welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. a high-stakes summit in san francisco this week as president biden met with chinese president xi jinping in an effort to cool tensions with beijing as conflicts rage in ukraine and israel. the president hailed his four hour meeting with xi as productive even as china warned that re unification with taiwan is quote unstoppable. here s president biden on what the two discussed. i reiterated what i have said since i ve become president and what every previous president of late has said, that we maintain the agreement that there is a one-china policy, and i m not going to change that. that s not going to change, and so that s about the extent to which we discussed it. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president and director of the international security program at the center for strategic and international studies. welcome, seth. so what do you think was accomplished at the xi biden summit? well, paul, i do
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Among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. Could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. Trump amid the impeachment fight. Well break down all the im kagss of last nights elections results. A significant new twist in the Impeachment Inquiry. Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. But why was he allowed to change his testimony . Were going to dig into that in just a moment. Lets go right to the implications of tuesdays elections. For that i want to bring in msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hes at the big board. Nbc news road war i dont Vaughn Hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. Vaughn, its a state that President Trump won by about 30 points in 2016. Here we are just three years later. Looks like there will be a Deck Kr Democrat in the governors me
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