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chinese government spy operation in the middle of manhattan. and that s just the start of it. the lead starts right now. chinese dissidents in the u. s harassed and intimidated from online to door knocks. the fbi says chinese government agents were trying to silence their words against the chinese government, even operating a fake cop shop in new york plus outrage in kansas city as if, after a black teenage boys shot after showing up at the wrong house to pick up his brother s. cnn is learning that the gunman was an elderly white man and was released. after less than two hours in custody. why critics fear he may never be charged with a crime and live from new york. it s the house gop their spotlight on crime in new york today in the backyard of the prosecutor indicted donald trump. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and what appears to be a brazen act of espionage by the chinese government as us tensions with that country boil over, the u. s. justice department announ ....
Of trying to be funny, they were more interested in pushing a political agenda. I was never as comfortable with comedy where i needed to make a point about something, so i always thought that when trump came along, what a lot of people have to revert to is, doesnt he saw . I hate that guy. [bleep]. And those arent jokes. So i think it is just, you know, im really going Out On A Limb here saying that is his greatest crime. [laughs] i think he has hurt political comedy by being so outlandish himself. Jeanine and bill maher is no stranger to taking on the woke mob. The leftwing comic is also taking a swipe at his latenight competitors for pandering to liberal audiences. Its not a take. Those guys dont have takes. I have takes. What they do i have a take on things. What they do is say exactly what a liberal audience wants them to say about that. Thats not a take. I mean, im not saying its not sincere. I guess it is, on their part, but ....
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Disrupt those calls that would end those phone calls, and they would also try to essentially make sure that the accounts were shut down to the dissidents had a hard time doing zoom calls to discuss things that were critical of the chinese government, one of the other cases that were announced that was announced today is this police fake police station operation that you just mentioned in this case to us citizens were arrested today they re appearing in court as we speak. there were associated with the non prime profit that was operating a police station for the future. you municipal police authority now. ostensibly what this what they were trying to do, which was to for people to be able to renew their driver s licenses or to do things that the municipal government needed for back in china instead. what the fbi says they were doing was they were using the police station to go out and harass dissidents they would show up at following gang protests, for instance, and harass people there. ....
China was referenced in indirect way. so, he was sort of putting out these nonconfrontational messages. the big one you grabbed there which was the-we don t want a new cold war. it was sort of trying to lower the temperature. he has got a real problem with the china strategy that he is trying to pursue right now. the strategy sounded good on paper. it was this idea that we can compete and confront china in all those things need to like trade but also cooperate with them on climate change. that s not how china likes to operate. and china sent a very clear message to biden if you keep talking us about, you know, the genocide in jing jiang we are not going to be sitting down with john kerry we are going to be doing zoom calls with him and humiliating him when he comes over here. that s probably one of the biggest strategic challenges they face. bret: leslie, it s been a bumpy few days maybe few weeks for the biden administration. for the president on foreign ....