i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a four-hour summit with chinese president xi jinping. in northern california. we are expecting the president to take questions from the press any minute now, right there at that venue at woodside, california. today s event was the first time that president xi and president biden had met face to face in a year. it s only the second time that they had spoken in person since biden had been elected president. it s also the first visit of president xi to the united states since he met with then president trump at mar-a-lago. of course, more than six years ago. the two presidents held and expanded, bilateral meeting for two hours of southern noon, before having a more smaller, private meeting at 4:30 pm eastern time. there is a lot to talk about, to say the least. at the top of the agenda, a number of unfolding political geo crises. the white house is taking a renewed effort from china to curb the flow of illegal fentanyl in the
that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. good evening, chris. we have in the forthcoming block, a fairly robust discussion about media that is apparently changing its policies to further a bed trump s lies in the context of what he is saying about paul pelosi in that attack. it is a combustible mix. it really is. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. before he was even elected president, donald trump had a journalist kicked out of a press conference just for asking a question. okay, who is next, yes? please? [inaudible] excuse, me sudden, you are called, sit down. i have the right to ask a question. sit down, please. you weren t called. trump looks over at his staff, a bodyguard walks over, and ushers ramos out of the news conference. sit down, sit down, go back to univision. the journalist that trump had his security kick out from that press conference was jor