dramatically reduces redness in one minute. look at the difference, eyes brighter and whiter eight hours. it was love at first sight with efi. see for yourself. good afternoon. i m erica hill. thanks for joining us in the cnn newsroom and i m bianna golodryga, a major display today of democratic solidarity in china is watching it all right now in the outskirts of los angeles, taiwan s president, sighing wind is meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy and other bipartisan leaders. it comes as taipei s relations with china steadily crumble and us chinese tensions continually rise over aggressive spying in beijing support for russia. but the u. s. does remain steadfast in its support for the tiny island nation next hour. we do expect, speaker mccarthy and president said to deliver joint statements from the reagan presidential library, and we will bring those to you live, joining us now. cnn s senior international correspondent, will ripley, who was in taipei and cnn chief whit
the argument that mike pence was making was the best one legally. so i think what we re really looking for is when could we see mike pence in front of a grand jury and sarah cnn s learning that former trump national security officials from the department of homeland security , chad wolf and ken cuccinelli have testified to a federal grand jury about trump s efforts and desire to seize voting machines. after the 2020 election. they said that they told the president and his team that he had no authority to do so. this really speaks to how special counsel jack smith is zeroing in. on the various ways . trump tried to overturn his election loss. that s right. i mean, this is excellent reporting from my colleagues at cohen sort of looking at how the special counsel is digging into a bunch of these schemes the trump team considered to try to overturn the 2020 election. of course, we know that one of these sort of crazy ideas under consideration was seizing the voting machines, and
to important star stormy daniels karen macdougall and a door man at trump power. o2015 to 2017 payments. all 34 counts date back to 2017 only. as you can see here president trump pled not guilty to charges. the ex-president will will raised his fist and waived to audience. he returned to palm beach to defend himself unprecedented charges against him. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is so fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. trump used his address to go after manhattan d.a. alvin bragg calling the charges against him a political attack. the manhattan judge who presided over trump s arraignment warned the ex-president not to make any statements that could incite violence. the former president called him a quote trump hating judge. d.a. al
of falsifying business records, typically just a misdemeanor, and district attorney s alvin bragg s strategy for elevating the charges is on shaky legal ground. here s the new york post, calling the case trumped up. the paper writes, is that it? bragg s historic cases versus don falls flat. meanwhile the da defending his controversial decision to bring a case against a former u.s. president. your predecessor took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. federal prosecutors took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. do you believe you have new evidence that led you to decide to charge this, or why now? we ve had additional evidence. this is the business capital of the world. we regularly do cases involving false business statements. the bedrock, in fact the basis for business integrity at a well-functioning business marketplace is true and accurate record-keeping. that s the charge that s brought here. falsifying new york state busine
both sides about when is his next court date, and when could he stand trial our full coverage. also tonight, the dangerous tornado threat more than 40 million on alert in the south and midwest, including areas still reeling from deadly storms al roker is here for the first time the officers who took down the nashville school shooter speak out. what went through their minds as they raced toward the gun fire and the uconn huskies winning it all in the family dynasties inspiring america. announer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it was a legal spectacle never seen before in america with potentially unprecedented political ramifications, as well donald trump, the former president and current presidential candidate, walking into a new york courtroom after being fingerprinted and being charged with 34 felonies the charges stemming from a series of alleged hush money payoffs to an adult film star in hope of avoiding scandals as he ra