during my time. there was jim acosta, indicate lynn collins, the playboy reporter. hyenas. lately they had harsh words for former president trump. you hear the horrible stories of hoarding. he was doing the same with classified documents. hoarding nuclear secrets. it is almost a gollum in lord of the rings moment. my precious. it is like pathological in addition to being criminal. after wondering could a president trump unshackled by any opposition somehow use the justice department to imprison his enemies? it was starting to freak me out, the idea that we are not even discussing changing the constitution to make it say you cannot be in jail while being the president. my father. an amendment would be nice. i m a big fan of amendments. i thought it was innocent until proven guilty, i must have had that entirely wrong. trump to his credit never shied from challenging the media dishonesty. here he was moments ago in an exclusive interview with fox s bret baier. s
The alarm on covid19. Beijing claims its been open and transparent about the virus. China has reported around 82,000 cases and fewer than 4,000 deaths. Compare that to the u. S. Cases have soared past 400,000, deaths have now topped 13,000. I want to bring in our team. Gordon shane, susan li who has lived and worked in hong kong. A good afternoon to both of you. Gordon, lets begin. You dont think the criticism yesterday went far enough, why not . The World Health Organization helped spread this disease around china. On january 14th that sent out a tweet saying that based on the information i got from china they saw no evidence of human to human transmissions of covid19. Well the World Health Organization should have known that there were in fact such human to human transmissions. The Chinese Government probably knew the second week of december, certainly the third week of december. So what beijing has been doing is, it has been taking peoples lives. The other thing, they encouraged cou
Cadre appointed a different successor. Caroline shively in washington with the details, the president can name who he wants but that may not be the case. Federal vacancy reform act but under the doddfrank act created a bureau, and acting successor. Richard cordray who was head of the bureau, named his chief of staff as acting director citing doddfrank. Cordray has gotten billions in settlements from Financial Service companies for wrongdoing. Some watchdog groups targeted republicans and the Banking Industry who say he has overstepped. English, his successor, would likely follow his lead. Can he do this . Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren thinks so tweeting the doddfrank act is clear, there is a vacancy, the Deputy Director becomes acting director. Donald trump cant override that. It would just be temporary. Donald trump will have a new permanent head of the agency. The senate has to confirm it. Julie leland that is beside we are seeing politically. Mick mulvaney, doing a lot of work
isn t that nice. he basically gave the chinese communist party a green light to invade taiwan. we do not support 250i wan independence, we are opposed to any changes to status quo by either side. we continue to expect a peaceful resolution of cross strait differences. gordon shane joins us now. welcome, gordon. thank you. the biden administration, they have a big international trip, they come back, they re bragging, we got more flights between china and the united states and we have a working group to talk about fentanyl. they have the fight with the we goers, aggressive posture against taiwan. what did they get out of this? we got nothing out of this. an agreement to talk about talking? you know, the chinese communist party, it is behind the fentanyl gangs, gives them diplomatic support and launders their
year marathon, and gordon shane, author of the great u.s. china tech war. you just heard me mention that new york times piece about china running back to russia and basically begging them to do something, imploring them, but today, it became clear whose side china is on, where it s glaringly obvious. it looks like there is someone inside the administration who is starting to leak, which i am frankly very happy about right now. [laughter] we are supposed to condemn all leakers, but this is quite historic. whoever did this, and obviously, some very sensitive administration insiders have access to what happened. shows several things. three months was spent trying to get china to help, versus one