neighbors against neighbors. a fight over who gets to use the river that fuels life. we visit two states that are facing off. hello. welcome to the lead. we begin this hour with our world lead. a pair of escalating international crises. russia and the united states are now indicating they re ready to hold talks about a prisoner swap. just a day after a russian court convicted american basketball star brittney griner of drug smuggling, and sentenced her to nine years in prison. potential prisoner swap talks could include fellow american paul whelan who has been detained in russia since 2018. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first another crisis unfolding. china is taking dramatic new steps of retaliation for house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan including sanctioning pelosi and her family. plus, military escalation. taiwan s defense ministry reports dozens of chinese war planes crossing into its air defense territory today. in return, the white house summon
u.s. defense officials. plus in climate talks with the united states and sanctioning pelosi and her immediate family. still, a muted u.s. military response in the region. an intercontinental ballistic missile test postponed out of concern china could misinterpret it. the aircraft carrier ronald reagan expected to return to port in japan next week, after staying at sea for just a handful of extra days to maintain a u.s. presence near taiwan. and we now have the first substantive statement from the acting doj press secretary, and he says, i quote, the prc has chosen to overreact and use the speaker s visit as a pretext to increase provocative military activity in and around the taiwan strait. part of this overreaction has been strictly limiting its defense engagements when any responsible state would recognize that we need them now
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biden s victory. so what more do we know about that request, potential request? reporter: there is a big question, erica, about what white house officials, other than trump were instrumental in pushing the d.o.j. to push the false claims of fraud. the chair of the senate wants to talk to mark meadows. it is unclear if he will testify or if they will have to get bipartisan buy-in for a subpoena. we learned meadows helped push those false theories. we ve seen five emails from meadows in late december, early january where he asked the acting d.o.j. to look into fraud in georgia and new mexico. meadows even asked d.o.j. to investigate what was a far flung conspiracy theory that people in italy had used military technology and satellites to remotely switch votes for trump for trump to biden. and we know that rosen declined to set up a meeting between the fbi and a man who is promoting those italy conspiracy theories.
fronts. we are now tracking two major development side of the deep state including one discovery that could absolutely ruin sleepy creepy crazy uncle joe biden s presidential dreams. first, we do turn to an important update from the doj inspector general, michael horowitz. remember, we heard from attorney general barr, we thought that the fisa abuse investigation will be concluded and released in may. according to our own catherine herridge tonight, several key witnesses have now come forward in the 11th hour and are now cooperating with the inspector general. remember, the prosecutor, john durham, is also interviewing christopher steele, who i m pretty certain it is going to stick to his sworn testimony in an immigrant dominic interrogatory in great britain. he had no idea if any of the dossier was true. the outcome of the same dossier that was supposedly verified in october of 2016 by jim comey. remember, then used as a backdoor before the campaign come after the campaign, even presi