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a i'm aishah hasnie. alex alexandria hoff from washington. >> the chinese foreign ministry has imposed unspecified sanctions on speaker pelosi and her family. while in tokyo yesterday, the speaker says that china's action are part of an effort to isolate taiwan and she said her trip did not change to the statues quo. and calling the exercise in the taiwan straits a grave problem and several missiles landed in japan's exclusion zone. here is antony blinken. >> since china has launched a dozen ballistic missiles, we've been hearing from partners and allies across the region who are inc...

gowdy. israeli defense forces continue to pound hamas encircling gaza strip and rejecting calls from president biden and others for a so-called humanitarian pause. israel says if you want to pause, release the hostages, otherwise israel is reluctant to pause and allow hamas to regroup and the world should be reluctant to take the word of a terrorist group that beheads children. alex hogan is live in southern israel and joins us now. alex. we've started to hear artillery pick up, loudest blasts in the entire time here in israel, where you can feel the pressure and hear that echo rippl...

>> and had he gone to a different venue and what happened to freedom of assembly in this country that we're free to assembly and speak what we want and hear what we want? >> freedom, there it is. okay so the venue says we believe in diverse voices in the freedom of artistic expression, but in honoring that we lost sight of the impact this would have and you've got to question, do they believe in diverse voices? >> it's not the first time that maher has defended chappell because the comedians pushing the envelope, lenny bruce and richard pryor rolling in their graves. this is the line you canno...