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already from china. well have much more on that in just a moment. but were also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, its very likely to be raised. well bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. lets get started. cnns jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from admi...

That big a difference. it clearly states the det deterrence. it doesnt -- >> does confusion help? >> well, its strategic ambiguity. >> about the ambiguity, does that help? >> look, we dont want china to know exactly what theyre facing. this is a very difficult policy question, whether or not were going to commit troops. we dont have to answer it. look, at the end of the day until it actually happens, you know, you can say whatever you want to say but is it actually going to happen? whats more im...

An invasion. but secretary of state antony blinken defended the decision to wait in a conversation with our colleague dana bash. take a listen. and so what he essentially was arguing was that the sanctions are meant to act as a det deterrence, but revealing them ahead of time would take that off the table. thats not something that they want to do now as putin is still evaluating about moving forward with an invasion of ukraine. now even as the u.s. says that russia could attack at any moment, th...

John pierre is here. that is the best french i speak. so first of all, do you disagree with anything i just said, what they did was found wrong by the american people, the president backed off, he promised to make it better and it hasnt happened. all facts? >> no hes making it better now. the majority of the infants rb reunited with their parents. that continues to happen. they tried very hard to make the two-week deadline. they have reunited a hundred of them. but the program was made, chris, t...

Shes been sentenced to 35 years. the already politicized case became more complicated last week where manning formerly known as bradley announced that he was now identifying as a woman and requested that the military provide hormone therapy. joining me now is a professor at st. marys university school of law and director of its center for terrorism law and retired lieutenant colonel in the army. thanks so much for being here this afternoon. >> my pleasure. >> i want to get your reaction to manni...

At attacks thus far, but to me the issue is in the future, right? if this can be done, what is deterring, whats the logic of det deterrence thats going to stop us from seeing more attacks like this. >> i term it restraint. basically the precedent is collateral damage is a real problem. that was certainly an aspect that david talked a lot about in his book that was excellent. the other thing is blowback and replication. that if we use these weapons, they can come right back at us or theyll be let...