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and not. thanks for joining us. our team covering this from around the asia region and thanks for joining us today. im jim sciutto "at this hour with kate bolduan" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello, im kate bolduan. were following breaking news. nancy pelosi arrived in taijuan, arriving moments ago for a visit thats been controversial and speculated about for weeks now. the visit never publicly confirmed but been public knowledge for sometime. the white...

With those voters. theres a political advantage for manchin in siding with trump on this one. you could see him saying yes tomorrow in this vote on kavanaugh and using that as his calling card for re-election to go to crowd after crowd in west virginia and say i was the only democr democratic to stand with president trump. >> interesting. every one thank you very much. were following breaking news out of chicago where a jury has just reached a verdict in trial of police officer jason van dyke....

Chuck. >> what you are not making clear is donald trump runs the government. today he increased the democr democratics party hands. in less than 10 days the government will face a shutdown. you need 60 votes in the senate. >> [overlapping talking]. >> what donald trump was put them in a bad spot. you need to bring the parties together. >> martha: if you care so much about not shooting down the government which will take away veterans benefits and deprive children of school lunches, then today wa...

Democratic congressman from arizona. he is embroiled in a settlement controversy. he said conyers must go but said that settlements with employees that are paid by taxpayer dollars, thats something that happens all the time. listen. >> as agonizing as it might be for all of us, the ranking member needs to step down at the minimum. settlements occur in congress all the time. there are a few members who have not gone through that. when its the issue of sexual harassment, thats a serious issue that...

Anyway. the seats next to him left empty. they were the seats left open by the democrats who were not amused. >> they should be calling immediately and say we want to see you. probably they wont. nothing to them is important other than raising taxes. thats the only thing they like doing is raising taxes. >> todays meeting is nothing but a photo-op. these issues are far too serious for these kinds of games. mr. president, its time to stop tweeting and start leading. >> pelosi jumped in with a twe...

Watergate, of course. nixon steadily denied i would. >> people have got to know whether or not their presidents a crook. well, im not a crook. >> reporter: but when special prosecutor archibald cox demanded recordings of oval office conversations which contained damning evidence of plans to derail the investigation -- >> the investigation -- the democr democratic, were about to be in a problem area because the fbi is not under our patrol. >> reporter: nixon stone walled. he offered compromises a...

Disaster. or the financial meltdown. he said the spill might have been "an act of god." the forum was partly funded by bp to promote regulation. deregulation. house republican leader john boehner not backing down for from the republican position for pushing for more drilling onshore and off. nor is it just republicans. democr democratic senator mary landrieu who represents thousands of louisiana fishermen whose fishing season came to an end tonight is unmoved by the implications of this spill, b...

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