that the michigan recount will begin at noon today. jill stein also filed this morning for a recount at the federal level in the state of pennsylvania. carol? >> all right. jessica schneider reporting live for us this morning. let's talk about this. with me now julian zelizer, and cnn global affairs analyst david rhodes a national security investigations editor for reuters. so i'm just going to step back and i'm going to tell you what donald trump supporters think about the whole china/taiwan thing. they think america's been wimpy. they want someone to take a strong stance and see donald trump tweeting out these things about china as taking a strong stance. what's wrong with that? >> there's nothing wrong with it politically. it's very popular with his base. the question is what does it lead to? a military confrontation with china in the south china sea? could it lead to a trade war with china and i'll throw out a third thing, north korea. north korea's getting very close to have a nuclear weapon it