the congress should not try to get involved in something as sensitive as this and particularly get involved in what is really the domestic politics of taiwan. you know the important thing to realize that actually to taiwan president s going on trips right now there is president side coming to the united states meeting with kevin mccarthy because he insisted on it, but the former president, president ma yuzhou is going to china and he is meeting there with some chinese officials. he is on a 12 day trip to visit his homeland. that party is much more comfortable with some kind of dialogue with beijing. in the old days, they used to be in favor of some kind of peaceful reunification. um in general, taiwan has been trending more towards the party that presidents i represents the current president who s meeting with kevin mccarthy. but there are a lot of taiwanese who vote for president ma s party, you
favor of some kind of peaceful reunification. um in general, taiwan has been trending more towards the party that president side represents the current president who s meeting with kevin mccarthy. but there are a lot of taiwanese who vote for president ma s party, you know? so you see what i mean where kevin mccarthy is getting himself involved in something that american politicians should . this is a very sensitive issue and better to let the administration handle our 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 sa
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 . it is a bad idea for kevin mccarthy to do this, uh, the congress should not try to get involved in something as sensitive as this and particularly get involved. and what is really the domestic politics of taiwan? you know the important thing to realize that actually to taiwan president s going on trips right now there is president side coming to the united states meeting with kevin mccarthy because he insisted on it, but the former president, president ma yuzhou is going to china. and he is meeting there with some chinese officials. he is on a 12 day trip to visit his homeland. that party is much more comfortable with some kind of dialogue with beijing. in the old days, they used to be in
idea, but don t know what to do. next call invent help today they can help you get started with your idea. call now. 807 100020 . breaking news moments ago. china officially responded to the meeting today between house speaker kevin mccarthy, along with the 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 sa
6th committee hearings we heard about how trump was stoking up the crowd. we heard about how he was working with sidney powell on the legal front. but what we see now is all of those things are being covered by jack smith and this national security component. i think it just demonstrates how broad the case he s putting together is margaret hoover. appreciate it, sir matthew s elliot williams thanks so much at the top of the hour, cnn s pamela brown hosts a special hour inside the trump investigations. that s cnn. primetime nine eastern right here next for us journalist ronan farrow, who s reporting on the former president s effort to silence from daniels and karen macdougal are now the center of new york s case against him his first take on that indictment when we come back and later breaking news, china s reaction to house speaker mccarthy s bipartisan meeting with taiwan s leader today in california. let me to feed is 101 years old this year and counting. i m bill lockwood, current c