house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan s air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i m speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan s president and to visit taiwan s parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. tonight the biden administration is warning china. there s no reason, as i said yesterday, for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretexts to increase aggressiveness and military activity in or around the taiwan strait now or beyond her trip. now the biden team has been struggling to separate biden from pelosi. f
stand by the high stakes missions to take out the world s most wanted terrorist. the pentagon wiped the phones at the end of the trump admini administration. i ll get reaction from a member of the january 6th select committee. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, wolf blitzer is off, i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin with house speaker nancy pelosi s controversial trip to taiwan and the added strain it s putting on already tense u.s. relations with china. cnn selina wang has a report from beijing. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi staying overnight in taiwan, ignoring relentless warnings from beijing that there would be grave consequences. speaker pelosi touching down in taipei just before 11:00 p.m. local time, becoming the most senior u.s. official to visit taiwan in 25 years. but the high-stakes, high-risk visit also comes at a delicate moment for u.s./china relations. speaker pelosi expected to meet the t
are looking at triple digit temperatures on top of the flooding, no water, no power. kentuckians have a resiliant spirit. thank you so much. thank you very much for watching. i m pamela brown in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. e erin burnett outfront starts right now. reporter: out front next, pelosi in taiwan. beijing responds. chinese fighter jets and warships circling taiwan. america s ambassador summoned. zawarahi s house. we are learning new details about the attack. it is election night in america. voters casting ballots tonight in five key states. our john king is standing by at the wall to break down what you can expect. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front, on edge.