and in london, julie norman, associate professor at university college london and co-director of the on u.s. politics. a warm welcome to you all, and thanks so much for joining us today on "inside story.” julie, let me start with you today, and let's talk for a moment about the significance of all of this. first of all, is this unprecedented? has a search warrant ever been executed at the home of a former u.s. president before? and, you know, what kind of evidence would have been needed, in order to convince a judge to sign off on a search warrant like this? >> sure, so as is widely known by now, this is unprecedented. justice has investigated presidents before, but i never -- before, but never to the extent of a search warrant for a former president. so, as you noted, this would have had to have gotten approval from a federal magistrate judge, as it did. in order to get a warrant, though, it's just probable cause that a crime was committed. so it doesn't necessarily mean there's firm evidence, it doesn't necessarily mean there's going to be a criminal proceeding, it just means that

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julie norman. speaker pelosi is expected to land in taiwan in two hours and 30 minutes.a: and stay there for the night. this is something where she is flying in on a u.s. military plane. this is perhaps not endorsed by the administration, but certainly with the support of the nation. i'm looking to the economic play out. yes, there is the question if there are missiles launched. no one thinks this will escalate into a real military conflict, but the u.s. economy and china and china's precarious position economically raise the specter of the cost and how this could evolve. jonathan: how many times have we discussed the potential of removing tariffs on chinese goods? we were awaiting for a decision from this president, and now -- tom: i agree with lee said that the surprise could be very surgical chinese reactions to the manufacturing process and linkages across the pacific. i think that that is a sleeper no one is talking about. jonathan: i find it highly speculative at the moment. tom: everything we are dealing with, 110 miles between china and taiwan, is massively specu

tom: it's a great honor to have julie norman with this, the codirector on the ecl center of u.s. we digressed today to mr. gorbachev. what is mr. putin hate him so much? is he the guy they gave up the soviet union? >> that's certainly a lot of it. what we see with russia and ukraine today, you can draw a direct line back to gorbachev at a time when putin was coming into his own in the kgb and saw that revolution as a complete tragedy. the changes that gorbachev made before that as well, the opening of the multiparty election. tom: the idea of gorbachev and yeltsin which i've been wrong on. we come to vladimir putin. who is after him? when you look at transfer of power, how can you choose who is after vladimir putin? >> gets a tough question. vladimir putin has consolidated howard so much around the inner circle of the party that it's not like looking at another country where we can say who is competitive in election or whose popular. vladimir putin will try to hold onto power as possible. lisa: corbis jobs death raises a question as to whether russia could be a democracy and whet