lincoln s arrival to beijing s arrival shows how frayed the relationship is. only a low level ccp official will be there to him. no red carpet on the tarmac like other dignitaries have received just a redline. lucas tomlinson s life in the white house with more on today s meetings. scott has been five years since u.s. secretary of state has visited china great secretary blinken s last trip was abruptly scrapped back in february when the giant chinese spy balloon floated across the country. some republicans are glad he s finally on the ground. looks all throughout the cold war she continued diplomacy with china. we should have ongoing arms control talks but despite all the things that all the complaints we had a leak from the lab. we have a lot of discussions and needs to occur. i wish blinken well invite is making a trip. vice president biden called the chinese spy balloon incident and embarrassment for beijing a republican lawmaker says is the opposite. x it s embarrassing f
siphon votes away from the democrat and help elect a republican. and help potentially elect donald trump. if you go on their website, they suggest that they can get 37% of the popular vote. and 282 electoral votes. now, if you think that sounds a bit outlandish, they think they can win texas, florida, montana and illinois. that is delusional. the likelihood that that is going to happen is zero. they are spending millions and millions of dollars and all they are going to do is siphon votes, anti trump votes away from democrats. all, right, well nick is telling me we have to. go you have we ve got to the top of the. our i appreciate you both. all of you, in just a few, minutes we re going to unpack these two headlines, with the journalist who cowrote them. the first is about the former presidents attachment to his boxes. the other is what one person close to trump called an unforced error. trump rejected lawyers efforts to avoid indictment. here we, are a minute, late but
observation of juneteenth as a federal holiday coming as our largest blue state has a historic conversation on reparations for its black residents. i am conflicted tonight. as i watch any number of republican politicians and voters pledge the enduring support for donald trump, seeking a return to the white house well facing a 37 count federal indictment after years of white racial grievance for political gain, paving the way for other gop politicians including the 2024 competitors to attack racial progress in public life. i struggle to justify why, in my mind, america deserves a day off for work, made possible by black history so many republicans now insist should be banned from our institutions. despite the conflict in, me i m still grateful to see that black history recognized at a national level. i just want to see our nation at large are in the holiday created in its name. me now is congressman barbara lee the democrat of california. currently running for the u.s. sen
thanks for joining us. fear not. nicolle will be back tomorrow. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber. after all this breaking news coverage of trump s indictment we have been at the table. all of our colleagues following this. tonight we turn from this fast fluid first draft of history to a wider view of how history may absorb this historic precedent breaking week, because tonight pulitzer prize winning journalist bob woodward who you see on the right will analyze what you see on the left. he s known for best selling books, including about now defendant donald trump. he is our exclusive guest tonight on the beat. we begin as the nation absorbs the fallout of something many thought was impossible, even recently, something donald trump said would roil the country, the former president arrested by the same government he once ran. that was yesterday. jack smith spoke out through his filing, through his team in court, and today
and fingerprinted a federal court appearance captured by a sketch artist. you re seeing one such example. these moments you re looking at here are that which donald trump has blatantly tried to overshadow with this is own series of events and speeches and recent pr programming. well, we can all see how this case is different right now. the early reporting is focused on how it will follow a traditional trajectory. the new york times puts it that way. next up we have a date for trump codefendant walt nauta to enter his plea, june 27th. and then traditionally, the status conference hearings that you would see over a course of couple months, the government supplying evidence to the defense. and that material can then inform the defense lawyers strategies. trump s lawyers may try a kind of more serious investigation of this odd defense that trump has been publicly mounted that the de the classified documents he says were secretly or magically declassified before he left offic