Good evening, im jim acosta. Joining me in moments, president potential candidate vivek ramaswamy, whose name showed up in a ron desantis debate memo as the rival to attack on the stage. Hillary spawn that and more. But first, in just a few moments, in the date on the calendar will be april 2026. Thats two years, seven months from now. Thats nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. And just a year and a half before the 2028 election. And yet, donald trump and his lawyers are suggesting that date for his trial in the federal case on his efforts to overturn the election. Its their counter to jack smiths proposal to start this january. Meantime, the former president , in his first on camera reaction to the george indictment, has a warning to his party. Disgraceful thing. And republicans cant let him get away with it. Republicans have to be tough. The republicans are great in many ways, but they dont fight as hard for this. They have to get a lot tougher. If they, dont theyre not
face to face, finally. the presidents of two superpowers, playing nice after a year of tough talk. that is tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. tonight, president biden calls important progress between the united states, and china. the specifics may seem small, but the american president calls the areas of agreement, important. on fentanyl, on keeping the phones open between military s, and on artificial intelligence. today, we watched carefully orchestrated diplomatic theater between these two superpowers. a handshake, a walk outside, a hollywood mansion in woodside california, but the stakes are far more consequential than fiction. to take a tumultuous year and, basically, put it to the side. you and i understand each other clearly, leader to leader, with no misconceptions, or miscommunications. we must ensure that competition does not veer into conflict. only a short while ago, at a rare press conference, the president calle
i think exporting our second amendment is a relatively low cost way to do that. i find it laughable that you will take that, clip and then put words into my mouth as if that was a sufficient deterrent. with due respect, that s a joke, . we re not putting it s not putting words into your mouth, and it s not saying that you did not say those other. things it saying that you did say that part of your i never said it was efficient. this is really funny, it s been a very educational here for me to learn how media. works no one ever said that was sufficient to, invasion from india to russia, to what i ve said we would, to enter the indian specific, this is the stuff of actual deterrence, and also strategic clarity that would actually defend taiwan with. i do think i am the president who best knows how to deter china from going after taiwan, before we ve achieved semiconductor independents, which is the most important policy we can deliver. i give a specific speech at the nixon librar
of reasoning that you re gonna call them an allied nation to push back on my strategic vision of clarity, is a farce and betrays what our posture is in the first place. what i ll bring to our foreign policy is honesty that will advance our interests. i m moving for strategic ambiguity to be very clear, that we will defend taiwan until we achieve semiconductor independents. i expect that to happen by the end of my first term in 2028. necessarily will change. to be clear, after that, by being clear, what that really means is taiwan between now and then can actually spend what it should be spending on national defense. taiwan spends less than 2% of gdp on its military. that is shameful. taiwan needs to be spending over 4% of its gdp. but by being strategically clear, we give taiwan a chance to build up its own defense capabilities and china will also know that it is absolutely not in china s interest, not any rational actor in china
committed. but you said later you wait for the facts to come out, if there are some big surprises, you may reconsider that? my assumption is that the worst statement of the facts, the most prosecution favor favorable version of the fact is in the indictment. in 99.9% of legal cases, that s exactly how it works in the united states, and i said that on day one when i made my commitment that was my assumption. let s talk about china. you talked about china. you proposed to radio host hugh hewitt that the u.s. should help taiwan deter a chinese invasion. until the u.s. has a chief quote, semiconductor independents. does it support our interest to support a country s territorial integrity and told him no longer useful to us? i think that moving from strategic ambiguity to strategic clarity is actually a good thing from the united states to advance our interests and to avoid war, as well as to be a more trusted partner. i don t think it s credible