from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
The governors debate between shaheen,ey, vincent tom irvine, steve french, and morgan reeves. And thursday night, the Fourth District debate between stephen jim mower. R in delaware, chris coons is running for election for his first full term. He won a special election four years ago. He is republican kevin wade. As solidly rated democratic. Here is a look at the debate from last week. They debated for about one hour. This is delaware debates. Welcome. On behalf of delaware public media and the university of Delaware Center for put communication, welcome to delaware debates 2014, made possible with the Financial Support of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Joining me to moderate this debate is Lindsay Hoffman. Andofessor of medication political silence science. The candidates include chris coons, the incumbent, and kevin wade. Welcome to both of you. Divided intoll be two parts. Following a one minute Opening Statement, Lindsay Hoffman and i will pose questions to the
Things that harm no one else. So i want you to understand that i will veto any legislation that interferes with individual liberty. Mr. Parnell is a Big Government republican, and a lot of people view him as a represent representative of oil companies. Mr. Walker is an ex republican who represents a lot of the unions and theyre going to tell you what you want to hear today. And i wont. The only purpose of government is to protect individual liberties, life, and property. I will let you know that i will protect your rights to electronic and medical privacy, marriage, family and religious decisions, victimless crime, business and free trade and gun rights. Sometimes they talk about the Libertarian Party and they say were about guns and weed. Thats not exactly true, but we do want to protect your rights. So again, i want to emphasize that i am very different from my opponents and the way that i am different is in the area of social tolerance and i have run out of time. So thank you very m
Building in dallas and how he may fit a new frightening pattern. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news. Any moment President Trump is going to be departing the white house and heading to his official Reelection Campaign launch in orlando, florida. But he will be leaving behind some upheaval here in washington. He announced his acting secretary of defense is pulling out of the Senate Confirmation of congress process and his final day at the pentagon will be friday. Yet another example of the quite turbulent Trump Administration eclipsing what Campaign Advisers hoped to be a blemishfree day for trump. His combative divorce and his exwife kimberly was arrested and charged for assault that left shanahan with a black eye and bloody nose and the charges were dropped and shanahan was accused of hitting her in the stoma stomach and he vehemently denies. It is unfortunate that a painful and deeply personal family situation from lon
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