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Kilometres south—west of cape canaveral. Making its way across florida. The new leader has delivered his national address since he became leader injanuary. He called on the people of taiwan to be courageous and brave amid escalating tensions with china. He pledged to defend the islands sovereignty. It makes most of the well�*s advanced chips. Lets speak to a political scientist and assistant professor at taiwan university, and a nonresident fellow. Thank you forjoining me. First of all, the ...

Got a response in time. the mail puts it even stronger. "youre letting gangs get away from order —— with murder." putting this in the words of borisjohnson. boris johnson was talking about the smugglers. he didnt say the french are helping them. i suspect some of the rhetoric will be dialled back. we have a report tonight of both macron and johnson agreeing that they will agree tojoint macron and johnson agreeing that they will agree to joint operations. i think theres a quote from the frenc...

Up a little bit after what the president said last night. it certainly did not get dialled back. >> what was the intention? was it a threat? it certainly sounded that way. >> i interpreted as an unmistakable threat. as an attempt by the president to try to link these investigations with the well-being of everyday americans. he made it seem like the economic resurgence in this country over the last several years would come to a halt if there were paper san investigation into the president. but, a...

How to negotiate. i think it doesnt mean its just a venn neaeer. no one intended to give donald trump a wall. so he can go and ask the mexican president for the money he said. he will make mexico pay for the wall. i think part of that conversation, the delicacy a that we need to government to run. and so there has to be some coming to terms around something in order for us to keep the government open. i think theres some kind of staged approach. it is a staged approach that perhaps the democrats...

Like a tax. rarely are those dialled back. what do you make of what is going on? >> it is a probability tax. its not a gas tax on cigarettes or alcohol which often are passed on to lower income earners. the average home in houston is $225,000. the 9% tax would equal $117 increase. this storm is so expensive. the costs are going to come in fast and loose. that means that the entire reliance to cover, reconstruction in the area cant be fully placed on the federal government. therefore, a lot of th...

The trump administration, of course as we saw from the press conference is not going to talk about it. the only way were going to find out is through reporting. >> its difficult to get answers from the trump administration on these things. >> reince priebus was on face the nation over the weekend and he was asked about the president calling the press the enemy of the people. lets listen to that. we do not have it. unfortunately. but basically, he said that the president needs to be taken serious...

Flynn -- i cant remember who else. a few other people. we wrote a paper for him, and he amended it to the ban would be restricted to particular countries, and it wouldnt be a ban, it would involve extreme vetting. the one place in which he would not let anyone in unless it was an extraordinary circumstance would be syrian refugees. all the rest from countries that contain dangerous populations of radical islamic extremists, hell subject them to extreme vetting but not a ban. so he said that abou...

Restricted to particular countries and it wouldnt be a ban, it would involve an extreme vetting. the one, the one place in which he would not let anyone in unless it was an extraordinary circumstance would be syrian free refugees. all the rest from countries that contain dangerous populations of radical islamic extremists, hell subject them to extreme vetting, but not a ban. he said that about 100 times during the campaign from the time that he made that -- from the time he made that statement. ...

This is something that trump administration not surprisingly is touting today. they want the political credit for this as well. should they get it? our own ally velshi is with me here. ali, trump white house says this is a continuation of something weve been seeing since november. a lot of positive signs, how much can trump take credit for? >> sean spicer sort of dialled back expectations saying that there is celebration on twitter was just a celebration that so many people were gerting jobs. th...