. and welcome to hannity. tonight we are broadcasting live from the grand olwee opry i right here in beautiful nashville, tennessee, which is thetennes site of the fifth l patriot awards, by the way, that kicks off tomorrow. you don t want to miss it. 6:30 p.m. only on fox. and coming up, by the way,rock r the one and only kid rock right here on ou our setr set.fun. that s going to be a lot of fun. but we do begin tonight on the west coast where the president of the united states, he just wrapped i a series of high stakes meetings with the dictator of chinagh tor of, president xi. t xi now, this after months of begging and, pleading and begging and ask hissing. well, anyway, america s relationship with china has severely deteriorated since joe biden has become president. and frankly, for good reasonide china, we all know, infected the world with covid 19. disease that killed more than a million americans. there has never been any accountability. they continue to ship massive
Than mediation. At the end of the day we have constant exchanges with President Trump. I share his goals, hell say he doesnt agree with methods, but i want to get there, i want to have an agreement. And i think theres been a true change. This morning president rohani showed himself to be opening to this meeting happening and President Trump has been saying for weeks hes been demanding and being tough and putting forward sanctions but im ready to have a meeting to make a deal. I think were making progress. I want this meeting to happen and i want there to be an agreement between the United States and iran and france will play the role that its meant to play together with the United Kingdom, with germany and all of the other Signatory Powers and the permanent members of the security council. Iran is a country thats not the same country it was two and a half years ago when i came into office. Iran was the number one state of terror throughout the world. There were 18 sites of confliction
with the belmont stakes just a week from today, news that iconic horse racing venue churchill downs is suspending racing after several mysterious horse deaths days before the last kentucky derby. cb cotton is tracking the latest developments and she has them. hey, cb, what s going on? hi, griff. as the sports new oversight authority tries to get to the bottom of the bout of horse deaths at churchill downs, the famed race track plans to move the spring meet in the meantime. ever since 12 horses have died at churchill downs april 27th to may 27th, the company has faced mounting pressure from federal regulators churchill downs release add statement, while investigations have not indicated any service issues or factors or patterns even linked to the deaths, the company has still decide today relocate its spring meet to conduct a quote, top to bottom review. races for the reminder of the
centers up next, news about eyes in the sky. this time drones above the southern border and they do not belong to the u.s. we will take you there. first, beyond our borders tonight, tens of thousands of israelis protest outside the parliament building as prime minister benjamin netanyahu s government announce as plan to overhaul the legal system. the proposed have weeks of demonstrations dries of protest from influential business leaders and former military men and even prompt add statement of concern from president biden. and this is a live look at london. one of the big stories there tonight. a small meteoroid enters the earth s atmosphere. lights up the sky. take a look at that above the english channel creating a stunning shooting star effect. the international meter your organization said the object would have entered the atmosphere french coast burning you have before reaching the surface. just some of the stories beyond
the prospect genuinely scared plea. i ve seen this world ruin peoples lives or try to ruin people s careers and seen how vicious they could be. she did stress that passantino never explicitly told her to lie. hutchinson said her breaking point with passantino came in june when he advised her not to speak to the committee anymore, risking contempt is a small risk but running to the right is better for you. hutchinson eventually hired another lawyer before her blockbuster testimony for the committee, of course, we know, proved some of the most damning testimony against the former president. cnn reached out to passantino for comment an hutchinson s interview and provide add statement earlier to cnn this week saying he was ethical when presenting hutchinson and said he believed her initial round of testimony to the committee was truthful and that she was being cooperative s in a statement said i believe ms. hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the committee