retaliation. senator tom cotton calling on the white house to take a stronger stand against china in support of taiwan. president biden and the white house is going out of their way to minimize this visit, to say it s merely a private visit, not to defend the rights of senators and congressmen. not only are we going to continue this practice, but we ll stand up to any provocation that china undertakes in the western pacific because of these meetings. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse l live in si valley. with many western countries angry for china right now for a variety of reasons, this is an opportunity and pivotal moment for taiwan, which is about the size of maryland with a population of florida. taiwan is david. china is goliath. that s one reason president tsai needs support not just from the white house, but members of congress, including speaker pelosi, formerly, of course, and speaker mccarthy to counter that threat. china claims the island as i
experts assembled here tonight, some breaking news. the january 6th committee has subpoenaed donald trump today. using its final hearing to make this historic move, which paves a path to the first ever clash between donald trump and the congress over whether he will show up, speak under oath, tell the truth. that s our top story. tonight we will also be covering other breaking news coming out of the supreme court this afternoon. the supreme court rejecting donald trump s filing in that mar-a-lago stolen documents case. this ruling rebuffs trump s attempt to try to slow down any review of the classified documents, which the government says he stole, and this came out with no dissents, meaning no justice siding with or on behalf of donald trump s position nor his effort to involve the high court in what would be a standard review of stolen stuff. later tonight we ll report on this newly revealed footage from inside the congress in safe zones, bunkers and other rooms where congr
56 hours until the polls open with a leader is campaigning for every single one of your votes, but what is really going on behind the scenes? welcome to newsnight, for your nightly interviews and insight. and we will bring both to you on the week when you decide who s going to run our country for the next five years. tonight, we have the man who compiles the exit poll which you will see at 10pm this thursday on the bbc one election programme, professor sirjohn curtice. that should give you us, we hope the first accurate forecast of the election result. we also we have harriet harman, former labour minister, former labour deputy leader and an mp for over a0 years, standing down this time. and we have sir craig oliver, former director of communications for prime minister david cameron. welcome. and nick is here as always. cards on the table, i m after numbers, sir craig oliver, what would be a best and worst case scenario for the conservatives politically this thursday? the
the president s plan calls for an end to combat operations in afghanistan next year and a withdraw by the end of the 2014. the president says afghanistan s president hamid karzai is onboard. both oof us recognize that we still have a lot of work to do and there will be great challenges ahead. the loss of life continues in afghanistan. there will be hard days ahead, but we re confident that we re on the right track and what this summit reflects is the world is behind this strategy that we ve laid out. the big hurdle now to cross is the cost. the country doesn t have all the cash it needs. nato secretary general is optimistic that other countries will pitch in to help meet the roughly $4 billion price tag. the obama campaign headquarters, just outside the nato summit in chicago. look at this. protesters on one side, police on the other, pushing back and forth. this was on sunday. several officers were injured. today, the superintendent of police defends his officers action