you know, drink to a little bit done. great assignment, don have fun this morning continues right now. mike pence, headed to the witness stand and the boj s january 6th investigation. this would be the first time that a former vice president testifies about his former boss and criminal investigation. do you think that there will be more than he can shed light on, particularly when it comes to his conversations with the former president, having the vice president of united states with a special counsel under oath, i think adds enormous value. take our support for the people of taiwan seriously, the white house has tried to downplay the historic nature of the meeting, trying not to overreact, threatening to fight back of violation of its sovereignty. the speaker of the house, there is no place that china is going to tell me where i can go or who i can speak to. concern is mounting in the middle east after israeli police and palestinians clashed at one of islam s holiest sites d
house, one of the lawmakers who met with presidents i. yesterday congressman seth moulton of massachusetts. he serves on the house select committee on china. congressman it s great to have you here, can we actually start with mj s last piece of reporting there that it s just unclear if there was any involvement in the white house and preppy mccarthy and you guys for this meeting? can you answer that because the stance they ve taken has been really neutral and uninvolved. is that correct? i did not receive any white house administration briefings. i m not sure if the speaker of the house did or not, but look, this is a very bipartisan event , and it s a it s a routine event presents. i met with leader hakeem jeffries at the democratic party in new york just a couple of days ago, and this was a very bipartisan discussion that we had yesterday in california. it certainly was . i mean, we all remember nancy , former house speaker nancy pelosi s trip to meet with them with presidents i in t