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first breaking tonight house speaker nancy pelosi says that u.s. will not abound in its commitments to taiwan after meeting with taiwanese leaders of the past day. the beijing rebuttal crock causing a lot of concerns as china prepares for a large-scale show of force in the taiwan strafe to make clear that its claims are nonnegotiable the island it regards as a renegade province. the military drills are expected to be the most provocative action towards taiwan and a quarter century. the white house correspondent peter doocy joins us from the north long, peter. on the ground and in the water near taiwan a lot is changing. here at the white house the president s position towards china head is not changing. tonight he remains in covert isolation as speaker nancy pelosi jets around asia. we condemn them for being one of the most freest societies in the world. that s not how china sees things though. neither is this. this is a choice between democracy and toss to see. ....
china s threats of retaliatory measures. soon after nancy pelosi s arrival they announced a series of military options and drills were defying their warnings. details tonight from the pentagon. speak of the pentagon edge watching china s defense ministry, 21 chinese warplanes entered its air defense identification zone as tensions between the two global powers under a new phase. supporters and critics it gathered as house speaker nancy pelosi arrived in taiwan with five other members of congress, just before midnight. she is the highest ranking u.s. official to visit the island democracy and first house speaker to do so since newt gingrich 25 years ago. taiwan s tallest building welcome to speaker pelosi with a simple message, thank you. china s foreign ministry warning that the u.s. is playing with fire and might get burned. we will continue to operate in the seas and these guys of the western pacific as we have done for decades. we will continue to support taiwan. ....
Advice of Career Lawyers in the Justice Department. It wasnt just a whim of Jeff Sessions, this was a serious consideration went into this. Im sure Jeff Sessions didnt want to recuse himself but that was the advice he got. The president has been loudly lamenting sessions decision to do just that. Sessions pushing ban on his part saying essentially that the actions to have department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, thats the thing that he shot back, your thoughts on that . Yeah, i think the other thing was that was the beginning of the statement, at the end of the statement he mentioned that the people in his department and him are committed to advancing the rule of law and i think that was a very important thing too becaus ....
Governor s race, republican lake trails democrat katie hobbs by more than 34,000 votes but it s far from over. we just have to wait and let these guys get their act together and count them. i m hoping that we will have some answers on monday but, you know, god is giving us a great lesson in patience. we are still waiting final reports but spirits in team hobbs are high, be patient and let the course and let officials do their job without fear or interference. alicia: in the senate race republican blake masters has not conceded even as democrat incumbent mark kelly is projected the win. masters is waiting until all the votes are counted and, mike, officials hearsay that could be tuesday or wednesday, mike. mike: patience, alicia acuña live in phoenix. thanks very much. with the democrats firmly in control of the senate all eyes turn to the georgia runoff with ....
Has come in. so we re in somewhat of a holding pattern right now. we did expect to hear johnson later today. but as of now, we re still waiting for both campaigns to give us more updates. and we ll watch for those. call us if something happens. and we just got a call in the kansas governor s race, laura kelly the democrat takes the governorship in kansas over derek schmidt. and in arizona, everything is still up for grabs with both the governor and senate races too early to call. let s bring in allie raffa live in phoenix. even though the governor s race has not been called, kari lake is already expressing doubt over the race without any evidence. what more do we know at this hour and when could we see results in that race and in the senate race? reporter: yeah, we know kari lake is one of dozens of election deniers on ballots across the country. and not only last night at her ....