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
know, that was good news at the same time. you know, in the first place, you should not be in jail so that s where we are at the moment, and it looks like it any day. now the u. s state department will declare him wrongfully detained. the wall street journal evans employer has an in depth piece about lawford s of a prison, a notorious prison in moscow, where famous dissidents and political prisoners high level prisoners, including americans, you have trevor reid spent time there. paul whelan spent time there and this is how they describe it. it s described as a sterile facility engineered to keep inmates. um, ever seeing one another and isolation that makes lefortovo hard to endure. i want to play sound from one of the most famous dissidents, former prisoners there at 1/4 of a baton sharansky, who was held there, the jewish refugee who now is in israel. he was held there in the 19 seventies. here s what he said about the prison. i had this experience when years ago. and the photo