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
it s caught on video. mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is america reports, happened hours ago in new york. sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdie s death over his book satanic verses. sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdie s condition at this time? we do not know much about his condition. we have not received an update on the condition of the novelist, salman rushdie. set the viewers up, an hour and 20 minutes south of buffalo. a place where people live, a community for arts and literary figures who come here and lecture. and that s exactly what was happening. the new york state police says at just about 11:00 a.m. today, salman rushdie was on stage when he suffered an apparent stab to his neck. a man rushed on stage while he s having a discussion with his interviewer on that stage. his conditio
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears
appreciate it. and thanks at-home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. you are getting more of me than you bargained for this week, i m sorry. if everything goes as planned which honestly is basically never, in the news business, but you can t break your plans unless you make them in the first place, if all goes as planned, i will be here tonight hosting the rachel maddow show and tomorrow night as well, and my usual time of 90 am eastern, hosting the rachel maddow show tuesday night tonight, winds and a tomorrow. and then thursday night, i will be here as well, with an all-star team of all of my msnbc colleagues. because thursday night we expect to be doing another primetime recap of the january 6th hearing that is going to be happening during the workday on thursday this week. so, we will see. right? hi tonight, hi tomorrow night as well, my usual 9 pm eastern time. and then big special coverage starting at 8 pm eastern thursday night, after the next january
but you can t break or plans unless you make them in the first place, if all goes as planned, ha. i will be on tonight, hosting the rachel maddow, so answer mounted as well, at the usual time 90 am eastern. hosting the rachel maddow show, tuesday, night tonight, wednesday night tomorrow, and then thursday night, i will be here as well. the all-star team of msnbc colleagues, because thursday night we expect to be doing another primetime recap of the january 6th hearing that is going to happen during the work day on thursday this week. so, we ll see, right? hi tonight, hi tomorrow night as well, my usual 9 pm eastern time and that big special coverage starting at 8 pm eastern on thursday night. after the next january 6th hearing. that is the plan. and the only reason we make plans is so there is something to break when the news gods inevitably throw us ten curveballs at once, and all the plans had to be thrown out the window. we will see how it actually works out if that is the