insistence they never looked at gain of function research is he lab. john roberts in washington. here we go again for another excitement-packed 60 minutes. sandra: you never know where it s going to go. kentucky senator rand paul is fired up and ready to react in just moments. but first this fox news alert. we currently have five service assets searching for the tie and we expect ten surface assets in the next 24/48 hours. smack dab in search and rescue. we need to have hope. i can t tell you what the noises are but we are searching where the noises are. john: update on the desperate search to find the missing crew aboard a submersible exploring the wreck of the titanic. sandra: they have heard more noises from the search area, but equipment may not make it there in time. john: admiral john mauger, it s good to have you on with us again. first of all, jamie frederick, captain in a press conference was talking about continuing to hear these noise from underwater. i
chinese spy balloon. the president reportedly told donors the reason why xi jinping got upset in terms of when i shot the balloon down with the two boxcars of spy equipment in it, he didn t know it was there. no, i m serious, what a great embarrassment for dictators when they didn t know what happened. now, china s foreign ministry today is calling biden s dictator comment irresponsible, extremely absurd and a political provocation. yesterday secretary blinken confirmed a leak that revealed china and cuba are indeed planning a new joint military training facility less than 100 miles from florida on cuba s northern coast. they could use to gather intelligence and even launch troops. this is something we are going to be monitoring very, very closely and we have been clear about that and we will protect our homeland, protect interests. gillian: the white house
company, then it is susceptible to a law in china that says if we want your data we can have it. you ve got to give it over. that s not a marketing question. that s a national security question. they are separate things but i don t think the united states is in position to say well, nobody really cares about national security so let s forget about the whole thing. china is putting a surveillance operation in cuba, 90 miles from where people go to chipotle in florida so we have to take it seriously. and if you have to find note platform, maybe that s what you have to do. sandra: dave s gourmet, a partnership with pink sauce. first watch. why did dave s gourmet partner with chef p? we saw the pink sauce go viral on tiktok along with everyone else. but with our 30 plus years of making sauces we offered expertise instead of criticism.
we cannot deny this has the attention of the key demographic out there. people out there spending money and eating at fast food restaurants. this is the los angeles review, brian, the journal headline keith lee helping a restaurant, how an influencer helps a vegas eatery become national news. before the tiktok, there were four employees, and now 25, plans to hire more. frank and sons is a national attraction, not uncommon to see tourists with suitcases lined up out front. they cannot deny it brings a lot of money in the door. you get eyeballs on the brand, whatever the frankadilla, whatever he came up with, it s like free market research that chipotle gets. it s crowd sourcing. i think it is a benefit of social media. generates ideas. you get more variety, the problem is if it s a chinese
national security team appearing to confirm this reporting. take a listen. china is trying to improve their global reach and influence and again, their global intelligence collection capabilities, it s not like we are not aware of it, monitoring it, and not like we haven t taken steps. gillian: the state department is busy briefing reporters right now. we have not had a chance to turn the tape around for you, but i can tell you they just said it comes as no surprise what the president said, and should come as no surprise the white house has differences with beijing and this is all sort of just business as usual and to be expected. we ll try to get you that clip asap. sandra: gillian turner live at the state department, thank you. john: one of the first covid-19 patients was a researcher at a u.s.-funded lab in wuhan, china. we are also learning that part of that funding came from a national institute of health