meeting moments ago, symbolically at the reagan library is beijing warns the chinese government will quote resolutely fight back plus one day after donald trump s arrest and arraignment in new york. two major developments in the federal case investigating him one a cnn exclusive the grand jury testimony. revealing the trump was warned he could not legally sees voting machines, plus the decision from his vice president, mike pence that could set up his own historic testimony before the special counsel. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with the world s superpowers on edge and potentially provocative show of solidarity between democracies. moments ago, taiwan s president, sighing when wrapped up a news conference with us house speaker kevin mccarthy on the republicans home turf in california in the chinese government is not happy about it. the top official in beijing warning that size visit could lead to a quote serious unquote confrontation with the united sta
come on our country come from outside its borders. here is salvador s president. think what you want about former president trump and the reasons he s being indicted, but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. the united states s about to use, quote, democracy as foreign policy is gone. thousands of miles from new york city in the heart of central america it is very obvious what just happened in that manhattan courthouse. it s obvious to many democrats, too. trump was criminally charged because he is planning to challenge joe biden in the upcoming presidential election. it s really that simple. if donald trump retired in 2020, would he have been arraigned tonight? of course not. most democrats know that. some admit it. politico ran a piece describing president biden s most senior advisers predicting trump will be the nominee. and, now that he has been charged with crimes, will lose the general election. th
outside its borders. with distance comes clarity. so with that in mind, here is salvadoran president niyi bucheli on twitter today, quote, think what you want about former president trump and the reasons he s being indicted, bucheli wrote . but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate, the united states s ability to use democracy as foreign policy is gone. thousands of miles from new york city, in the heart of central america, it is very obvious what just happened at that manhattan courthouse. it s obvious to many democrats to trump was criminally charged because he is planning to challenge joe biden in the upcoming presidential election. it s really that simple. if donald trump had retired in 2020, would he have been arraigned today? of course not. top democrats know that some effectively admitted the liberal blog politico this morning ran a piece describing what it called president joe biden s most seni
not fight a judge s order to testify and about his conversations with mr. trump leading up to january 6th. it comes just a day after mr. trump pleaded not guilty in new york to 34 counts related to hush money payments in 2016. the former president defiant, lashing out at the d.a., the judge, even the judge s family. a growing fallout. also tonight, the deadly tornado outbreak. at least five killed after a twister cut a path of destruction in missouri. 30 million in the risk zone this evening. al roker is tracking it all for us. the brutal killing of a tech titan. the founder of a popular cash app stabbed to death on the street in san francisco. the search for suspects and a motive. the high stakes meeting. speaker kevin mccarthy welcoming taiwan s president to the u.s. our andrea mitchell one-on-one with mccarthy. is he worried the visit will escalate tensions with beijing? in jerusalem the israeli police raid the mosque as fireworks are thrown at them. and after he
stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of