jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
law enforcement agencies trying to coordinate so they can try to figure out what happened in this investigation and why, gillian. gillian: all right. charles warm front son in tate county tonight. thank you. all five former memphis cops charged with the murder of tyre nickels have pled not guilty. authorities say the men are the same officers scene on camera beating nichols after that now infamous traffic stop back in january. the officers are also charged with aggravated assault. aggravated kidnapping. official misconduct and official oppression. they are all as of this hour out on bail. gillian: well, the defense of a prominent south carolina attorney accused of killing his wife and son is now presenting its case correspondent jonathan serrie has tonight s update. good evening, jonathan. good evening, gillian. the prosecution rested today after presenting the jury with a detailed timeline of alec murdaugh s movements the day his