good to have you with us. right now the second in person summit of the quad is under way in tokyo. leaders of the informal alliance of the u.s., japan, australia and india are now holding talks one on one. u.s. president biden has been meeting with indian prime minister. also expected to speak with australia s new prime minister. one key focus of all these meetings, russia s war on ukraine. russia s assault on ukraine only heightens the importance of those goals. fundamental principles of international order. territorial integrity and sovereignty. international law, human rights, must always be defended. regardless of where they are violated in the world. so the quad has a lot of work ahead of us. this caps off his trip to asia in attempt to bolster u.s. alliances in the region. and counter china s growing dominance. the visit hasn t been without controversy. the white house is walking back biden s comments that the u.s. would be willing to defend taiwan militarily if chi
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including vaccine support, emergency and critical technology, counter terrorism, and the building of supply chains not dependent on any one country. although the quad isn t a nato like mutual defense commitment, experts say continuing to upgrade security cooperation between quad member states is important towards maintaining maritime security and to achieve the goal experts are saying we ll see more naval drills in future along with opportunities to share technology and intelligence. all right. many thanks to all of you for bringing us up to date on the situation. appreciate it. heavy fighting has been reported in parts of eastern ukraine where russian forces have been intensifying their attacks in recent weeks. one official says russian missile strikes have damaged the railway infrastructure in the
task for democrats to keep power in the house. before we get to the president s voting rights push on the hill today, let s do one more on the poll, this one about donald trump. some believes that new vaccine support, he s out spoken in recent weeks about it is a factor sinking support among republicans. what is your sense? do you think other factor in place and if trump were not to run in 2024, all signs pointing to donald trump running so far. he s raising money like he would want to and trying to stay active in the cycle. i think his push on the vaccines have been something. he s lashed out on that and lashing out on other republicans desantis for not saying he s
your thoughts on trump being eviscerated for his vaccine support. a pro trump radio host recently said that he needs an intervention from a friend. this is an example, where a lot of with the right-wing media ultimately is, trump is a focal point for. what made trump so powerful and influential, was the fact he was channeling and harnessing a bunch of different components of the fever swamps and the right-wing media. they were than amplifying, echoing back the things he was saying. there was a feedback loop. but we shouldn t make any mistake. the power behind trump was the actual media. right-wing echo chamber that we are talking about here. not trump himself. when you point out this vaccine example, it s a runaway. he lost his twitter account. he lost his facebook presence. he lost his social media channels to be able to influence and directly control the narrative. influence in a heavier way. they continue to run with that story. that vaccines were part of a