I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, November 16th.

Here are today's headlines. President Joe Biden met with Chinese leader she's

sheing ping for four hours yesterday.

There was the first time the leaders had met in about a year and they met on the

outskirts of San Francisco. Biden said after the meeting that it was a constructive and productive meeting,

Biden and G discussed the threat of fentanyl and specifically stopping the precursor chemicals flowing from China to Mexico,

where the cartels then use those chemicals to make fentanyl.

At a press conference after the meeting, Biden said they made progress on the fentanyl issue,

per Reuters.

So today, with this new understanding, we're taking action to significantly reduce the flow

of precursor chemicals and pill presses from China to the Western Hemisphere.

It's going to save lives and I appreciate President Xi's commitment on this issue.

While Biden called the meeting a success, he also said she is still a dictator.

Well, look, he is.

I mean, he's a dictator in a sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a common country.

Reuters reports that she later responded

to Biden calling him a dictator as wrong.

Moving now to news out of Washington, D.C.

a pro-Palestine and pro-C.

A pro-C. protest outside the Democratic National Committee

headquarters in Washington, D.C. became violent on Wednesday night.

Police said about 150 protesters were illegally and violently protesting.

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