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already from china. we'll have much more on that in just a moment. but we're also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it's very likely to be raised. we'll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let's get started. cnn's jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president's comments in taijuan? >> reporter: well,...

That big a difference. it clearly states the det deterrence. it doesn't -- >> does confusion help? >> well, it's strategic ambiguity. >> about the ambiguity, does that help? >> look, we don't want china to know exactly what they're facing. this is a very difficult policy question, whether or not we're going to commit troops. we don't have to answer it. look, at the end of the day until it actually happens, you know, you can say whatever you want to say but is it actually going to happen? what's more important, in fact, it hasn't been reported that widely is the economic cooperation agreement t...

An invasion. but secretary of state antony blinken defended the decision to wait in a conversation with our colleague dana bash. take a listen. and so what he essentially was arguing was that the sanctions are meant to act as a det deterrence, but revealing them ahead of time would take that off the table. that's not something that they want to do now as putin is still evaluating about moving forward with an invasion of ukraine. now even as the u.s. says that russia could attack at any moment, they still believe that there is a path to diplomacy. and antony blinken said that president biden wo...

John pierre is here. that is the best french i speak. so first of all, do you disagree with anything i just said, what they did was found wrong by the american people, the president backed off, he promised to make it better and it hasn't happened. all facts? >> no he's making it better now. the majority of the infants rb reunited with their parents. that continues to happen. they tried very hard to make the two-week deadline. they have reunited a hundred of them. but the program was made, chris, to be a deterrent. they've had to fix it, but the -- >> so you admit, hold on, john, john -- >> gon...

She's been sentenced to 35 years. the already politicized case became more complicated last week where manning formerly known as bradley announced that he was now identifying as a woman and requested that the military provide hormone therapy. joining me now is a professor at st. mary's university school of law and director of its center for terrorism law and retired lieutenant colonel in the army. thanks so much for being here this afternoon. >> my pleasure. >> i want to get your reaction to manning's sentence, 35 years with the possibility of parole in seven years. does that fit the crime in ...