country. tonight the violent right and the explosion of fascism in plain sight. and the source of the leaks in fulton county out himself in open court. so that i can sleep well tonight, judge. i did release the videos 21 outlet. all the big news coming out of president biden s meeting with president xi of china, and what we know about what happened in the israeli raid on the hospital, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a four-hour summit with chinese president xi jinping, in northern california. we are expecting the president to take questions from the press, and a minute now. right there at that venue in california. today s event was the first time that president xi and president biden had met face to face in the year. it s only the second time they ve spoken in person since biden was elected president. it was also the first visit of president xi to the united states since he met with then presi
i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a four-hour summit with chinese president xi jinping. in northern california. we are expecting the president to take questions from the press any minute now, right there at that venue at woodside, california. today s event was the first time that president xi and president biden had met face to face in a year. it s only the second time that they had spoken in person since biden had been elected president. it s also the first visit of president xi to the united states since he met with then president trump at mar-a-lago. of course, more than six years ago. the two presidents held and expanded, bilateral meeting for two hours of southern noon, before having a more smaller, private meeting at 4:30 pm eastern time. there is a lot to talk about, to say the least. at the top of the agenda, a number of unfolding political geo crises. the white house is taking a renewed effort from china to curb the flow of illegal fentanyl in the
we continue to believe that that s essential. cnn s chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is with us now. jim, you were in taiwan last week. what s the taiwan government perspective on their role in this tense relationship? well, frankly, they re worried about getting caught in the middle, right, between two superpowers, as they are, and as was made clear by this meeting between blinken and xi and other senior chinese officials. it s good that they re talking, but there is still a great distance between the u.s. and china on the taiwan issue. taiwan taking the threat of chinese military action very seriously. they re preparing every day. i watched military exercises there, they re preparing for the possibility of a chinese invasion, but they re deliberately trying to avoid provoking china. they would prefer the status quo. they don t want it to escalate. and they, of course, have a hand in that, their own actions, but they also worry about the hands
are deliberate message sending, right, to say, we support as it is, and this country opposes any chinese military action. so when china challenges that, that s a deliberate challenge to the u.s. position here. and i should also note this. that s very close at sea. 150 yards may sound like, well, that gives you some steering room. these are big ships. they don t turn very quickly. the potential of having a collision there is real. that s a great point. you ve been on these ships, literally, jill, you know that better than anyone. let me just ask you also about, i thought it was interesting that mike turner, who obviously is the republican chair of the house intel committee said on one of the sunday morning shows yesterday, we re seeing, in his words, unbelievable aggression from china. and his view is that the biden administration is being too passive. they should do more. what can the biden administration do, given we ve just heard jake sullivan say, at some point, biden will meet wi