by democrats in a hearing that at times got fiery today democrats say he didn t prove anything at all as the country heard from the special counsel for the first time our findings were sobering. john durham appearing the first time in front of the house judiciary committee about his scathing 300 page report which found the fbi had no actual evidence of collusion when investigating links between russia and the 2016 trump campaign. i have had any number of fbi agents who have come to me and apologized for the manner in which that investigation was undertaken. but durham was met with a barrage of attacks from house democrats right out of the gate. you can hold yourself out as an objective department of justice official or as a partisan hack. the difference between your investigation and mr. mueller s was that mr. mueller actually found actual evidence of a crime. and multiple attempts by congressman adam schiff, who pushed the russia collusion theory to pin durham on
bret: serena williams in fact said she would lose two sets to tennis player andy murray without getting a game in five to six minutes. math and reading scores are declining again for u.s. students. the national center for education statistics says 13-year-olds lost another 4 points in reading and 9 points in mathematics compared to the last assessments administered in 2020. over the last decade reading points off 7 points math numbers down 14. the biden administration has missed a deadline to turn over information about the possible origins of the coves pandemic. a white house official saying it s personnel are working on declassification process. republicans are growing very impatient. here is white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. the white house is pointing to the director of national intelligence for missing sunday s deadline to release declassified information on covid origins required by the bipartisan bill biden signed into law in march. officials tell fox the dni s
boxcars full of spy equipment he didn t know it was there. no, i m serious. that s what great embarrassment for dictators when they didn t know what happened. that wasn t supposed to be going where it was. he got pushback from china about using the word dictators but what are your thoughts about that and how the administration has handled it? bret, president xi is the strongest, most powerful dictator that china has had in decades. trust me. there is no way he doesn t know what s going on all the time everywhere. it is incredibly naive for biden to think that and it makes me question his mental capacity that much more if he is going to sit there and think about that. that s why china thinks we are so weak. they lie to us all the time. you can never trust anything china says. the fact that president xi said that it was a great meeting tells me that blinken went in kind of hat in hand giving concessions. that s never what you want to do. i mean, what should have happened is blinken sho
bret: china is pushing back tonight on a comment made by president biden co-worker his chinese counter part and this spring s flying of a spy balloon over u.s. territory. this has critics in this country are charging that the biden administration has been too soft on china. correspondent gillian turner has both sides tonight from the state department. gillian: president biden apparently believes chinese president xi jinping is a dictator that revelation coming during a political fundraiser along with new disclosures about the infamous chinese spy balloon. when i shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it xi jinping didn t know it was there that s what is a great embarrassment for dictators when they didn t know what happened. the president often touts his close working relationship with xi. we know each other well. we are not old friends. it s just pure business. that relationship now on ice despite the white house declaring secretary blinken s beijin
comment calling it irresponsible. extremely absurd and a political provocation. the state department this afternoon doubled down. we won t hesitate to call out areas where we disagree or to be blunt and forthright about some of these differences. one of those areas that the president and the secretary have been clear about is the differences between democracies and autocracies and what they have. yesterday, secretary blinken confirmed leaked intelligence about china and cuba planning a new joint military training facility. less than 100 miles from florida on cuba s northern coast. a location china could use to gather intelligence and position troops. this is something we re going to be monitoring very, very closely and we have been very clear about that and we will protect our homeland. we will protect our interests. reporters here today asked the state department whether they agree with president biden s assessment that chinese president xi was kept in the dark about this spy