be questioned, but that he put himself out there to make that statement, and that, you know, he believed it was credible. that aside, you know, speak of despottic countries you went to north korea recently. a new poll says that 62%, six in ten think the way that president trump has responded is reckless,