they say most of the weapons and not being accounted for the white house assembly has a very limited budget for providing enough oversight. however, according to the washington post, joe biden has resisted sending an increasing number of american inspectors deeper into the crane. suppose the out of fear of provoking a tough response for russia and escalating the conflict. some of the weapons sent to ukraine are ending up. i'm being sold on the black market where they can be acquired by terrorist that's according to talk to law enforcement official from the u. k. which has also been sending guns to give you great had been well known as the forest hub for arms trafficking, even while the full russian military operation began in february for 100 and security policy hours. michael maloof says the by the administration's reluctance to thoroughly track the weapons, it says the grain ascent can lead to drastic consequences in europe. they cannot keep track of what is being sent and they have no intention of it. so good luck to the republicans or when they get into the house to get any kind

. >> the white house has already assembled a legal team, basically bracing for these investigations. thank you. >> thank you. >>> let's talk about the polls that will close, yes, tuesday night. but it's possible we're not going to know a lot then, right? we're not going to know which party will control the house or senate for days or weeks. that could happen. we want you to understand why in the days leading up to the election. david chalian is here. you're so good at this and it's important for people to understand, as my mother taught me, patience is a virtue. >> my mother taught me the same thing. everyone is going to need to pack their patience on tuesday night. we'll get results. these are the 35 senate elections, for battle control of the united states senate. this will start filling in red and blue tuesday night as the votes come in. everyone should keep their eyes on these five states, nevada, arizona, wisconsin, pennsylvania, georgia. how these states fall will determine which party controls the united states senate. but as you note we may not know that result on tuesday nig

the new york times describes the team assembled by the white house comprised of national security officialsthere are sketching out scenarios of how the u.s. and its allies should respond if putin unleashes nuclear weapons. the bulletin of atomic scientists, who have now set the doomsday clock to 100 seconds to midnight, suggests that leaders around the world, like putin, must immediately commit themselves to reducing these existential risks and that citizens must urge their leaders to do so, because the doorstep of doom is no place to loiter. so, that's it. that's at the end of times, i will turn the floor back to you, rev. thank you. >> thank, you doctor lubot. ambassador culvahouse? >> okay, can you hear me? all right, i didn't have my i. t. guy here to help meet here today. [laughs] let me talk a little bit about the practical role of the white house in the context of presidential health and the succession act. in the white house, there's a laser-like focus on protecting the president. that creates a strong bias, frankly, against dealing with health issues in a transparent and process or

plans in case russia uses its most powerful weapons the new york times describes a team assembled by the white house comprised of national security officials that are sketching out scenarios of how the us and its allies should respond if putin unleashes nuclear rapids. the bulletin of atomic scientists who have now set the doomsday clock to 100 seconds to midnight suggest that leaders around the world like putin must immediately commit themselves to reducing these existential risks, and that citizens much urge their leaders to do so because the doorstep of doom is no place to loiter. so thus that the precipice of time the end of times i'll turn the floor black back to you red. thank you. thank you dr. lebeau. ambassador caldwell house okay, i think i'm on can you hear me? all right. i didn't have my it guy here to help me today. let me talk a little bit about the practical world of the white house my contacts of presidential health and and the succession act in the white house. there's a laser light focused on protecting the president and there's that creates a strong. bias, frankly again against de

protesters around the world and the same, people should be allowed the right to assemble and peacefully protest. >> does the white house support their effort to regain personal freedom? >> the white house supports the right of paresful protest. >> todd: the magnitude of what we're watching here, we're watching history. the size and scope of these protests rivally what we saw in the square 30 years ago. these protests have the chance to end rule of xi jinping and the role of the ccp, this could lead to that and yet we get the weakest statement possible from this white house. you have to ask yourself why, is it because joe biden and his family made millions off ccp, china, because fauci likes lockdowns and is supportive of what china is doing. this was the moment to stand with the people of china and joe biden and his administration did not meet that moment. >> carley: i have no idea what is going on with the biden administration right now. question to john kirby, do the -- personal freedom and the answer was not automatic yes. john kirby said we support their right to peaceful protests, do you think if the shoe was on t

his second term despite talking may make a run for the white house if president biden chooses not to seek a second term. >> the california assemblyem will replace jackie spear in the house of representatives. he's leading in the results and the county supervisor has already conceded. spear says she has more work to do. >> i am not saying goodbye. that is the good part. i am coming home and i am not done. i'm going to start a new chapter and it will be all about making sure that families and women can thrive in this region. >> congresswoman jackie spear has served for nearly 15 years as the representative for district 15. hundreds of people showed up at john's grill in downtown san francisco for a free election day lunch. former mayor brown hosted the election day event, a san francisco tradition that dates back to the 1980's. brown says despite the negativity in american politics today, he's excited that he's optimistic about the future -- today, he is optimistic about the future. >> young people just now beginning to understand, 21, 2 e at 21 and that's a good thing.>r london breed, district attorney brooke jenkins and a long li

white house is weighing in. >> people should be allowed the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws that dictatehat they take issue with. >> but as throngs of chinese protests, how big do these protests get? or will the protesters pay a terrible price? selina wang begins our coverage live "outfront" in bangeige bei. you are there in beijing in person. how are authorities responding tonight? >> reporter: well, when i went to those protests in beijing, those people were determined to make their voices heard. but at the same time china's giant censorship machine is in overdrive determined to make it as if those protests never happened, erasing videos on all chinese social media platforms. state media completely ignoring it all and publishing headlines reiterating that zero covid is scientific and effective. but the protesters in china know that this is the system they're up against. [ chanting ] >> reporter: they chant "xi jinping step down." an extraordinary show of defiance in china. in shanghai they chant for freedom, democracy, an end to covid lockdowns. even targeting the communist party and t

consistent, people should be allowed the right to assemble and peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates they take issue with. >> does the white house support the efforts to regain personal freedoms in light of the lockdowns? >> the white house respects peaceful protest. host: that is john kirby it the white house yesterday. you can call and comment on the white house response as you see it, if you think it is too forceful (202) 748-8000, too weak (202) 748-8001, and (202) 748-8002 if you think it is just right. the posttests were sparked by an incident in a capital where firefighters were slow to put out a fire and five people died. the city government denies delays. people took to the streets to call for the end of lockdowns. the story adding that the show defines is one of china's most surveilled regions. when it comes to republican response to this, the new york times picking up the story that one of the responses the administration drew of criticism came from texas republic senator ted cruz saying, the bidens administration response -- the bite administration's response has been were sent expected. -- the biden response has bee

people should be allowed, the right to assemble and peacefully protest policies, laws that dictate -- and dictate they take issue with. reporter: will the white house support their personal efforts to gain freedom during the lockdown? john: the white house supports peaceful protests. reporter: [indiscernible] does a present plan to reach out to anybody about that? is there any white house reaction to that? john: i do not have any phone calls or conversations to read out, it is a component of the new start treaty that was signed on to in 2010. it is an opportunity for both sides get together and talk about the technicalities, formalities, compliance mechanisms in place with respect to new student -- new start. this is the first one we would've put in place since covid, that prevented the face-to-face meetings. we are very much looking forward to starting, supposed to start tomorrow, we are looking forward to that. we continue to believe in the importance of new start. we have not received a real solid answer from the russians as to why they postponed this. will be working through the embassy to figure out what happened here. we would like to see it

it was the assembly line of approved opinions to bolster their ideology. listen to this white houseter begging the white house to say that they'll get involved. >> a critical moment really in terms of ensuring that twitter does not become a sector for misinformation. i mean, are you concerned? who is it at the white house that is really keeping track of this? >> social media companies have a responsibility to prevent their platforms from being used by any user to insight violence especially violence directed at individual communities as we have seeing and the president has been very clear on calling that out. he'll continue to do that and we're going to continue to monitor the situation. >> greg: monitoring the situation. can you blame them for freaking out? it's like pulling a rattle out of a teething baby's mouth and saying no more you whiney little brat. remember in the old days journalists had beats. they covered local government, crime, sports. back then no one covered soccer. you had to call people and get quotes and write a story based on your notes and little note pad. but t

white house giving the feeble responses. speak our message to peaceful protesters around the world is the same and consistent. people should be allowed. the right to assembleright to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that they take issue with. >> you support their effort to regain personal freedom in light of the is lockdowns? >> the white house supports the right of peaceful protests. >> jesse: china getting at least one lockdown fan girl, taylor lorenz slamming her own paper and defending china's 0-covid strategy, the 45-year-old "there is no lasting natural immunity to covid, you can get it over and over and over again because there are so many endlessly evolving strains and antibodies weighing. also choosing not to kill off millions of vulnerable people as a u.s. is doing isn't a critical flaw, and the lockdown in china, dr. fauci is still towing -- toying around with the idea. my eyes of shutting down schools in america. >> we certainly are still in it coming i just need to look at the numbers, we are still having between three and 400 deaths per day, so i think that the idea that forget at this is over, it isn't. >> coming out of the ho

assemble and peacefully protest. >> they are trying to gain personal freedoms from the white house?the white house supports the protest to be peaceful. >> todd: they have not made it clear. responding, the people of china or not to blame for the ccp's action and many are protesting ccp's handling of the protest and the pandemic escalated into the regime. the cp cp should know in the coming months were coming years the united states will hold accountable to each and every ccp official responsible for atrocities against the protesters. protesters breaking out in chinese cities with many calling for xi jingping and the chinese communist party to step down as it refuses to ease zero covid restrictions. the bbc claiming one of the reporters in shanghai arrested and beaten by authorities covering the protest. life in china returning to a new so-called normal, that means constant peace and those stay-at-home orders. >> carley: the world's largest volcano erupts for the first time in nearly four decades. the volcano on the big island began erupting sunday night and it is still flowing this

consistent, people should be allowed the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that the take issue with. >> does the white house support their efforts to regain personal freedoms in light of these lockdowns? >> the white house supports the right of peaceful protests. >> that is john kirby yesterday will show you more what the administration saying about these protests and you can call and, under white house response as you see it so far if you think it is too forceful, 202-748-8000. if you think it's too we, 202-748-8001 and 202-748-8002 everything to response is about right when it comes to the protest. with some context to the stressing the protests were sparked in part because an evening in china the cap of northwest shinji, ten people died after firefighters were slow to about an apartment complex blaze rather than blaming zero covid restrictions. the government denying. this story adding the show of defiance is one of china's most surveilled regions touched a nerve across the country bit when it comes republican response to this, the "new york times" picking up the story one of the responses the administra

white house in april on testing a dented type of anti-satellite weapons as a purely declarative step, as we have already emphasized earlier, some statements and a draft resolution of the general assembly clearly not enough to prevent an arms race in space, especially for a country that has been since 2008, but hmm has experience in destroying space objects with means, but with anti-satellite weapons. the fact is that washington is so slyly silent, worth answering the question. whether they are ready to forever exclude the combat use of this type of weapon is a simple question. the texts of the resolution, by the way , do not say a word about this. no, there are no obligations regarding the development and production of such systems, the prospects for destroying the pentagon’s already accumulated, and moreover, anti-satellite potential, moreover, the possibility of deploying funds, and anti-satellite weapons on the american reusable unmanned space shuttle x37b, which is capable of being on orbit and perform maneuvers, as well as carry a certain load. by the way, our multiple requests, but addressed to the united states of america regarding the clarification of the goals of the tasks th

. >> reporter: the white house is reiterating calls for a peaceful right to protest in china. >> they speak to their decisions as a corporate entity. as people assembleave access to as much information and able to share information with one another. >> reporter: despite being banned in china twitter is one of the top 10 most downloaded apps over the past week, china's citizens are trying to get around the great firewall to share their information. we reached out to elon musk for comments on china. we've not seen a tweet in response to these china protests from elon musk who tends to tweet a lot on a lot of things. ashley: thanks for the update. i want viewers to look at this headline that reads china's 0 covid policy could be xi's undoing. good morning. make your case. >> the protest in china is widespread and organically grown and the largest in terms of scale since the 1989 pro-democracy movement in tiananmen square. xi last month sealed the third term, lifetime employment, and thought he had firm control of the country and this organic protest showed he does not have the country under secure control and, all because it is bad policy. >> if xi can'

would be in this case, the white house emphasized that no settlement of the russian war in ukraine was discussed at the meeting, let's go to in other news, the un general assembly at its 11th and extraordinary special session voted for a resolution on the creation of a compensation mechanism in ukraine caused by russia's war 94 countries supported the adoption of the document 74 abstained and only 13 voted against this time russia's camp was joined by iran and china my colleague iryna solomko watched the meeting from the un headquarters, we will ask her for details the format of this extraordinary session, who convened it and why. congratulations to ostap, yes, the resolution was adopted at a special extraordinary session, which actually convened was convened almost before the beginning a full-scale aggression has begun, this is such a special format that does not mean that it is not closed, it allows ukraine and its partners to quickly respond to these challenges that the world is facing due to full-scale russian aggression, and these challenges are not only in the context of the world, but, unfortunately, in the context of the un itself, because e security co

covid lockdowns and worker protests and apples key assembly panel -- plant in china have pushed back times for the iphone 14 as much as 37 days. now white housetrictions with china are creating more headaches for chipmakers and chip equipment makers. lam research says it could lose nearly half its china revenue because of those new policies. for more, we bring in the cfo, doug bettinger at the credit suisse technology conference in arizona. how do you navigate a world where that u.s., your home country, has policies in place that prevent you selling to china, your biggest potential market? doug: what i observed is there were some technology lines that were drawn. some of the most advanced manufacturing process capability now requires a license to ship to china which presumptively is not going to be not granted. what that has done is as we look into next year, it has impacted $2 billion to $2.5 billion of revenue. regulations are what they are, you have to comply with them at the end of the day and that's what we are doing. we just finished the best quarter financially in our 42-year-old company, north of $45 billion in revenue. we are seeing

people should be allowed, the right to assemble and peacefully protest policies, laws that dictate -- and dictate they take issue with. reporter: will the white house support their personal efforts to gain freedom during the lockdown? john: the white house supports peaceful protests. reporter: [indiscernible] does a present plan to reach out to anybody about that? is there any white house reaction to that? john: i do not have any phone calls or conversations to read out, it is a component of the new start treaty that was signed on to in 2010. it is an opportunity for both sides get together and talk about the technicalities, formalities, compliance mechanisms in place with respect to new student -- new start. this is the first one we would've put in place since covid, that prevented the face-to-face meetings. we are very much looking forward to starting, supposed to start tomorrow, we are looking forward to that. we continue to believe in the importance of new start. we have not received a real solid answer from the russians as to why they postponed this. will be working through the embassy to figure out what happened here. we would like to see it

parliamentary assembly, and therefore, we in this way, including pushing this decision to be adopted by the united states, and i will remind you that the congress is just ready, but the white house is not ready to accept this decision because it is precisely on their side, and now the ball is found, but in principle these political resolutions that are now appearing on all major platforms, they give arguments for the national parliament to adopt the same resolutions within the parliaments within their countries and how to have practical consequences due to the blockade of the russian federation the isolation of the russian federation, the severing of any relations with the russian federation if it is recognized as a terrorist, and what can you do with a terrorist if your country is uh, it also recognized russia, uh, that's why it's very important that now along such a chain , uh, national parliament began to recognize and this will mean a break in economic, political , diplomatic, cultural relations with the russian federation. well, this will lead to the earlier economy of the russian federation and a decrease in russia's funding of the war in to ukraine, mr. igor, we understan

from the white house perspective, that's the course of doing business in china and it is a company decision. >> apple should speak to decisions as a corporate entity. as people assemblend protest they have access to as much as possible or able to share information. >> reporter: china, twitter is one of the top 10 most downloaded apps in the past week according to analysis. chinese citizens trying to get around the great firewall to share and gather information, and we haven't heard back from elon musk, tweets and response to these china protests. it is a pretty lucrative shanghai factory close to the center of a lot of these eruptions of protests. cheryl: breaking news to bring you. house lawmakers passed a bill to avert a rail strike. we want to give you the number, the vote was 290-137, the house voted to block a potential rail strike. one of the product that relies heavily on freight rail transportation. i want to bring in president and ceo of the fertilizer institute cory rosen bush, your reaction as expected the house is passed this bill to avert a rail strike. things might get a little dicey over there, your initial thoughts. >> this is terrific news, the first

lockdowns and worker protest that apples assembly plant in china have pushed back delivery times for the iphone 14 pro models in the u.s. as long as 37 days. now, white housetrictions with china are creating more for chipmakers and chip equipment makers, lam research for examples as a could lose nearly half of its china revenue in 2023 because of those new policies, for more, we bring in lamb cfo doug bettinger at their credit suisse annual technology conference in arizona, let's get to it, how do you navigate a world where the u.s., your home country, has policies in place that prevent you selling to china, your biggest potential market? doug: what i knows there were technology lines drawn, some of the most advanced processing capabilities now requires a license to be able to ship to china, which presumptively is going to be not granted. so with that has done is, as we look into the year, it has impacted $2.5 billion from revenue that has gone away from customers impacted by that. the regulations are what they are, you have to comply with them at the end of the day and that's exactly what we are doing. we just finished the best porter financially in the h

white house officials endorsed the protests but stopped short of condemning the communist party. >> this is a moment to reassert what we believe in when it comes to free assembly and peaceful protest and we have done that and we will continue to do that. whether it's people protesting in iran or china or anywhere else. >> scale and scope of these protests are a first during president xi's tenure. >> not just protest against some local official because he is corrupt. this is against xi jinping and the communist party. >> tension boiled over thursday after an apartment fire killed 10 people in a high rise in jing jiang province. some residents had been locked down 100 days. some protester are waving blank sheets of white paper feelings of oppression and voicelessness. republican lawmakers are blasting the regime. >> they are still welding chinese people into their apartments. toddlers being taken from their parents and put into quarantine camps. >> chinese government maintains strict control. now in a bid to make it difficult for actors to protest. chinese bots with escort ads and other sexually drowning out real search resaultz in realtime. >> bret: gillian, th

white house for more details what position it has when it comes to the protests. we are seeing the mass demonstrations. >> take a moment what we believe in with free assembly and peaceful protests and we have done that and will continue to do that. whether it's people protesting in iran or china or anywhere else around the world. nothing has changed about the president's firm belief in the power of democracy and democratic institutions. >> some of the protestors overseas are calling for total regime change, and the ouster of xi jinping, the white house is stopping short of that. they met a few weeks ago. critics on capitol hill including texas senator ted cruz say a lot can be done to say change is needing, he says the response by the biden administration is worse than expected. ccp or the chinese communist party should know in the coming months or the years u.s. will hold accountable every ccp official responsible for the atrocities against the protestors. antony blinken is expected to meet china next year, to keep the open dialogue going. but if the protests are only larger or more violence that could have a big impact and more consequential for what we have seen. as

the reception in the white house he would stop by security, but eventually it was bounced for and was greeted by lincoln who asked douglas how we like the speech and told the assembled group that douglas was his great friend. douglas told me like the speech betty walked away. johnson joins lincoln at the reception and i'm going to let frederick douglass. tell the story of what happened next. this is from douglas's 1881 life and times of frederick douglas. so it's about 16 years. later. i was standing in the crowd when mr. lincoln touched mr. johnson appointed me out to him the first expression which came to his face in which i think was the true index of his heart was one of bitter contempt and aversion. seeing that i observed him. he tried to assume a more friendly appearance, but it was too late. it is useless to close the door when all within has been seen. his first glance was the frown of the man. the second was the bland and sickly smile of the demagogue. i turned to this is dorsey douglas is cool, my friend and said whatever andrew johnson may be he certainly is no friend of our race. it's it's a great passage. douglas is a great writer. i am an english profe

white house on when it comes to supporting the protesters? >> steve, wear on the side of peaceful protest. we are on the side of individuals being able to freely assembleare. we are not taking a side in terms of what these protesters are about. largely though, steve. >> brian: why? >> these protesters are really out there about the lockdown. their main concern that drove them to the streets was the very severe, very strin jentd cody policies by xi's administration and that's what has really been driving all this public protest. >> ainsley: you said the president is not going to speak for the protesters you got a lot of criticism for that saying they can't speak for themselves. they risk being beaten or arrested. dan crenshaw tweeted why is it so hard for this administration to support freedom, pure coward to dis? what do you say? >> what i meant by saying that we are not going to put our words into their mouths. they are speaking for themselves. they are out in the streets. they are braving the elements to make clear what their views are they are speaking for themselves. we'll stand up for the right of every citizen around the world to be able to speak

should be allowed the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that they take issue with. >> that tracks largely what we've heard from white houseials on paper today. let's bring in nbc foreign correspondent raf sanchez live from london. take us through what the protests are and what is next, raf. >> reporter: we are seeing these protests at a scale and with an audacity that is certainly unprecedented in the ten years that the chinese president xi jingping has been in office, and some people will tell you, really unlike anything we have seen in china since 1989, and the tiananmen square protest, just to give you a sense of the scale, these protests started last week, in a little city all the way in the northwest of china and there was a fire in an apartment building there, and videos on social media, basically show fire crews unable to reach the scene in time to save the lives of ten people who died in that fire, seven adults and three kids. and basically, there was a furious reaction that seems that these covid restrictions stopped the fire crew from getting there, and over the weekend, we've seen these protests spread all the

they will be assembling this weekend in what is being viewed as the first major gop power in the race for the white housea hand full of republicans including ron desantis arts cited to speak at the republican jewish coalition's annual meeting after president trump launched his bid at mar-a-lago at ron desantis, mike pence, mike pompeo, and former ambassador to the you -- to the united nations nikki haley are said to address the gathering." we will have that for you on our website, c-span.org, and on our video app, c-span now. let's hear from david, fort lauderdale, florida. independent line. good morning. what is your top news story -- top news stories? caller: merrick garland is the right person for this job and i cannot believe people think trump is actually going to run for president. all he is trying to do is extract money from his maga colt. host: that hear from david in memphis, tennessee. caller: i would like to talk about authoritarianism. back to trump's announcement, he claimed directly he had strengthened our military and that appeals to me. i think that was something that let go -- and that w

regularly the white house carefully picks up the steps of our message to peaceful demonstrators around the world in the same and consistent way. the people must be given the right to assembletest peacefully against the policies of laws and regulations with which they do not agree. does the white house support their attempts, so to speak, to restore their personal freedoms the white house supports the right to peaceful protest note how unpretentious how the white house discusses in all seriousness how much washington can to support the protesters in beijing, the chinese protests are right now on the front pages of all american british newspapers at the same time in germany, the police are beating their protesters in france with batons and rubber bullets. they are trying to stop their protest, but only china is exceptional on the front pages, despite the fact that in comparison with europe, the protests there look rather liquid. how it's called? double standards and hypocrisy in the donbass are transferred to direct communication daniil bessonov danila hello , well, for the first time in recent times, it seems that we neatly we hope and carefully we test. optimism from the f

they will be assembling this weekend in what is being viewed as the first major gop power in the race for the white housea hand full of republicans including ron desantis arts cited to speak at the republican jewish coalition's annual meeting after president trump launched his bid at mar-a-lago at ron desantis, mike pence, mike pompeo, and former ambassador to the you -- to the united nations nikki haley are said to address the gathering." we will have that for you on our website, c-span.org, and on our video app, c-span now. let's hear from david, fort lauderdale, florida. independent line. good morning. what is your top news story -- top news stories? caller: merrick garland is the right person for this job and i cannot believe people think trump is actually going to run for president. all he is trying to do is extract money from his maga colt. host: that hear from david in memphis, tennessee. caller: i would like to talk about authoritarianism. back to trump's announcement, he claimed directly he had strengthened our military and that appeals to me. i think that was something that let go -- and that w

assemble and to express those views. not what the protestors are about. >> the topic of social media generally, we expect there to be some follow-up to the white house commenthat they are keeping an eye on twitter. something kevin mccarthy walked out of a white house meeting to say is offensive to him. we also hope to get some new insight into the administration's decision to let u.s.-based chevron drill in venezuela, and expect to hear the white house explain further how the president is supporting this deal that takes away rail union workers right to strike, the same week he is saluting union workers, like he always does. >> i've been so pro union my whole career, unions built the middle class. >> we have world class high skilled committed workers, union workers, highly trained, highly skilled workers in the entire world. >> there are some hurt feelings about this deal to avoid a strike. it passed the house but no sure thing in the senate. bernie sanders says he wants seven days of paid leave for these rail workers which is not in the deal. marco rubio is saying he thinks congress intervening is heavyhanded. president biden just put out a statement where

white house officials endorsed the protest, but stopped short of condemning the chinese president is, i think a moment to reassert what? what what we believe in when it comes to free assemblym, and peaceful protest, and we've done that, and we'll continue to do that. whether it's people protesting in iran or china or anywhere else around the world. historians say these are the most significant protests in china since the pro democracy movement in the 19 eighties. the unrest in china has had an impact on us stock markets. all three indexes dropped significantly yesterday. they are rebounding so far this morning, along with the markets across china. musk is accusing apple and its ceo of censorship must issue the stream of tweets , accusing apple of halting advertising on twitter and threatening to remove the social media platform from the app store must tag apple ceo tim cook and the threat asking him what's going on? apple has yet to respond to request for comment. many advertisers have paused there at campaigns on twitter since musk bought the company just last month, tens of thousands of striking university of california workers remain off the job for the third week in a

white house officials endorsed the protest but stopped short of condemning the communist party. this is, uh, i think a moment. to reassert what ? what what we believe in when it comes to free assemblyl protest, and we've done that and will continue to do that, whether it's people protesting in iran or china or anywhere else around the world. these are the most significant protests in china since the pro democracy movement in the 19 eighties and the first of xi jinping's presidency. an increase in six children battling the flu or a bad cold, or rsv is causing trouble at the pharmacy for weeks. now, children's tylenol and motrin have been hard to find around the bay area. ktvu is, brooks jarocz explains. the huge demand is behind the scarcity of the medication. it was scary because i don't like any sick a lot. for weeks. some sick kids have had to suffer because of this empty shells. hard to find a lot of stuff, stock or no stock on pharmacy shelves. the missing items, children's tylenol, motrin and cough medicine. i went to cvs s and then finally found some at safeway family traveled from concord to walnut creek just to get what they needed was a challenge. yeah, so we kind of resor

assembled this morning to witness the wedding of naomi biden and her fiance peter neil. this is, of course, as you said, the 9th wedding in history to take place at the white house.lose with their grandchildren, obviously, especially naomi, and i'm hearing that the first lady had a lot to do with the planning of this wedding. last night there was a rehearsal dinner across the street from the white house where they celebrated. today after the ceremony which is as we can hear happening right now, guests go inside the white house where there will be a small reception, luncheon just for the wedding party and family, and then later this evening guests will return to the white house for what i'm hearing will be a black tie blowout reception with dessert and dancing. the bride and groom living in washington. they are actually living in the white house and have been for several months. they are both lawyers here in washington. >> and of course, kate, the burning question for me is the cake. what do we know about the cake? >> reporter: well, now, they haven't released any details. i will say this. from past white house we hadings, tricia nixon, the johnson girls, anyone w

assembly. >> then? >> and i could go on, but go two to 2018, historic losses there. >> '20? >> he lost in '20, the first president to lose the house, the senate, and the white house. >> '22. >> then in '22. >> that's four. >> he keeps lose, and it's entering, we'll see if republicans continue to stay on this path that guarantees them more losses in 2024. others said it before the election, conservative right wink hosts, we have to move on. but some republicans still can't do that. >> well, meanwhile, former vice president mike pence is speaking out in a new interview saying donald trump's announcement won't stop him if he decides to make his own presidential run. we're going to play those remarks for you. and with his race now over, georgia governor brian kemp is set to testify today in that state's investigation into interference in the 2020 election. we'll go live to the courthouse in atlanta for a report on that. but we start with the nbc news decision desk projecting democrat katie hobbs defeating republican kari lake in the race to become arizona's next governor. nbc news senior capitol correspondent garrett haake has the latest from west palm beach, w

consistent, people should be allowed the right to assemble and peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates they take issue with. >> does the white house support the efforts to regain personal freedoms in light of the lockdowns? >> the white house respects peaceful protest. host: that is john kirby it the white house yesterday. you can call and comment on the white house response as you see it, if you think it is too forceful (202) 748-8000, too weak (202) 748-8001, and (202) 748-8002 if you think it is just right. the posttests were sparked by an incident in a capital where firefighters were slow to put out a fire and five people died. the city government denies delays. people took to the streets to call for the end of lockdowns. the story adding that the show defines is one of china's most surveilled regions. when it comes to republican response to this, the new york times picking up the story that one of the responses the administration drew of criticism came from texas republic senator ted cruz saying, the bidens administration response -- the bite administration's response has been were sent expected. -- the biden response has bee

assembly line it will increase the inventory of weapons that are effective. russia is using the drones to attack heat, power and water sources. this is something the white housein the war against ukraine with the united states, of course, on the other side of that deal. >> yeah. it is a disturbing development because even know the russias not particularly skilled in the drones they don't have to be. they can be in the area and still cause real damage and that's what they see if the ruins struggled in this war and seen a humiliating retreat after another but hit upon something that's working and targeting civilian infrastructure. these are not war targets. not military targets. if russia wants to sow chaos and this is a way to do it and they have hit power structures, electrical grids and temperatures are getting colder there. there's real fear that ukraine will be in the dark. that's a real worry. using the drones to take out the infrastructure targets and the temperatures are freezing. just this morning ukrainians officials say there will be evacuation orders. the residents are there over the winter if they don't have heat or power. if the russians do this t

should be allowed the right to assemble and peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates they take issue with. >> their efforts to regain personal freedom? >> the white housesupports the right of peaceful protest. >> john kirby from the white house, we will show what the administration is saying about these protests, you can comment on the white house's response. if you think it's too forceful, 748-8000. if you think it is too we, 748-3001, and 8,002 if you think the response is about right when it comes to these protests with some context things protests were sparked in part because an evening in china, the capital of northwest changing, 10 people died after firefighters were slow to put out an apartment complex blaze, residents blame 0 covid restrictions for the tragedy, people took to the streets to call for end to the lockdown, which faced the harshest controls since 2020 and adding the show of defiance is one of the most availed regions touched a nerve across the country. when it comes to republican response, new york times picking up a story that one of the responses the administration drew criticism came from texas republican senator ted cruz saying

the white house has avoided directly criticizing china's handling but acknowledges that the country's restrictions were impacting the global economy. >> people should be allowed the right to assemble protest policies or laws that dictate what they take issue with. >> reporter: the dow tanking on the news, down nearly 500 points at close on monday as the price of oil also dropped over fears that protests and lockdowns in china will dent demand. and this growing unrest and continued lockdowns are causing major supply chain issues in china. many apple stores are seeing iphone 14 shortages of up to 40% as we head into the holiday season. and, guys, there doesn't seem to be any sign that this is slowing down. shanghai disney just announced they are closing down again after only being open for four days. robin? >> something we haven't seen before. all right, thank you so much, maggie. >>> now to a guilty plea from the man who opened fire in a buffalo grocery store killing ten people. stephanie ramos is in buffalo for us. good morning, stephanie. >> reporter: good morning, robin. in the courtroom the man accused of killing ten people and injuring three others simply said, yes and guilty,