white house starts right now. hey, everyone. 4:00 in new york i m in for nicolle wallace. justice and accountability. more than a year after a harrowing attack that shocked this country, the ongoing political violence at the forefront, the jury found david depape guilty on counts of attempted kidnap taing of a federal official and assaulting a family member of a federal official. talking husband of nancy pelosi, paul pelosi, with a hammer in their home back in october of last year. depape faces life in prison. nancy pelosi they are deeply grateful for outpouring of prayers and warm wishes for mr. pelosi across country during this difficult time. the pelosi family is proud he densated extraordinary bravery and demonstrated in the courtroom this week. he felt in immediate danger when depape arrived at the doorstep in the middle of the night. the nbc news, the door opened a very large man came in with a hammer in one hand, zip ties in the other and he said, where s nancy.
so the big story right now, president biden and chinese president xi jinping man on man as we all sit. they re behind closed doors right now. all of these issues, ukraine, taiwan, israel, iran all elephants in the room, whether or not they get a head-on part of this discussion today. what about china s burgeoning relationship with iran? that as iranian proxies are attacking our troops. will the president say anything to the chinese president about what he might be able to do to influence that situation? you remember back in march when president xi was handed an unprecedented third term as president. officials here warned this. we assess that during the course of xi s third term, they will put together and attempt taiwan on unification, undercut u.s. influence which they perceive as a threat, drive wedges between washington and its allies and partners and promote certain norms that favor china s authoritarian system. martha: in moments, mike gallagher who is central to our
you re going to see her in a few moments on video explaining this to georgia prosecutors. we re just making sense of it, and we have that for you this hour as well as something else, quite special, a brand new interview with legendary journalist, bob woodward. we caught up with him in washington for the summit series that debuts tonight. this is brand new. we were work in georgetown near his home where he took me through his personal library. we get a look inside the home library and a political journalistic history that we can tell you quite clearly, you will not see anywhere else. tonight, that s coming up, bob woodward new on the beat. all the heat on donald trump, from the coup news i just mentioned to why historians and other experts say there s a very certain way you have to confront some of what he said this weekend. our top story right now is the big news out of the supreme court which has been absolutely under fire for months over the revelations that justice cla
summit, and meeting with xi, the white house likely to face questions what to expect with u.s. and china relations at a tipping point like we have seen over the last several months. and talk about what you have been mentioning at the top of the last hour, the attacks on u.s. and coalition forces across the middle east. now more than 50 attacks. u.s. launching a fresh round of airstrikes overnight, trying to target some of the iranian proxies that have been carrying out the attacks. at least six fighters were killed on the missile strikes, and so far no reports of any injuries to any of those u.s. service members who were carrying out the attack or the attacks the iranian groups fired. a tit for tat, as for president biden, he has not spoken to reporters today. he got back to the white house a little earlier today to welcome the las vegas hockey team in the east room, but also an event later this afternoon with the president of indonesia. see if the president weighs in not onl
for a criminal indictments, four criminal trials barreling towards him. and now the former president is openly threatening to weaponize the justice department against his political opponents if he takes back the white house. congressman jamie raskin is here with his reaction, and he s coming up first. plus, special counsel jack smith unveils a big clue about how he plans to prosecute his case. as trump s lawyers ask for his federal trial to be televised. the law firm of andrew weissmann and niel cattiel is here to weigh in on all of it. also today, resounding victories for democrats and crucial races all across the country, as republican culture wars fall completely flat. we ll talk about what it means for 2024 and beyond. and later, a trip to the forum, a bike ride through georgia with raphael warnock. we talk about the fight for democracy, the former president, and balancing his life as a pastor with his life as a united states senator. after a long stretch of dark po