my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering disinformation, cybersecurity attacks and so on. but i think the overall mood is quite calm. ok, because china has claime
plan. i m simone thompson, and i have something to say. some of our nation s biggest secret secrets that could mean life or death depending on whose hands there in you re not in a sensitive facility. they were at a resort in palm beach florida. look at these pages. 38 of them. the redacted copy of the affidavit justifying the unprecedented search of his home earlier this month. the judge released it yesterday. the justice department laid out potential violations of the espionage act after examining the 15 boxes of documents retrieved by the national archives. those 15 boxes contain 184 unique classified documents including 67 documents marked confidential, 92 mark secret, these all included information on at least one confidential human source overseas. not only could our flow of intelligence potentially be at risk peoples lives could be put in danger. we learned today that the director of national intelligence, avril haines, will assess the potential risk to national securit
seemed the political fit for this state, the reddest in the nation. where she won by nearly 50 points. but everything changed when she turned on trump. every american must consider this. can a president who is willing to make the choices donald trump made during the violence of january 6th ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again. as cheney awaits word on her political future, trump and his allies are facing new threats to their legal future. three investigations moving ahead on multiple fronts in just the past 24 hours. federal prosecutors now say the search at mar-a-lago is part of an ongoing criminal investigation involving national security after warning a judge that unsealing the affidavit could compromise witnesses and undermine their case. in new york the former cfo for trump s business empire is now expected to plead guilty to criminal charges in a case linked to tax fraud. and in georgia where investigators are looking into attempt
very real sandy hook mass massacre, calling it a fake. they today a texas jury ordered him to pay more than $4 million in damages to parents of six-year-old jesse lewis, one of the 20 young children and six teachers murdered in that shooting. jessie s parents wanted at least 150 million for defamation. this afternoon their lawyer said the next step in this case is the real name of the game. the jury just returned a verdict for damages exceeding $4 million. that s a darn good start. we now have the punishment phase. it s perfectly expect-able that we are going to see an over nine figure judgment against mr. jones. that punishment phase of the trial begins tomorrow. jurors have already heard about the damage done by alex jones s lies. i can t even describe last night i have nightmares of the living hell that i and others have had to endure because of the negligence and the recklessness of alex jones. jones may soon face even more legal jeopardy. yesterday the lawyer for
to rush in immediately and take down the gunman. he was set to take his place on the city council tonight. we ll tell you what the town s mayor is saying about that. and the latest in the debate over gun reform. more on what the key players are thinking and saying ahead of a senate meeting that is scheduled for today. along with joe and me today, we have former aide to the george w. bush state departments and white house, elise jordan. and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. the white house bureau chief at politico. the senators led by chris murphy and john cornyn of texas will hold a meeting tonight. many issues should be held at the state level, but they said mental health, background checks, and red flag laws are something congress can address. after spending four hours with families on sunday in uvalde, the president returned to the white house and expressed hope that republicans will go for reform. he also discussed the limitations of his power on this issu