the whatsapp messages date back to 2017. what they show is hunter biden writing to a chinese energy official saying i can make $5 million in salary from any law firm in america. if you think it s about money, it s not. the bidens are the best at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership. dana: republicans say the chairman is a chinese oil tycoon and that guy has since gone missing. meanwhile the i.r.s. agent who blew the whistle on the hunter biden tax investigation is talking. he said investigators gave hunter special treatment. bill: the agent is trying to expose corruption. because every taxpayer deserves to be treated fairly and it was my oath of office to make sure that happens. bill: new york post reporter john levine is here but first david spunt at the justice department. good morning. good morning to you both. several key points in this new interview between bret baier and gary shapley, the i.r.s. supervisor special agent who is the whis
vladimir putin today appearing with his advisors as he tries to reassert his authority, saying he is in control despite the wagner group s weekend rebellion. translator: you can see the army, society, and people were one. this has allowed us to overcome the extremely dangerous situation that the country was in. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we have breaking news from the supreme court as the session comes to a close this week or next. a decision written by chief justice roberts rejecting republican efforts to allow state legislatures authority to regulate federal elections without review by state supreme courts. the decision was a big relief for voting rights groups who had feared the high court would validate republican efforts to prevent any challenges to gerrymandering of congressional districts. the dispute began in north carolina after their supreme court struck down a new congressional map drown in 2021 by the state s republican-controlled legislature
with people who didn t have clearance. . how critical could that piece of evidence be in this case? plus, russian president vladimir putin speaks. the defiant president trying to project strength after the weekend rebellion, forcing new questions about his power. we re going to have a live report from moscow coming up as well. we begin, though, at the supreme court, where we expect more decisions to be released at any moment. we re watching for decisions on highly consequential issues. the court often waits to release the most controversial decisions until the end of a term. and we re getting right down to the wire here, folks. if we get one of those major decisions, we re going to bring you that and the very latest right away there. we re also monitoring some dramatic new developments in the trump classified documents investigation. an audio recording has surfaced in which the former president appears to discuss classified documents with people who did not have security
happened. china is still the enemy. what now? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. secretary blinken says his talk with china s foreign minister and other officials was constructive. earlier after his meeting with the president of the communist nation, blinken said this. united states is committed to doing that. in the interest of china and unities and the world. we covered a broad range of subjects. i appreciate this opportunity to discuss this with you. harris: i pay way more attention to they do than what china says. the white house said it didn t exist and cleared up last week there is in fact a communist chinese spy base in cuba watching the united states. there are remaining tensions over the chinese spy craft that flew across the continental u.s. sending intelligence back to china realtime. china s ramped up aggression toward taiwan. so was it good to meet now? mixed reaction from republicans. despite our differences and despite the ratcheting
jinping. they are trial stabilize the two super powers secretary blinken, we are following that meeting this morning, former president trump and his attorneys ordered not to disclose evidence in the mar-a-lago classified documents case members of his administration ramp up their criticism. do you believe he lied to the justice department do i personally believe it? yes. he constantly engaged in reckless conduct. ukraine making gains in its counteroffensive against russia, recapturing a village in the southeast on sunday. carrying out a strike on rusch s ammunition depot deep behind enemy lines this morning, an increasing tensions between the u.s. and china. secretary of state antony blinken became the highest ranking official in the biden administration to visit that country. he met with china s president xi jinping for 35 minutes and had an hour s long talk with china s top diplomats. the u.s. is describing the meeting candid and constructive and the china foreig