of mar-a-lago for classified documents. but also since he launched not one, but two special counsel investigations into both former president trump and president biden. we just saw garland walk into the hearing room moments ago. he didn t answer any questions on the way in. we are live on the hill. also, congress intensifies its scrutiny of china. one lawmakers even warning of a, quote existential struggle with the nation during the very first meeting of a house select committee dedicated to china. what we learned. plus, the warning from the head of the fbi about china s efforts to hinder investigations into the origin of covid. we are also following breaking news in greece, a devastating head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train carrying 350 passengers. officials saying dozens were killed with reports of people being thrown out of windows from the impact. the desperate search this morning for survivors in the wreckage. and an extraordinary moment playing ou
trying to influence jurisprudence. and yet not one person, to my knowledge, has been prosecuted for such things under 18 u.s. c section 807. some committee invited some officials from the department of justice to brief committee staff on protests at the justices homes and ask about any arrests that have been made or might be made for people engaged in that behavior. the briefers came to the briefing and informed staff that they hadn t read section 1507. i assume you read it, of course. just wondering why the department would schedule such a briefing on a statute without having read it and especially why no acts have been brought under section 1507 for these actions. i ve got a lot to cover. can you answer that? i ll try to answer all these
work again. our task on this committee is to ensure that it does not. earlier on cnbc, gallagher said tiktok should be banned or should see a forced sale and that congress needs to enact legislation. addressing china s rise, it s seen as one of the few areas of bipartisan support alongside representative gallagher, we saw the congressman from illinois. thank you so very much. that wraps up the hour for me. reach me on twitter and instagram. always watch highlights from today s show online. i thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news after a quick break. money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market s doing, he s ready. and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill,
and i think that s going to be a big topic of discussion even within our committee. they have something called the belt and road initiative, jose. and this bri initiative that the chinese communist party has initiated is an effort to provide developmental help for a lot of countries that are struggling around the world and building infrastructure. the problem is, a, they re often offered on economic terms that are very, very detrimental to the people of that country, although they might be very sweet in terms of incentives and payoffs for the leadership in that country. and then the second thing is it is cultivating soft power around the world in a way that kind of moves countries away from the united states toward the orbit of the prc. so, we should have an alternative and that s something that i think we re going to be talking about within this committee. congressman raja
u.s. companies were called out in the hearing last night for exploiting cheap labor and allowing the chinese regime to grow in size and power. now the question is if the biden administration moves forward with limiting american companies investment into china. several high profile names sharing their concerns about china s rise and the cost to american people and their jobs. perhaps the strongest remarks came from the chair, mike gallagher, who characterized the threat from china as an existential struggle and laid out what he hopes to achieve with this new committee. ccp has found friends on wall street, on k street, in fortune 500 c suites, in the public health community who are ready and willing to oppose our efforts to push back. this strategy has worked well in the past. and the ccp is confident it will