. >> the greatest threat to their control since the tiananmen square uprising. >> words of praise -- >> i spoke with president xi and they're working very, very hard. >> -- turned to darker rhetoric. >> you should ask china. china was very secretive, very, very secretive. >> as the battle that began in china becomes a world war. >> holy [ bleep ], this is going pandemic. >>> good evening. i'm fareed zakaria. once upon a time there was just one person, a single patient in wuhan, china with a fever and a cough. how did we go from that first case to a global catastrophe? could the virus have been stopped or slowed down? what happened in the earliest days when doctors and local officials knew they were at war with a brand-new virus, untreatable, contiguous, deadly? this is the story of china and covid-19. what did the chinese government know and when did they know it? >>> the story begins on a beautiful night last fall. the biggest celebration in china's history. the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china. a spectacular eruption of joy and pride and victory. for a country tha

the chinese government censorship office seeks to edit anything to do with tibet, taiwan, tiananmen square, human rights, democracy, religion or any criticism of communism. particularly the chinese communist party. recently the chinese government succeeded in forcing changes to movies such as top gun the sql, doctor strange, sky fall, the remake of red dawn, pixels, liver, bohemian rhapsody, all movies that were changed. bohemian rhapsody, the chinese commonest party edited out references to the fact that freddie mercury was gay. and doctor strange, they changed the ancient one's character from tibetan as portrayed in the comic book to celtic. in the top gun sql that assessed to come out later this year the taiwanese and japanese flags on the back of maverick's jacket were removed to appease the chinese communist party. think about that for a second. what message does it send that maverick, an american icon, is apparently afraid of the chinese communists? that is ridiculous. that is why today i am introducing the script act which would cut off hollywood studios from the assistance they rec

least since 1009 when beijing yeah crack down on the student movement here in beijing that to tiananmen square. but aside from hong kong waging also seems to be hardening its language with taiwan which it regards as a breakaway province. yeah i mean prime minister today gave a speech and he basically encouraged all the citizens in taiwan to promote reunification with the motherland with china and usually they would always at the term peaceful reunification and this time he left out the word peacefully actually that's a symbolic sign and yes. religious elected or reelected a new president that's very very critical towards beijing and even the opposition that's more friendly to what's beijing's human base also distancing itself much more to beijing they are not many people left who actually favor unification with china it's only a very very small minority. 5 extra in beijing reporting thank you. for the national people's congress in china is being held as the country has abandoned its annual economic growth target for the 1st time in 30 years it's out of the coronavirus and global uncertainty in

>> well, china has more global pressure on that than they've ever had since tiananmen square.o agree with the think tank's proposition. what we see is the major disinformation campaign in earnest, that they are always very good at this, but they are in a full court press because china is absolutely paranoid, harris, about their image. there international and public image, and also their domestic image. they are pushing back on this considerably. also, they are stepping up military activity in the south china sea, in the east china sea, in the western pacific, because they want to demonstrate to our allies that the united states, as it's going through the covid-19 spread, they are weakened militarily in the region. we are the dominant force in the region, and the united states would have difficulty ever regaining their status. that portion of the campaign, every portion of the campaign is that they did not originate here in the united states actually has somewhat of responsibility in this. so they are telling boldfaced lies to protect their image. it's backfiring on them in a w

hn: beijing's tiananmen square was quiet. there are no protest over lockdowns here.nside, china's presidentnad a spring i his step, bringing the virus under control seen as vindication for him and for a system on troubled by messy democrat debate. there can be no starker illustration of that than this, a new national security law imposed on hong kong with 2,878 votes in favor and just one against. the fear that any anti-china purchase might be classe as subversion has led to internationa outcry, including this surprise announcement for the 200,000 hongheh ovseas passports. --british overseas passports. >>path, we will changhat status and remove the six-monthit and allow those passport holders toome to the u.k. and applied to work and study for extendable periods of 12 mths anthat would provide a pathway to future citizenship. : tove will infuriate china, which insists its new law will only target a minority of vient demonstrators. >> the decision adopt f is design steady implementation of one country, two systems, an and hong kong's prosperity. wlhn: but china is slo

now is the approach of the 31st anniversary of tiananmen square, more focus on human rights in china,et, hong kong, all of china, including in beijing and of course with the uighurs. the statement that was made by the secretary of state about -- under the law that we passed last fall, which was a strengthening of the hong kong democracy act, the secretary of state had to certify that china was honoring the basic law, the terms of the relationship of one country, two systems. the secretary has stated that he cannot certify that that is the case. and so we want everyone to oppose this law that the chinese are putting forth to take away that autonomy from hong kong. so much going on. so much going on. again today on the floor, we are not going to be taking up the bill that was sent over by the senate, the fisa bill. yesterday in the morning, the republican on the committee of jurisdiction, one of the committees of jurisdiction, judiciary, mr. jordan, testified in favor of the bill. sometime after that, the president said he would veto the bill. so all of the republicans then abandoned th

as they arrived for the closing day of parliament, beijing's tiananmen square was quiet. no protests over lockdowns here. inside, china's president had a spring in his step, bringing the virus under control is seen as vindication, for him, and for a system untroubled by messy democratic debate. there can be no starker illustration of that than this. a new national security law imposed on hong kong with 2878 votes in favour and just one against. the fear that any anti—china protest might now be classed as subversion has led to an international outcry, including this surprise announcement for the 300,000 hong kongers who hold british overseas passports. if china continues down this path and implements this national security legislation we would change that status and we will remove the six month limit and allow those bno passport holders to come to the uk and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to citizenship. the move will infuriate china which insists its new law will target only a minority of violent demon

security has already warned anti-china sentiment around the world is at its highest level since the tiananmen square massacre of 1989. kenneth and mona. >> all right, alex, thank you. >>> an employee at a poultry plant in nebraska is the latest worker in the meat industry to die from covid-19. meanwhile tyson foods says the production of pork has dropped 50% because of plant closures. wholesale meat prices are up 60%. many stores are absorbing that price increase, but consumers will see gradual price increases. beef is temporarily off the menu at this wendy's. the restaurant in michigan is blaming it on a supply shortage. in wisconsin there's a virus outbreak at a vegetable plant and the national guard is helping to test workers. >>> all right, time now for a look at your tuesday morning weather. a fierce storm blew through parts of kansas and missouri. winds topped 70 miles an hour and hail the size of a quarter was also seen in some areas. but the real story today is the falling temperatures. take a look. parts of the northeast could drop below freezing this morning before rebounding into the 50s

as they arrived for the closing day of parliament, beijing's tiananmen square was quiet.ent had a spring in his step, the virus under control is seen as vindication for him and for a system untroubled by messy democratic debate. there can be no starker illustration of that than this. a new national security law imposed on hong kong with 2,878 votes in favour and just one against. the fear that any anti—china protest might now be classed as subversion has led to an international outcry, including this surprise announcement for the 300,000 hong kongers who hold british overseas passports. if china continues down this path and implements this national security legislation, we will change that status and we will remove the 6—month limit and allow those bno passport holders to come to the uk and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to future citizenship. the move will infuriate china, which insists its new law will target only a minority of violent demonstrators. translation: the decision adopted is designed for

aspects to it as an example, not being able to teach the real history of china as if things like tiananmen square did not exist. that's not something we should allow to happen here in this country. that doesn't comply with our standards here of honesty and intellectual standards that says you have to teach the actual history, not what the chinese communist party says is the history. our students shouldn't be subject to that. these confucius institutes have also spent a lot of money in this country. so schools have taken money and they have not properly reported it. that's what our report indicated. and as a result, the department of education is now cracking down on some of these schools to say you got at a minimum report the funding. our subcommittee is right now wrapping up its review of three chinese government-owned telecom firms that the f.c.c., federal communications system licensed to operate here 20 years ago. we share concerns with the justice department regarding these telecommunications companies complying with u.s. law enforcement requests and whether these entities pose a national se

the next big event isjune four, the sist next big event isjune four, the 31st anniversary of tiananmen squarehe chinese policy on hong kong and taiwan. but over the past few years, young people have banded together andi young people have banded together and i think that this will continue despite what has happened today, which is over 100 people, most young people, where arrested.. professor, thank you very much for being with us, thank you for your time. the headlines on bbc news... senior members of the uk‘s conservative party call for the prime minister‘s top aide to resign, as dominic cummings faces fresh allegations that he breached lockdown rules. china‘s foreign minister accuses some politicians in the united states of trying to push the two countries to the brink of a new cold war. police in hong kong arrest dozens of people participating in the first pro—democracy protests since beijing announced plans to impose a new security law on the territory. the afghan president, ashraf ghani, has used his eid message to the country to announce that the government is to speed up the release of

as they arrived for the closing day of parliament, beijing's tiananmen square was quiet.e virus under control is seen as vindication, for him, and for a system untroubled by messy democratic debate. there can be no starker illustration of that than this. a new national security law imposed on hong kong with 2878 votes in favour and just one against. the fear that any anti—china protest might now be classed as subversion has led to an international outcry, including this surprise announcement for the 300,000 hong kongers who hold british overseas passports. if china continues down this path and implements this national security legislation we would change that status and we will remove the six month limit and allow those bno passport holders to come to the uk and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to citizenship. the move will infuriate china which insists its new law will target only a minority of violent demonstrators. translation: the decision adopted is designed for steady implementation of one country,

think, ift issue, i we see a tiananmen square-like scenario unfolding in hong kong. then the question is, what does the u.s. do? aboutw, we are talking sanctions. you are looking at 24/7 news. it is not something that can be covered up. then you have to ask what our response will be. scarlet: good contrast to what we have seen in the past. quincy crosby, thank you so much. that does it for "the closing bell." "what'd you miss?" is up next. we will be following the first man to launch into space from u.s. soil in decades. nasa says the rocket is being fueled as we speak. this is bloomberg. ♪ romaine: broadcasting live from new york tower viewers worldwide, i am romaine bostick and this is "what'd you miss?" scarlet: the indexes powered above, the s&p 500 closed its 200 day moving average, increasing optimism that we have seen the worst of the economic pain as several parts of the u.s. reopened. we are keeping an ion what is going on in florida because all systems are a go. at capethe launchpad canaveral in florida. time,3 p.m. eastern spacex will attempt to launch two

in china they are interested and in tiananmen square there were hundreds if not thousands that were interested in it and in hong kong you see people interested i not being extraditd to china and by the hundreds of thousands we can be disappointed that we still have a chinese government that is authoritarian but i think we can be encouraged that there is still resistance. they think we send the military in and conquer china. it doesn't seem to work out that way. >> host: you talk about the purges the necessary flow from the socialism. i know there are a lot of conservatives. with the purging of the viewpoint and thought. >> guest: you hav have to monopolize the criticism come you can't handle criticism and the consistent thing. there were secret police under hitler and under stalin, every one of these regimes and so forth. the question is not an accident, unfortunately it went that direction and it's really inherent but they cannot handle the debate is ultimately it will lead to dissent and unraveling. >> host: final issue i want to address, it wouldn't be a rand paul that if there were not the

to reuters, saying the global backlash is similar to worldwide outrage to the crack down of tiananmen square 30 years ago. this could lead to a shut down to projects like the road and making the security situation from china's perspective in asia much less stable the paper concluded that the u.s. would fan this sentiment as a way to undercut china's rise what is not clear is how seriously beijing's leaders would be taking this report. foreign ministry hasn't commented on it. i found interesting that this report leaked at all that highlights some of the divisions within the chinese government about this much more combative, aggressive style we are seeing come out of beijing >> going both ways i would imagine. we have seen reports i look at the pages and the south china post that there have been some criticisms they call the american virus how much discussion about the united states is going on in the pain levels in the last two months >> there has been a lot of discussion on line of course, we don't know exactly the true nature of the discussion because it is all being sensored and vetted on

chinese authorities they were too tired to go on a tour of the great wall and they snuck out to tiananmen square, the congressman she was with had smuggled banner in his underwear from hong kong day pulled it out to say those who died for democracy in china then immediately attacked by the chinese police who chased them out of the square and detain some of the journalist that were covering this you can still see the video. and then caused bodily harm for this full demonstration. and politically as well. and with the democratic leader at the time. and then she encourage your colleagues and then the war resolution against because she believes so strongly as the top democrat on the intelligence committee and has seen the case and she didn't think it called for scrutiny. she is known for her stealing is fact that boldness which powered to lead we run for leadership are literally no woman ever had the top leadership position and is still the only woman to lead her party in the house of congress and to take on the male-dominated establishment there are only 23 women in the house when she got there out

than what we are seeing economic liberty makes people more interested in political liberty in tiananmen square there were hundreds of not thousands of people interested and in hong kong people are very interested not to be extradited to china by the hundreds of thousands. we can be disappointed we still have chinese government that is authoritarian but we can be encouraged there is resistance. how we get there i don't know it separates the more livery one - - liberated minded people i see the problem in venezuela and china but they thinks and the military we will give a new government and everything is great unfortunately that doesn't seem to work out that way. >> you talk about the purges that flow from socialism i know there are a lot of conservatives concerned about losing fair debate the don't want to debate the economic principles instead one day deep platform so why does socialism accelerate that viewpoint? >> because once you monopolize the economy then you have to monopolize criticism and it is a consistent theme secret place under hitler, stalin , pol pot, mel one - - mao and then it

handling of the virus in wuhan and saw this as the greatest threat to their control since the tiananmen squarea of course. >> they needed to maintain some kind of safety valve, allow this outpouring of grief and rage to spill out in the relative confines of the internet. otherwise it was going to end up in the streets. >> the regime quickly turned to another tool in its arsenal, propaganda. >> overnight they made a switch. instead of dr. li being an enemy of the state, all of a sudden he became a hero. in some ways what they did was an act of political desperation. >> the chinese government pointed out that dr. li was a proud member of the communist party. the government awarded dr. li wenliang one of the country's highest honors. it called him a martyr. as china's measures to contain the virus seemed to work, a sense of national pride began to grow. in early march with the disease seemingly under control, xi went to wuhan himself. >> they wanted to create this very clear impression of this one man leading this national response against the virus. this is the man who has led you out of harm's

if they make that choice then they think the world will react in a way just like they did in tiananmen square. >> martha: how does the relationship change with taiwan, given what happened with china? how does that relationship change, is that stronger now with taiwan? >> that one is way above my pay grade. i will leave secretary pompeo and robert o'brien to talk about that. all i can tell you is right now it's important for america to make it here. if we've learned anything about this crisis, we don't want to be dependent particularly on china but even the rest of the world during a pandemic. it has to be made. >> martha: so what do you say to pharmaceutical companies. so how -- everyone wants this and there's a lot of momentum behind it, but i think a lot of us would be surprised, happily surprised if it actually happens. what are you saying to those pharmaceutical companies? >> i love that question martha because one of the epiphanies that america has to have, whether it's farmout or aircraft or automobiles or whatever it is, they tend to want to operate like the vatican and kind of run the

with global sentiment against the chinese communist party at its highest since the 1989 tiananmen square crackdown, it's important that world leaders, including president trump, keep pressure on china to finally be transparent with its data so that we can join together in combatting this deadly disease. now we have a report from the department of homeland security. that report says that china, quote, intentionally concealed the severity, unquote of the pandemic from the world. to make matters worse, the report further states that while china continued to down play the pandemic, it began to increase imports and decrease exports of medical supplies. so this report from department of homeland security suggests that china was beginning to hoard these medical supplies from the rest of the world. so they knew how bad this was in their own country. secretary pompeo recently stated that there is a significant amount of evidence that this virus came from the laboratory in wuhan, china, contrary to what chinese communist party propagandists have been pushing throughout the world. on april 9, i wro

and celebrated this man while he was in washington, while he was there, he said nobody died in tiananmen squareput together a hearing in two days, invited him to testify, saying you don't get away with lies and beijing in china, you're not going to get away with that. i have people who survived and watched it, the point is the pattern and deception is now having consequences for people in my district, our state, the country, and the world, 10,800 people have died in new jersey, disproportionately people in nursing homes, this is a tragedy and it's all in my humble opinion because of willful deception -- we need to hold china to account and the w.h.o. the other bill that i'm sure they don't like would establish a truth commission. >> laura: congressman, i could spend an hour with you. you are one of the most dedicated fighters for the pro-life cause and against what china has done for the last two decades plus and i want to thank you for your work on behalf of freedom and the protection of life, come back soon. president trump with an important message about america's can-do attitude, just what

party leaders expect a global backlash from the wuhan virus contagion not seen since the deadly tiananmen squarereport from the ccp's state security department warns to prepare for the worst case, an armed confrontation with the united states. joining us to i assess all of this, gordon chang, columnist, author, senior fellow at the gatestone institute and washington times national security columnist bill gertz who has a new book available online tomorrow. good to have you both with us. let me start, gordon, with you. the idea that they are preparing for armed conflict with the united states at least in this report, your reaction to that. >> well, we've seen since the middle of february china increase the tempo of provocations in the south china sea and the east china sea. and they're not only going after adversaries like japan and taiwan, they're also going after their friends such as a malaysia. but also we've seen problems with vietnam, indonesia and the philippines. and this increased series of incidents really is troubling because right now you have voices in china saying that they should at

the corbis images of the tiananmen square protests in june, 1989, were once readily accessible. now, although the chinese corporation that bought them has an american outlet, they are not. it's a valuable lesson. large commercial image archives reach viewers through mediated search engines that are subject to censorship and control. and unlike the prospective researcher who might be turned away from a bricks and mortar archive, online researchers might never know they are missing anything. so, historians tempted by the digital turn need to be wary. digital archives, especially commercial ones, can actually impede historical research. what kind of historical source is a pixelated image whose creator we can't identify, whose original form we cannot discern, whose integrity we can't confirm, and whose purpose we can't figure out? what kind of source is an archive whose scope we cannot determine, whose political and economic ambitions are concealed from view? the problems of digital images aside, there exists billions of photographs produced before the invention of digital photograp

aspects to it as an example, not being able to teach the real history of china as if things like tiananmen square did not exist. that's not something we should allow to happen here in this country. that doesn't comply with our standards here of honesty and intellectual standards that says you have to teach the actual history, not what the chinese communist party says is the history. our students shouldn't be subject to that. these confucius institutes have also spent a lot of money in this country. so schools have taken money and they have not properly reported it. that's what our report indicated. and as a result, the department of education is now cracking down on some of these schools to say you got at a minimum report the funding. our subcommittee is right now wrapping up its review of three chinese government-owned telecom firms that the f.c.c., federal communications system licensed to operate here 20 years ago. we share concerns with the justice department regarding these telecommunications companies complying with u.s. law enforcement requests and whether these entities pose a national se

whether you see the security services pulling people out of their houses in preparation for tiananmen squaresaries, the huge political anniversary. depending on how the chinese handle this, you could see a fierce reaction in a matter of days, or you could see a slow boil through the next couple of months. lisa: why is beijing doing this now? leland: it is tempting to look at this through the prism of u.s.-china relations. certainly there is an element. september, is in hong kong has legislature of council elections. just like the lower elections held months ago, pro-beijing forces look like they will do poorly. if you are ever going to tighten the screws and put in some stronger laws to give beijing control and make sure beijing is not embarrassed, you have to act now in order to change the landscape so beijing is not embarrassed in september. a combination of what is happening externally and happening in hong kong domestically has created a window where beijing has to act if it wants to change what is going to happen in the fall. it looks like that is what it is doing. talkinghn and i were

they haven't had a international crisis of this proportion since tiananmen square in 1989 where theyld now as a pariah on the international stage and yes, if you can get an accounting in terms of financial retribution, if there is means to do that, a legal basis for it, i agree. certainly some sanctions would be in place here, i think, not just unilaterally from the united states but from other countries in the world. i think, much of this, i think should be done as the crisis starts to wind down while everyone is focused on taking care of our people and reopening our economy. as things quiet down somewhat, i think that is the appropriate time to bring the community of nations together to discuss this. melissa: general jack keane, thank you. that comparison with the outrage in the global community over tianamen square is a useful one for us to think about going forward. thank you for that. appreciate it. connell. >> good talking to you, melissa. connell: all right, melissa, we talked a lot about companies that kind of shift gears and do something different in order to combat this cri

i'm wondering if this could be another tiananmen square that we are dealing with or worse. >> obviouslyhat it doesn't get to that. but what we can see is absolutely no willingness to compromise when it comes to hong kong. by the way, that's a clear message for taiwan, the unanswered relationship with taiwan. and, yeah, things are getting much worse. from the hong kong peoples perspective, there is no reason why they should be anymore ready to accept this so-called one country, two systems which is what china promise, giving their territory a higher degree of autonomy in 1997 with the agreement with great britain. i covered that from china. clearly, that is not the direction they are heading. i don't expect the hong kong people to stand down. they have shown their willingness to take to the streets and in increasingly large numbers and protest this alerting trend in the relationship between china and hong kong. >> neil: we have promised a response in this country if china cracks down on hong kong. what do you think that will be? >> i think the most likely move is to take away the special

intelligence agency warned the nation's leaders anti-china sentiment is at its highest point since the tiananmen squaresacre. shannon: thank you. tried to get some clarity on the latest of elements from a member of the house armed services committee. national guard and michael walsh, good to have you with us. we have a little bit of back-and-forth about where this is coming from, the exact origin as china blames us, all our intelligence seems pretty certain this came from wuhan whether it is a lab or wet markets, there seems to be some debate about that but internal chinese report that reuters is talking about saying beijing faces a wave of anti-china sentiment led by the us in the aftermath of the pandemic, needs to be prepared in a worst-case scenario for armed confrontation between the two global powers according to people familiar with the report's content, saying a chinese report. what are the odds this could escalate to that level? >> i don't see that escalating to this level now but i do think a few other things from that report, number one i don't believe the chinese did this deliberately but i

anti-chinese rhetoric and the sentiments as being as high as they were going back some 30 years to the tiananmen squareackdown. and the concern there from the chinese perspective is that the u.s. as they frame it could be pushing hostility that then would lead them to have to prepare for armed conflict. that's how they have phrased this. it is frightening to hear the words, but it also is the reality of where things are right now. >> no question. the context of the trade war, military competition, there are other factors here, david culver in shanghai, thank you very much. >>> joining me now is lisa monaco, former homeland security adviser to president obama, serves on joe biden's pandemic advisory committee. thanks so much, lisa, for joining us this morning. i wonder what your reaction is to china's own study there, worried about this u.s./china battle spiraling out of control, you know, even beyond the pandemic, i don't have to tell you, the trade war with real economic consequences and ongoing military competition between the two countries, how concerned are you that the rhetoric leads to something

this isn't 1989 with tiananmen square. there's phones and social media.is going to get very ugly for china. so why are they undertaking this? got to be fear. there's no other explanation. jon: we will talk about public black eyes. the president's national security advisor robert o'brien compares this with the chernobal disaster. listen. >> unfortunately we're seeing action after action by the chinese communist party that makes it difficult and with respect to the trade deal, we'll see if they live up to it, but we're dealing in a new world now. they unleashed a virus on the world that's destroyed trillions of dollars in american economic wealth. the cover-up that they did of the virus is going to go down in history along chernobal. jon: is that an apt comparison, john? >> there are a lot of parallels certainly. if you look at the historical context here, chernobal was the beginning of the soviet union, being the end of the soviet union, now, china is more homogenous so there's limitationing to this parallel, but in terms of the deception to the world arou

this is essentially the worst anti-china sentiment that has been felt in the world since the tiananmen squaredown in 1989. they go on to say the worst case scenario here, erica, would be armed conflict. >> wow. that is sobering to state least. david culver with the latest for us in china. joining me now is ian bremmer. i'm curious your take on what we heard from david culver there, what china state media is putting out and what reuters is now reporting. that really stops you for a minute. >> certainly it is really plausible we come out of this coronavirus crisis in a cold war between the united states and china. the trump administration really wants to be able to pin blame for what is going to be unacceptable mortality in the united states and handling of all of this on anyone but the trump administration. china is easiest to do. the chinese, xi jinping is facing a lot of domestic irritation, both with the fact it was mishandled at the beginning and also that the americans are getting aggressive towards china and following the worst recession that china is going to be experiencing in decades,

led protesters calling for democracy and free speech were gunned down by chinese military in tiananmen squareecause they were considered a threat to the communist control. today this is still a regime that will stop at nothing to control its people. it has nearly 2 million in detention camps without trial, solely for following their religion, something the government will not allow. >> to explain uighurs, basically the chinese have rounded up muslims, tibetans put them in re-education camps and being guarded by machine guns. >> that's right. they are not allowing them to move freely, indoctrinating them with chinese thoughts, chinese thinking, the ways the west wouldn't do. it is different, historic and it is important. maria: this is a long-term plan to not just control china but the world. china has been economically and militarily positioning itself for global domination and the progress they have made will shock you. >> the bottom line is china's trying to surpass us economically. they believe they will be the dominant superpower, and we still have to win that contest. maria: leading up t

there's an amazing episode where she went to tiananmen square and challenged chinese authorities back. she really is a risk taker. she's a gambler as i said in that risk i wrote for "time" and people who see her as a cautious and calculating politician don't necessarily understand that. >> the book is called "pelosi," thank you so much. >> thank you. >> that what happens it up for this hour. the reverend of a sharpton has joe biden on his show tonight. you can see that at the top of the hour coming you on "politics nation." coming you on "politics nation." hold my pouch. trust us. us kids are ready to take things into our own hands. don't think so? hold my pouch. that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, i just love hitting the open road and telling people so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ tell me, what did verizon build their network for? people. and when people's every day is being challenged... that's when a network shows what it's made of. verizon customers are making an average of over 600 million

final vote, however, will now take place on june 4th, next week, which is the anniversary of the tiananmen squaresacre in beijing. this is incredibly controversial to be placing the vote on that particular day. many people feel this is just rubbing salt into the wounds. hong kong protesters, if sunday was an indication, if today's any indication, considering police have arrested around 240 people, they will not be allowed to gather on the fourth of june to show their respects, to hold that vigil like they have every single year since the massacre. the only place in china where they have been allowed to gather, but police are not allowing any type of assembly of people. every single protest that we've been to throughout the day -- and we haven't seen any violence, rosemary. i think that's very important to note. this is just people gathering, people chanting slogans. one person started playing the anthem to hong kong, "glory be to hong kong." police ran in and detained her. i mean, we are seeing a police force that is showing zero tolerance. and as joshua wong, who i spoke to earlier, he said, thi

they snuck out the back of their hotel to tiananmen square and one of the congressmen as she was withwho played -- on the "dukes of hazzard" in the hopes of becoming a senator. they unfurled it and it said for those who died were democracy in china. they chased them out of the square and attain some of the journalists who were covering it. she quite literally risked bodily harm in order to stage this. old demonstration for what she believed in. and politically as well. back in 2003 when a lot of the top democrats including the democratic house leader at the time including people like hillary clinton and john kerry thought it would be bad poet picks to oppose the iraq war. she came out against it and she encouraged her colleagues to vote against it. she went against the war resolution against her on leadership because she believes so strongly that the war was the wrong thing to do and on the intelligence committee she had seen it and it wasn't up to her scrutiny. she is known for her steely nest but that kind of boldness were too empowered her to where she is today with the boldness to