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Earlier i spoke to Steve Lai in taipei who told me more about the situation. Those words of congratulations from Antony Blinken have been backed up with some actions as well. Just yesterday a delegation of former senior officials arrived in taipei and theyre expected to meet with various leaders here today. We will have to see what comes out of those meetings and what words get shared between the two of those parties. In the meantime, lets get more reaction to what we have seen over the weekends...

Targets like they did against the eagle just the other day. We only have so much leverage. We have due kinetic leverage. The president has to extend himself to stop this. He has to take more risk. What i mean by that, he has to go to the source. The source is iran. Theyre the ones that have started this, created this problem with hezbollah, the houthis and hamas. What he has to do, be the president and say, okay, were going to declare the houthis to be a foreign terrorist organization, which the...

It has not been for him a place of last reso much is a place of con quarrel. conflict in courts is not bad for him, it is how he does business. nbc legal analyst -- the former deputy assistant general for the justice departments national security division, and the co-host of one of my favorite podcasts, prosecuting donald trump. the reason i wanted to have conversation tied to this politico piece is because there is trump himself, and then there is what his vision of the justice system has meant...

Not going to be a part of it. z z >> i think everybodys job is at risk. this is been the story of this congress. mike johnson, former speaker had to deal with this, raises the majority right flank, lurching from crisis to crisis and some of these vulnerable members in particular are absolutely fed up with it. i caught up with one of them on friday. mike lawler who comes from a swing new york district. he made clear he is tired of these antics. >> but when you dont have the white house and you do...

Its leverage, of american leverage, to accomplish our objectives. >> can i read a couple of things? i want to ask you about the amendment that youre proposing. first of all, senator bernie sanders wants to introduce a question, you know, for the state department as to whether, you know, they accept to be asked how u.s. weapons are being used. one congressman says it also must be clear that america will not write a blank check for mass displacement. you had mentioned that mass displacement. and y...

Do you believe the administration has enough leverage because it keeps ending the secretary of state and other officials to try to rein in the israeli counteroffensive, to stop the carpet bombing and to be more targeted to avoid the mass killings in gaza. >> well, i do believe that the biden administration could exercise u.s. leverage more effectively. they have succeeded in getting the netanyahu government to make some very small changes in their conduct, but not nearly enough to achieve secret...

Biden or any one of the biden family if it does go to trial. i suspect there may be a plea negotiation. but lets talk about jill for a minute. she says what theyre doing to hunter is cruel. she is a mother and as a mother i understand that but heres the problem, hunter biden did it to himself. i dont want to hear what a great father joe biden is. joe biden was warned that there were conflicts of interest when he was vice-president and the point man for the administration, the obama administratio...

That wins some support at the time when their base is probably quite tired after nearly a decade of civil war and regionally, it wins them leverage in the ongoing talks with saudi arabia as saudi tries to negotiate its own exit from the civil war in yemen and internationally, they gain maximum publicity. israel has called on judges at the international court ofjustice to throw out the case brought by south africa, alleging that it is committing genocide in gaza. on the second and final day of he...

Interest is still on the table, right? the saudi ambassador to the -- to england said we still are open to this not at the cost of palestinian lives. so blinken is using the leverage that he has the relationship with saudi arabia that the united states has in order to create pressure on netanyahu and do it in a way that allows him to save face, right? he wants to be the one that rescues this deal to saudi arabia. whether he can actually get the hostages back, you mention there are a hundred stil...

We have a lot of promises we made to the public and many of those promises are in conflict with the promises joe biden made. and you cant fold and fight at the same time. the real question is were going to be in a fight. or were going to serunder. fundamentally, we have to use the leverage we have, which is the power of the purse. that means, look, we want to fund the government, but we should only agree to fund a government that will secure our borders. its clear the biden administration isnt g...