words. critics say president biden s words not nearly strong enough. house speaker s nancy pelosi visit to taiwan adding tension between the u.s. and china. this is the faulkner focus and i m dagen mcdowell in for harris. xi warning biden not to play with fire when it comes to taiwan. speaker pelosi s possible stop there. the speaker is set to leave for asia today and expect to hear from her later this hour. general jack keane criticizing america s passive approach to an aggressive china. the old paradigm we ve used for years, which is self-censorship and self-deterring in our relationship with china all because we don t want to spook them. we don t want to aggravate them. that paradigm has failed massively. dagen: jacqui heinrich live at the white house. good to see you. president biden and president xi had a long conversation today, 2 hours and 17 minutes. then the white house agreed to a face-to-face meeting. an odd thing to do critics say after a death warning. th
turning a july 4th parade into a mad dash for survival. police say the fgunman fired frm a rooftop. witnesses describe the confusion and chaos. i thought for a second maybe it was fire crackers. you ve heard before people aren t sure what it is, but it was too fast and too quick, and my son said no, that s gunfire. we turned and ran and i pushed my son s wheelchair, and the wheelchair collapsed on the pavement. he toppled over and i fell. it happened again. and then my young son picks up my older son and ran. we ran for our lives. six were killed. dozens more wounded. the video shows police apprehending a man described as a suspect and a person of interest. we re getting details this hour including about the weapon. what authorities call a high-powered rifle. the highland park mayor says the shooter bought the gun legally. that s despite a growing body of online evidence of disturbing posts from this man fantasizing about carnage and carrying out attacks and even suicide
court. how it could wipe out charges for hundreds of rioters and even affect one of donald trump s cases. our reporters are following all the latest developments and we begin here in new york city in lower manhattan with vaughn hillyard. where does jury selection for the former president s trial stand right now? reporter: we are 15 minutes away from the jury reconvening here. this is a big lunch break here because this was a moment for the defense teams and the prosecutors teams to deliberate internally amongst themselves, huddle over that first batch of 18 individuals. 18 potential jurors who went through the process, who answered questions on both sides on whether they were qualified or to what extent they had preconceived opinions about the defendant, donald trump, and whether they should be individuals who are fair and impartial and could sit on the jury. and what over the course of this lunch break, again, they re convening here at 2:15 eastern, 15 minutes from now, th
summit, and meeting with xi, the white house likely to face questions what to expect with u.s. and china relations at a tipping point like we have seen over the last several months. and talk about what you have been mentioning at the top of the last hour, the attacks on u.s. and coalition forces across the middle east. now more than 50 attacks. u.s. launching a fresh round of airstrikes overnight, trying to target some of the iranian proxies that have been carrying out the attacks. at least six fighters were killed on the missile strikes, and so far no reports of any injuries to any of those u.s. service members who were carrying out the attack or the attacks the iranian groups fired. a tit for tat, as for president biden, he has not spoken to reporters today. he got back to the white house a little earlier today to welcome the las vegas hockey team in the east room, but also an event later this afternoon with the president of indonesia. see if the president weighs in not onl
. a . a little bit under women and seniors and still under performing among women and trump is doing well among black, hispanic and young compared to previous campaigns and you are right, absolutely the movement is among independent and they have moved in recent polls roughly 9 points towards biden at 21% of independent in a survey shortly after the conviction said that they were the less likely to vet for donald trump as a result of the conviction. you know, john, in close elections where michigan wisconsin will probably be decided for under a point. that fluctuation really mat matters. one thing he didn t did donald trump ■çwill tell you is he has the joan rivers vote locked away. okayings my god. just like he has in the past. so he s at least got that on the side bit. independent have broken away, and again, we hear it every four years, donald trump is going to get 20% of the black vote, 25% of the black vote. it doesn t happen. well, as i will, you know, be