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and not. thanks for joining us. our team covering this from around the asia region and thanks for joining us today. i m jim sciutto at this hour with kate bolduan starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello, i m kate bolduan. we re following breaking news. nancy pelosi arrived in taijuan, arriving moments ago for a visit that s been controversial and speculated about for weeks now. the visit never publicly confirmed but been public knowledge for sometime. the white house concerned and warning pelosi about the visit although never actually telling the house speaker not to go. in the meantime, u.s. officials are closely watching china to see how beijing could respond to the visit. officials offered several veiled threats including a warning that the chinese military would not stand idly by if the sovereignty was infringed upon. taking a look at the pictures of speaker pelosi getting off the plane in the middle of the night in taipei. will ripley is ....
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 ....
christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. he s heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wife s hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether he s in or out of the race, and yesterday for the very first time, cain admitted that getting out is an option. he okay knowledged he did give money to the woman he said she had a 13 jeer-year affair with . his wife only found out about ginger white when the rest of us did. that is correct, and she was hurt that she didn t know about this friend that i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. ginger white spoke to lawrence o donnell on msnbc last night and again insistented it was a lot more than just a friendship. and talked about why they texted each other dozens of times over the past two months. at the end of the day i nope that know that i am telling the truth. i ....
and good morning, everyone. it s friday, december 2nd. ali and carol are both off today. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. so glad you got the memo. i know. we re both feeling a lot like christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. he s heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wife s hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether he s in or out of the race, and yesterday for the very first time, cain admitted that getting out is an option. he okay knowledged he did give money to the woman he said she had a 13 jeer-year affair with . his wife only found out about ginger white when the rest of us did. that is correct, and she was hurt that she didn t know about this friend that i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. ginger white spoke to lawrence o donnell on msnbc last n ....