house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan s air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i m speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan s president and to visit taiwan s parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. tonight the biden administration is warning china. there s no reason, as i said yesterday, for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretexts to increase aggressiveness and military activity in or around the taiwan strait now or beyond her trip. now the biden team has been struggling to separate biden from pelosi. f
tonight polls closing soon in key primary races across five states. all eyes on arizona where the race for governor has been a proxy war between former president donald trump and his former vice president, mike pence. that race pitts trump-backed lake against karen taylor robson who pence endorsed. caroline is out front in scottsdale covering this race all the way through and you ve been talking to a lot of voters there today, on primary day. what have you learned? reporter: well, just about 2 1/2 hours left of voting here, and we ve been speaking to a good bit of the republicans who have been coming to this particular polling place. and what they ve been telling us is even though the election lie and trump s endorsement has really run through and coarsed through so many of these races here on the republican side of the arizona primary, that the reason why they re coming are other reasons. sure, it may have bumped them one way or the other but they re
let s get some perspectives and maybe we ll look back. he does not have a megaphone that he used to have but conspiracy theories still kind of coarsed through the veins of americans. we have a lot of people who are really, really hell-bent on vaccines and masks that even though donald trump vaccinated, does go back to him. i just worry that biden, everybody expected or thought at best he would be a transitional figure and that would help america move beyond these sorts of phase and polarization. i feel like it s getting worse. i think we are in a transition periods. we know we have discussed this this morning already. glenn youngkin is a template of
let s bring in david chod. david, great to have you with us on this. there is a serious conversation that is happening and it s been happening but one that is more and more out in the open is people feel more emboldened as we ve seen, especially if they want to talk about things that many of us would look at as openly racist, bigoted comments and standings that they have. where do you see this country today? well, obviously our country is divided and it s divided by our leaders in part and the president of the united states. he has made it a strategy to mine these differences, mine these divisions, mine this issue of race which has coarsed through our politics and our society from the beginning of our history but is a galvanizing issue of a portion of his base and he decided to play base
number one, one mock town hall, which is this or mock debate prep which this is is not going to get you where you need to be in basically a week and a half after the last debate which was, you know, the aftermath of which was calamitous for him in terms of the polls. also being interviewed by a very trump friendly moderator. the questions are pre screened. so this is not at all like what the conditions are going to be like on sunday night. and both trump and hillary clinton sort of struggle to emote, struggle to connect. that is challenge for both but trump has done smouch less of this than clinton has. his town halls during the primaries often felt coarsed. strained. his interactions he got better at the later ones but he didn t do many of them. retail politics is not his thing. so he has a couple of