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silence her. she signed the deal just before the election. randi joins me now what is karen mcdougal said about the trump s recent indictment. if anything, well, anderson. she s kept a pretty low profile, as all of this recently has been unfolding. she hasn t issued any formal response to the indictment or to that statement , of fact, with all the details in it, where she is referred to as a woman one, but she did post on her social media today, sort of a tongue in cheek post and here s what she wrote on instagram. i ve been out and about enjoying god s country. i hope i didn t miss anything with a smiley face. emoji. so anderson she certainly trying to make light. of this very historic and serious moment that she, too, is at the center of randy appreciate it. thank you. coming up a historic meeting today between house speaker kevin mccarthy and the leader of taiwan, the first of its kind on u. s soil and follows the footsteps that very controversial meeting last year with former speak
bipartisan congressional delegation and the leader of taiwan at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. this was the first time any leader from taiwan has met with the house speaker on u. s soil last year. as you ll recall, former speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan and its president, china s minister of foreign affairs now says that this latest meeting quote seriously violates the one china principle and that china firmly opposes and strongly condemns this he also demanded the us quote. stop upgrading the substantive relationship between the u. s and taiwan. cnn s fareed zakaria joins me now with more freed from what we ve seen thus far. do you think chinese response to the stateside meeting will be the same or the same kind of level as it was when speaker pelosi visited taiwan in 2022? i think it s likely to be quite different. they recognize that the difference you know, in terms of how provocative that was. but look, it was a bad idea. financing pelosi to go to taiwan
a very delicate and calibrated relationship. you know what we re trying to do with the united states is trying to do is to preserve taiwan s autonomy and preserve the status quo, which has allowed taiwan to flourish. ah if there s a change in the status quo, there s a problem. provocative move in the chinese, the chinese invade or, you know, the whole thing can explode. and i don t think that kevin mccarthy is the world s most skilled diplomat to be to be entering this this arena. do you think russia is difficulties in ukraine have affected the thinking of china s leadership regarding taiwan? the idea of trying to take it by force? i don t know what lesson they draw from it because it s such such a complicated one. so lesson number one. ah you know, the russians have gotten totally isolated from the world economy . huge sanctions on them. could that happen to china? it s difficult to imagine, but the chinese must have been
know? so you see what i mean, where kevin mccarthy is getting himself involved in something that, um merican politicians should. this is a very sensitive issue and better. to let the administration handle source close to speaker. mccarthy told cnn that it was important for the speaker to make sure the meeting with the taiwanese president was bipartisan. talk a little bit about why taiwan is one of the very few things that both sides of the island actually agree on these days. well, this is the big area of bipartisanship in washington. these days, everyone is a china hawk. everyone wants to in some way or the other show how tough they can be on china, and you know, taiwan is an extension of that, uh and that s why, as i say speaker, pelosi went to taiwan because she wanted to make that point. i should point out the biden administration was more opposed to that visit. then they have been to this to this meeting precisely because it was more provocative, but privately , they will tell you