we begin this hour with a very public and defiant show of force by the speaker of the house. speaker nancy pelosi walking down in taiwan. you can see the american flag on the tail of pelosi s air force jet lit up moments after touching down. her trip is both high stakes and high danger. she say this is trip reaffirms the unwavering commitment to taiwan s democracy. this moments after pelosi landed, this new threat from beijing, quote, these moves like playing with fire are extremely dangerous. those who play with fire will perish from it. we have been waiting for this. speaker landed, she stepped off the plane defiantly. and china has now respond defiantly with what they re saying are going to be various military exercises happening around the area of taiwan in the coming ho you ares. you re talking about overnight military exercises. we re not exactly sure how it s going to look or sound. will there be anyone in taiwan who can hear echoing booms? this is the dramatic kind
make and sometimes when people are unhappy, they act in a way that could create harm. the work that is accomplished, we ve been working for two and a half years. we re ready to go. reporter: now, of course, she has not said if she s actually going to seek charges against donald trump or his allies but we re expecting her to attempt to get these indictments before a grand jury. my bet on timing is that we re talking about sometime in the next week or two. not in the next day or two. but we are affirmly in the window where she would make these announcements. so in the next week or two. to trump s legal team was tried to disqualify fannie willis but today a judge rejected that. reporter: that is right. this is really a smackdown from a judge here in fulton county, trump s team wanted the district attorney disqualified from the case. she wanted much of the evidence she collected with the special purpose grand jury and interviews with more than 75 witnesses tossed out and here is
and you mentioned that this is not the first time of the speaker s visit to china to taiwan. let me say this. 25 years ago, when the speaker visited taiwan, it was completely wrong. the chinese side was affirmly opposed to it from the start. the u.s. should have learned lessons from it instead of repeating the mistake. and the one mistake cannot justify the following mistake in the same nature. speaker employee say says you have to look around the world, and she sees china violating its agreement with hong kong about the one government, two systems, and it s extra important for the united states to make publicly clear it stands with taiwan. your government objects. it just condemns it. what will it do about it is the
do you think? i think it s great that we have an administration now that positively and affirmly speaks to trans people and speaks to the trans experience. but none of our political leaders are doing enough for our community. we need our political leaders out there on the offense, not just in a defense mode. so they re waiting for these right-wing conservative folks to come at our community when they should have been already ensuring our protections across the board. one more question for you about florida and the don t say gay bill. why do you think governor desantis is so focused on the lgbtq community, so focused that he wants signed into law this don t say gay bill? they have seen success in trying to paint this idea that the lgbtq community is targeting young kids and they just don t understand there has always been a complexity of gender identity.
because i remember one of the key things that the trump people said early on in the transition and representing a foreign country, you can t have a position in this administration. so, i feel like they would not ever have known this about general flynn and then had him in the white house. i do you know, i point out that he did now register and come forward with this fact. but, i m sure that it was a surprise to the trump administration. jeff weaver, do you give the white house the benefit of the doubt? no, absolutely not. look, we ve seen revelation after revelation about contact with the russians by people who are affirmly s squonsed in the white house and now this embarrassing revelation that flynn was representing the turkish government. you know, this is really just another example of either deceit or incompetence on the part of the trump white house.