elections. and house speaker kevin mccarthy trading partisan political fights for a diplomatic one, meeting this hour with the president of taiwan mccarthy says the meeting will help make the world safer. china says it s doing just the opposite so a lot to get to we start with today and donald trump embarking on an effort rarely tried in american history running for president while simultaneously fighting criminal charges. his late night speech at mar-a-lago gave us a glimpse of what s to come, a defiant trump surrounded by a loyal band of ardent supporters thumbing through a well-worn political playbook lashing out at his perceived enemies and seeming a little stunned by what happened. i never thought anything like this could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it one of many things that need fact checking. i want to bring in nbc s vaughn hillyard outside
of state earlier today call out china, say that china should not be overreacting to today s meeting. take a listen. these transits by high level taiwanese authorities are nothing new. they re private, they re unofficial, but they ve been going on for years, and president tsai and her predecessors have done the same thing. in fact, every taiwan president has transited the united states at one point or another. beijing should not use the transits as an excuse to take any actions, to ratchet up tensions, to further push at changing the status quo. reporter: now, you ll notice there the u.s. secretary of state very careful with his language he s not calling this a visit. he says it s a transit, tsai
elections. and house speaker kevin mccarthy trading partisan political fights for a diplomatic one, meeting this hour with the president of taiwan mccarthy says the meeting will help make the world safer. china says it s doing just the opposite so a lot to get to we start with today and donald trump embarking on an effort rarely tried in american history running for president while simultaneously fighting criminal charges. his late night speech at mar-a-lago gave us a glimpse of what s to come, a defiant trump surrounded by a loyal band of ardent supporters thumbing through a well-worn political playbook lashing out at his perceived enemies and seeming a little stunned by what happened. i never thought anything like this could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly
wisconsin supreme court race was the biggest news from yesterday even with a former president indicted think about what s happened in places like wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania since 2016, chris. in 2016, donald trump carried all those states he carried wisconsin he carried michigan, and he carried pennsylvania now all those states are electing pro-democracy, pro-freedom democrats over and over and over again, in pennsylvania, across the board, in michigan, across the board, and now in wisconsin, and this is, to me, a result of two big things first, the republican party continues to pick candidates who don t appeal to general election voters, who don t want to fight over the last election that s one part. but the other part is the democrats, i give them credit. they ve gone back to work and do the tactical and message things they need to do to run in the environment they re in today, which most voters are concerned
transited through new york last friday, then meeting with house minority leader as well as a bipartisan delegation of senators, including republican dan sullivan those senators putting out a statement, statements earlier today, sullivan saying that beijing will not dictate who u.s. lawmakers meet with, especially on american soil. chris. erin in simi valley, thank you for that. donald trump s legal team with plenty of time to prepare before the former president s next court appearance, will d.a. alvin brag s case hold up. we re going to talk about that next so people think they re open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can t hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someone s bike is in the shop, then we could borrow someone else s? -no! -no! or you can get a quote with america s number-one motorcycle insurer