segment on the infamous chinese spy balloon. gillian: well, attorney general merrick garland has made a significant decision now about the investigation into president biden s son. house republicans are pressuring garland to make multiple people involved in the investigation available for transcribed interviews. so far, garland is not giving in. david spunt joins us from the justice department tonight hi, david. hi, gillian, good evening. we are waiting to hear what that decision is from the attorney general. i m told a decision has been made. there are still some discussions going on and a response is being worked on. perhaps we are waiting for that to get over to capitol hill before we can actually see a copy of that written response to a request for the attorney general to make roughly a dozen people connected to the hunter biden probe available for transcribed interviews. house judiciary chairman jim jordan oversight chair james comer and ways and means chair jason
want an intelligence damage assessment. and some republicans are digging into a new tactic to question whether the documents are actually that sensitive. we re on top of all of the latest. plus, a federal judge ruled that republican senator lindsey graham must testify in georgia s investigation of trump s efforts to overturn the election. graham s attorney has asked the judge to quash his subpoena. we will have more on that. and barricades lining the headquarters here in washington, d.c. as as the agency faces an unprecedented number of threats. let s begin with the mar-a-lago search, cnn s caitlin poll la polantz about all over this. that s right, alex, there may have been different motivations but bipartisan calls for transparency for people on the hill to really learn more about why the search was needed and what was found in those boxes removed from mar-a-lago. so, over the weekend, we had two house chairs, committee chairs, both democrats asking the director of nati
going to be a band-aid and i think the studios and others are going to turn to a.i. simply because it is a source for frankly, you know, enormous creativity if you use it right. gillian: so, related to that olivia i m going to go to you since you are wearing pink. barbie movie. critics are blasting release of the film because it uses a map pull it up on the screen so folks at home can see it. essentially a piece of chinese propaganda that makes it look like china has full control over the south china sea which is disputed territory. and this is according to the new york times. tribunal ruled china had no legal basis over claims for territory. bay jinx has yet to concede the ruling. this is instance critics say of hollywood caving to the communist party s demands. vietnam has blocked it from even playing in their country just because of that one short
continued on monday. the eastern command leader announced it had conducted a new round of joint drills and combat patrols in the air in the sea around taiwan saying, quote, the exercises are a solemn response to political plays by the u.s. and taiwan that are undermining the peace and stability of the taiwan strait. a spokesman for china s embassy in the united states addressed the visit on twitter saying china firmly opposes any official ties between the u.s. and taiwan. and that the u.s. should bear all the consequences guide the worsening tensions between bay jinx and tie pawn as a result of the high level visits. senator joseph who thanked senator markey for their visit and once again reiterated that china doesn t get to dictate how taiwan makes its friends, alex. the ambassador now calling this provoking. so they are responding on a number of different fronts. blake essig in taiwan, thank you