should be prosecuted by the justice department. i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? yes. that is strong stuff from the president after the white house tried to distance itself from the criminal contempt referral from steve bannon and the doj says the department of justice will make its own independent decision in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law period full stop. that is happening as democrats on the committee are speaking out tonight holdiing bannon and purveyors of the big lie accountable. we re not bluffing. we ll hold people accountable and we expect people to appear before the committee as is everyone s duty before congress and we will take the next step, which is criminal referral. we want mr. bannon s cooperation. he s clearly hiding behind this privilege he doesn t hold and that s fine. if he continues to stone wall, we ll use every means necessary including the tuesday meet
invasion of ukraine. and i will just end by saying that according to officials, there was a discussion of a possible face-to-face meeting going forward. there s no timeline for that, but they are going to follow up and set up that meeting. mj lee, thank you. let s turn now to selena wang in beijing, gathering chinese reaction to joe biden and xi jinping s phone call. what did china have to say about mo pelosi s possible trip to taiwan? reporter: while the readout did not specifically mention pelosi, they gave a strong warning about playing with fire when it comes to taiwan. in that readout, xi jinping said, we firmly oppose taiwan independence and interference of external forces and will never leave any space for taiwan independence forces in any form. if you play with fire you get burned, and i hope the u.s. side can see this clearly. america is sending in one of its top politicians to taiwan, is treating taiwan more like an independent country that. is a clear red line
hostages believed to be held in gas ga sa has gone up to 240. this comes as israeli troops and tanks push deeper into the gaza strip. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is rejecting calls for a cease fire and refusing to halt the ground and air assault to wipe out hamas. calls for a cease fire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. that will not happen. the bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. this is a time for war. the israeli military tells cnn special forces operation was able to rescue a hostage held in northern gaza. she is an idf soldier who was kidnapped during the october 7th terror attack. this is video of the emotional reunion, that s her with her grandmother. meanwhile on the ground in gaza, the idf says troops have been battling terrorist cells armed with machine guns and anti-tank missiles. israeli forces advance, hamas released a new hostage video of three israeli women
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reportedly that s not what most upset the president. instead, manafort s python and ostrich jackets are stealing the show this week, people close to trump tell cnn that s the thing that frustrates the president, david. so what do we suppose is going through the mind of the president right now? good morning, fred. the president is feeling that pressure and of course would be irritated by all of these descriptions of manafort s lavish life-style. i m in line with what laura said, the table was set by the accountant, laying out in flush times manafort had all of this money coming from kremlin linked president and was hiding money from the irs or was alleged to have been hiding money from the irs, and then the accountant laid out that allegedly in lean times he was essentially inflating his worth and income so that he could get money from banks to further his life-style or further the image that he was
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This clearly. how much stock do you put in china s warning here? that s a pretty tough thing to say, given that speaker pelosi is planning on going to taiwan. yeah, i don t put stock in that. they can say what they want. we re the united states of america, we re in a position of strength and we don t let other countries tell us when and where we can visit our partners and friends. i went with speaker pelosi to ukraine to visit president zelenskyy in april. this is what we do. we reach out, we show up around the world. we are the leaders of the free world. and we re not going to let other people tell us what we can and can t do. cnn s steven colinson warned about potential consequences if pelosi does go to taiwan. china has warned it will take forceful measures will pelosi visits. there is speculation in washington that china might