with more. happening right now in missouri search and rescue efforts are happening as a massive tornado ripped through the state. plus, what you need to know about what s being calleded the most consequential election in the year liberals have a won of the supreme court in a major battleground state that could shape the 2024 race. and in chicago a win for progressives in the highly watched mayoral race and just hours from now a high profile meeting between house speaker mccarthy and the president of taiwan despite warnings from beijing. how the chinese government is responding coming up this morning former president donald trump is plotting his next legal steps one day after becoming the first american president ever to appear in court as a criminal defendant. trump is accused of falsifying business records as part of what prosecutors say is an illegal conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election manhattan district attorney alvin bragg says hush money payments were made to
military moves and come in the potential of military shifts in the military strait. they re not specifically tying it to this meeting, but the timing is probably more than a little coincidental, jose. so this meeting is significant for the u.s. because it shows the continuing support for taiwan as you know the u.s. doesn t have formal diplomatic relations. they have unofficial relations with the taiwanese government here in taipei, but again this meeting a high level on both sides is very significant for the taiwanese president showing senior members of the u.s. house of congress, in fact the highest member of the speaker of the house is showing his support and standing next to her at this meeting. now, of course we all saw what happened after then speaker pelosi, nancy pelosi when she visited last year, we saw what happened the chinese military responded with unprecedented drills including live fire
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you ve had, of course, this riots and street battle going on. we ll wait and see how it s involves. and if it s going on, we ll certainly cover it? ands who side is the army on? reporter: that s a vd good question. it appears to me as though the soldiers who are down there on tahrir square have sort of quite a good relationship with the protesters. it seems as though they re friendly with them. it appears at this point it time it has at least backed off hosni mubarak. there are a lot of people who indicate that if the military shifts in one direction or the other that it would change the entire game. that if mubarak were to lose the military, he would be out of office at this point. there s no indication of that happening. at the same time the military