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we begin this hour with a very public and defiant show of force by the speaker of the house. speaker nancy pelosi walking down in taiwan. you can see the american flag on the tail of pelosis air force jet lit up moments after touching down. her trip is both high stakes and high danger. she say this is trip reaffirms the unwavering commitment to taiwans democracy. this moments after pelosi landed, this new threat from beijing, quote, these moves like playing with fire are extremely dang...

And you mentioned that this is not the first time of the speakers visit to china to taiwan. let me say this. 25 years ago, when the speaker visited taiwan, it was completely wrong. the chinese side was affirmly opposed to it from the start. the u.s. should have learned lessons from it instead of repeating the mistake. and the one mistake cannot justify the following mistake in the same nature. >> speaker employee say says you have to look around the world, and she sees china violating its agreem...

Do you think? >> i think its great that we have an administration now that positively and affirmly speaks to trans people and speaks to the trans experience. but none of our political leaders are doing enough for our community. we need our political leaders out there on the offense, not just in a defense mode. so theyre waiting for these right-wing conservative folks to come at our community when they should have been already ensuring our protections across the board. >> one more question for yo...

Because i remember one of the key things that the trump people said early on in the transition and representing a foreign country, you cant have a position in this administration. so, i feel like they would not ever have known this about general flynn and then had him in the white house. i do -- you know, i point out that he did now register and come forward with this fact. but, im sure that it was a surprise to the trump administration. >> jeff weaver, do you give the white house the benefit of...

Seen this the washington pundit class. >> remember, im based in los angeles. >> thats one strike. >> so thats the real world. >> l.a. is reality, not image. look. you write, matt, its program thats legal, reviewed by congress and subject to court your sight and those are arguments weve heard a lot. its not league in the sense that the supreme court has affirmly ruled on this. you know. youre lawyer. the court said were not going to get to the merits of all the surveillance programs. it basically...