Well, good evening everyone, im laura coast. A week that began with merrick garland, one of the most powerful democrats in washington, d. C. Now being charged with corruption. Conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. Essentially using his official position to force someone to give him something of value. Tonight we are taking a deep dive into all of it from the investigation to the indictment and of course the political fallout and here are the Big Questions ive been asking all day after seeing all the reports thats cut through all of it. Here are the real yes, sir, number one, did he do it . Did he do it . Could a senator who left a hung jury in his last trial, led to personal favors really have been so imraizenbrabrazen a a second sometime around . Is corruption at its very finest, could the rules force him to step down there his position as chairman oar from the senate or maybe will the better question is will he actually do that .
told our aishah hasnie just weeks ago. you think we are prepared for this to happen in the next five years? i sign off on all florida military weapons sales we have a problem with our defense industrial base. these weapons i ve sign off on to taiwan, 22 weapons sales i signed off three years ago. they have yet to go into count country. shannon: center, three years ago and now it looks like another round of provocation from china this morning. or can lawmakers do if anything to speed up these deliveries? as i think we need to do that. we ve got to give taiwan the ability to defend themselves. though i hope that we will find a way to get to taiwan exactly what they need. look, we believe in one china policy but we also believe mainland china cannot try to take taiwan over by force.
to be. if we re going to have deterrence for peace, we need to get these weapons into taiwan. i ve i sign off on all foreign military weapons sales 22 weapons systems over three years ago, chuck, that have yetn to get into taiwan onto the island that will provide the deterrence to chairman xi to think twice about an invasion, and, secondly, is the combat training that is occurring on the island, we need to ramp that up to alarmer scale so they can provide that projection of strength and deterrence. they re not where they need to be right now do you have a sense of what the taiwanese people want? and i say that in that we know presort of what china before it took over hong kong there was always a sense that a lot of people in taiwan wanted some sort of relationship with mainland china that was
told our aishah hasnie just weeks ago. you think we are prepared for this to happen in the next five years? i sign off on all florida military weapons sales we have a problem with our defense industrial base. these weapons i ve sign off on to taiwan, 22 weapons sales i signed off three years ago. they have yet to go into cou country. shannon: center, three years ago and now it looks like another round of provocation from china this morning. or can lawmakers do if anything to speed up these deliveries? as i think we need to do that. we ve got to give taiwan the ability to defend themselves. though i hope that we will find a way to get to taiwan exactly what they need. look, we believe in one china policy but we also believe mainland china cannot try to take taiwan over by force.
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