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and not. thanks for joining us. our team covering this from around the asia region and thanks for joining us today. i'm jim sciutto "at this hour with kate bolduan" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello, i'm kate bolduan. we're following breaking news. nancy pelosi arrived in taijuan, arriving moments ago for a visit that's been controversial and speculated about for weeks now. the visit never publicly confirmed but been public knowledge for sometime. the white house concerned and warning pelosi about the visit although never actually telling the house sp...

With those voters. there's a political advantage for manchin in siding with trump on this one. you could see him saying yes tomorrow in this vote on kavanaugh and using that as his calling card for re-election to go to crowd after crowd in west virginia and say i was the only democr democratic to stand with president trump. >> interesting. every one thank you very much. we're following breaking news out of chicago where a jury has just reached a verdict in trial of police officer jason van dyke. he was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of laquan mcdonald. the decision comes almost fo...

Chuck. >> what you are not making clear is donald trump runs the government. today he increased the democr democratic's party hands. in less than 10 days the government will face a shutdown. you need 60 votes in the senate. >> [overlapping talking]. >> what donald trump was put them in a bad spot. you need to bring the parties together. >> martha: if you care so much about not shooting down the government which will take away veterans benefits and deprive children of school lunches, then today was the day to talk about.

Democratic congressman from arizona. he is embroiled in a settlement controversy. he said conyers must go but said that settlements with employees that are paid by taxpayer dollars, that's something that happens all the time. listen. >> as agonizing as it might be for all of us, the ranking member needs to step down at the minimum. settlements occur in congress all the time. there are a few members who have not gone through that. when it's the issue of sexual harassment, that's a serious issue that could lead to more punitive issues. we have all gone through that. it's very painful with employ...

Anyway. the seats next to him left empty. they were the seats left open by the democrats who were not amused. >> they should be calling immediately and say we want to see you. probably they won't. nothing to them is important other than raising taxes. that's the only thing they like doing is raising taxes. >> today's meeting is nothing but a photo-op. these issues are far too serious for these kinds of games. mr. president, it's time to stop tweeting and start leading. >> pelosi jumped in with a tweet: that reference to one of the favorite word on twitter: sad. a punch from pelosi that shows t...