an update now on u.s. esent joe biden s asia trip. the whe use responding a short time ago saying u.s. policy has not changed regarding chinantaiwan. after the president said the u.s. would respond militarily should china use force to take taiwan. let s go back to c, who joins us fm tokyo, good to see you again. another clarifation from the white house on what present biden had toay, and it is not the first time that he s done this. was under an hour after , it president biden said yes, the u.s. is willing to respond militarily should china invade taiwan, the white hous now out with a stament that says as the presint said, our
in the end, what s next? what does the white house think will get kyrsten sinema and joe manchin to yes? is there a plan? well, that is the million dollar questi. what is the plan, and how can these two senators be placated, essentially, into signing onto these bills? my sense is they don t want to put the preside in the place of pleading or begging because he is a psident of the united states. i was talking to a lawmaker yesterday. they say, you never want to put the presint in a room and put him in a position where he is the one doing the begging and pleading. so what s really going on here is the president is going to these senators, havin a conversation that goes like this, what do you want? what does your state want? how can i get you something that cements your legacy, that is in line with what you want to see done? then he s going to his staff. then you sit with someone like chief of staff ron klain, and that s when the person gets sort of more tough and says, we need you to g
there s not a lot of other things to do. politics are ongoing, but this is going to be an issue for schumer to figure out. there s just no sense that mitch mcconnell is going to help him out. all right. now, the latest information from t trumppresidency. stephanie grisham, presint donald trump s third press secretary and chief of staf to former first lady melania tmp is out with a new book next week, that according to the washington post alleges a litany of misdeeds by the 45th president. from ogling a young female staffer t orchestrating lies for e pubc to attempting to ban the ns media from the white house mpound. the book entitled i ll take your questions now also provides a rare look at the interaction between trump and russian president vladimir putin. in pages obtained by nbc news, grisham provides a first-hand
yeah, i think it s really clear what happened, nicole, which is that early on in the process, when the president was deciding what timeline we should withdraw on, because of course trump had said, let s get out by may, and biden ultimately decided to decelerate that timeline. the military leadership was saying, let s keep 2,500 troops in afghanistan. the president weighed that. there was an iterative process. there were many meetings, many decisions, and the presint disagreed with that advice, which is his responsibility to do, to weigh it and consider it, and he said, no, we re going to be out by august 31st. break, bak. later, in august, after the fall of kabul, after we were already evacuating tens of thousands of people from the airport in kabul, the president asked his military advisors again, shod we stay longer than august 31st? and ifunanimously, the chairman, general mckenzie,he leaders on the ground said, no, we should n stay and the president followed that advice. i think
pittsburgh. and the synagogue shooting caps off a week here in the ited states that also included a wave of pipe bombs being sent by mail. critics of president trump, top democrats and this network were targeted. the pipe bombs wer intercepted. the suspect arrested on friday, the man that you see here. caesar sayoc. he s set to appear at a miami court in the coming hours. sayoc faces a string of charge ands could get up to 48 years in prison if convicted. thankfully no one was kild or injured by the bombs he allegedly sent. so, let s talk more about this with juliet. a former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security and a cnn u.s. security analyst. and she joins me now from boston, massachusetts. good to have you with us. thank you for having me. well, it was a tough week and, juliet, the mass shooting at the synagogue in pittsburgh on saturday shocked the nation, and saw the presint suggested