china has dismissed the elections, saying it doesn t change the fact that from beijing s perspective, taiwan is part of china, and she jinping has been clear in his view that reunification of taiwan with the mainland s, in his eyes, inevitable, and he will use force to achieve that same. it doesn t mean that war is imminent here. tension is likely to escalate. the icy tension that has defined the past eight years, but throughout the day today, people we were talking to and in polling stations, and on the streets, people were saying that this was an election about choosing taiwan s identity, and choosing taiwan s future, and it s just choice asked a be left to the people of taiwan. listen, keeping a close eye on all of this in the future, and we thank you for doing so. janis mackey forero. in a moment, oh the possibilities. who will get the not from donald trump for vice president? we re going to run through the list. list as i bid you all a very good day from msnbc world
you, mike. that s right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it s really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. conflict is always a last resort. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn t want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. would you support that. if the american people support this, the congress will follow. so, you re saying that the option to authorize war powe
charges against him impact the 2024 race. he said he will plead and he pled not guilty to charges and came only hours after she was indicted. take a listen. donald trump: the only crime i ve commit side to fearlessly deupon fended our nation. radical left lunatics want to interfere by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. this is a persecution, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of falsifying document to hide hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is alleged from august 2016 to 2017, trump organized catch and kill through false business entries. one instance $30,000 was paid to a dar doorman. alvin bragg spoke with the media detailing his case and told reporters he is keved in what they have found as previous das and previous prosecutors declined to go after the charges. i m doing this for 24 years and i m no stranger to rigorous, complex investigations. i bring cases when they re re
Onstage. but one of the caucus goers telling you today about haley s process for a win on monday? alex, as usual, you are right. i will do my best golf whisper for you, because nikki haley is on stage behind me right now, making one of her closing pitches to iowa voters here. in these final stretch before the iowa caucus. look, the weather is a factor. certainly one of the things that we are often talking about is, does enthusiasm wax were wane based on how they are seeing the polls play out, how enthusiastically are for their candidate. in the case of nikki haley, certainly, that s one of the things she s battling here, as trump continues to say he has the most enthusiastic voters, certainly for haley, she s trying to make sure her voters are enthusiastic as well. but i think the big question here for caucus goers has been, is iowa trump country? watch. my son, who is also here with me today. [muted] to me.
Ally, take us behind the numbers of the desantis campaign, if you will. reporter: this is not the first time we ve seen the desantis team sort of playing defense. i will tell you we re in a pretty quiet room here. i ll do my best golf whisper as i give this assessment. when you talk to desantis allies, they ll tell you they feel good about what they brought in in the second quarter. such a high burn rate to the fact they re offloading about a dozen or so mid-level staffers, it s notable especially as we re starting to see donors question whether or not this is the campaign they thought it was going to be at the outset. several of them speaking to our colleagues at nbc news saying this campaign just hasn t caught fire in the way that they thought that it would. you see that not just in the way this fund-raising shook out with desantis maxing out on so many donors so early on in the process. but also in the way he s actually having to start offloading staffers as he s not