welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefi
to be showers. the showers are not going to be widespread today. as is the way with to be widespread today. as is the way with showers, some places will completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the places completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the places that completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the places that could - it is one of the places that could avoid the showers. i will tell you why. showers across most of the country are pretty random in nature, across the south west of nature we have showers across inland areas. places like st austell, taunton and bristol, you are underneath the convergence zone and you could see shower after shower. places like hampshire and dorset are probably staying entirely dry. temperatures, like we have seen over recent days into the high teens, in the best of any sunshine across the east, low 20s. look at this cloud working to the north west of franc
with conservative members. the two of them have faced off tonight in wales. and a hosepipe ban for gardeners in parts of southern england. but how are the farmers coping with the lack of rain? we ll be live in essex to find out. tonight with the context, the former adviser to hillary clinton, amanda renteria, and former senior adviser to george w bush, ron christie. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. she was there less than 2a hours, but the fallout from nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan looks like it might endure for some time. china is about to begin three days of live fire military exercises barely 12 nautical miles off shore, which taiwan says amounts to an air and sea blockade. such was the military response to the speaker s visit yesterday, the flight that transferred her from malaysia to taiwan was forced to take a three hour detour around the phillippines. and it remains tense. at one point today, taiwan scrambled its own fighterjets to ward off those from china tha
Correspondent has more on those developments. If the west wants to stop russias advances in ukraine, they know here is one place they know here is one place they can do that. Now, beijing is not supplying moscow with weapons, but the west believes it is supplying russia with components that it can use in its war machine. The us has a raft of new sanctions at the ready, this time to target chinese banks. So president xi has a decision to make. For more on that relationship, i spoke to a former Us Ambassador to china from 2011 to 2014. Vladimir putin really wanted to play up Vladimir Putin really wanted to play up the significance of this meeting with xi jinping play up the significance of this meeting with xijinping in china, and he said that he and xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xijinping xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xi jinping sees xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xijinping sees it that way . You think xi jinping sees it that way . You think xi jinping
House democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected. Disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide. And it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. And hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle, just this week, as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that mean . What does that mean . It means he