presidential inauguration. at this crucial mile marker it s important to stare into the mirror of who we really are as a country. two years after lies and conspiracies about trump s big loss led to, quote, medieval combat on the steps of the u.s. capitol between law enforcement and trump supporters. those very same lies that inspired that attack two years ago are now deeply embedded in the politics of the gop. they are the single animating principle behind everything that happens in one of the country s two major political parties. it is in large part due to the fact that the man who, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame in the attack as january 6th select committee member liz cheney put it that would be twice impeached president trump himself as well as his top lieutenants remain the dominant force in the gop. and they insist on continuing to gaslight americans on what actually happened on january 6th to this day, to this hour on this day. just yeste
much sense from the start. secretary blinken wisely has postponed the trip to china. we had to respond in some way, but it seems unlikely that shooting it down accomplishes anything good and opens the door to other reactions from the pla. so congresswoman, what do we do? just let it flyover the rest of our country gathering stuff? well, i think that secretary blinken s delay, his travel postponement was absolutely the appropriate thing to do. i think we have to send a stronger signal to china we don t accept this type of surveillance collection in airspace over the united states. and, you know, i think we need to be more forward leaning towards their provocative action. and our national security strategy, it cleary outlines that we care about a free and open endo pacific, but at the same time we have allowed this continued provocation throughout
for launching a missile. yeah. john, what got done with china? some are saying nothing structural has changed. and china has trump exactly where he wants them. well, that s one part of the equation. if you look at t messaging was very carefully scripted for president trump s asia trip. there are three broad goals. first is trying to get more cooperation to denuclearize north korea. the second was to promote a free and open endo pacific, and third was to promote fair and ethical trade. and for those lenses seeing the administration attribute different kinds of progress. on the business deal side the announcement of over $250 million trade deals, some are on paper and others taken place, but those are the metrics. gore den, 30 seconds. i think you had basically two