attorney general ken paxton. what is behind it and what it would take to officially remove him from office is next. also, deal or no deal. key negotiators say progress is being made, but with no deal on the table yet, and lawmakers leaving washington, what is being done right now to prevent a massive default in as littles as six days. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. that extraordinary move out of texas where just yesterday a republican led house investigative committee voted to bring articles of impeachment against attorney general ken paxton. and guad venegas is joining me. tell us about the allegations and what comes next. the investigative committee decided to move forward with the 20 articles impeachment and it will go to the full chamber of the house where 149 members will vote. if they decide to move forward, paxton will be suspended, he will have to wait for the process to then go to the is that the. governor abbott would have to appoint
accounts down. they took down pages. other things on instagram they saw as well as part of a vast and coordinated conspiracy. people associated with chinese law enforcement. they were basically trying to spread chinese government talking points about the united states, western government, covid. all of the things that are sort of hot button issues for beijing. these accounts were just flooding that out in a huge way into all of these different internet vehicles to get the government s word out there. so given the just huge number of documents and messages sent out there, is there a sense of how many people the campaign reached or how effective it was? well, that s what s so interesting about this because the sense that the meta analysts have is that this was not as effective as you might think given the vast size of this. and that s because it was done sort of in a pretty rough way. they didn t really try to hide their tracks. in some cases, it looks like they bought a lot of faceb
137 people. bret? jonathan, thank you. we have new information tonight about the effort to fight disinformation campaigns coming from china and russia. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. facebook parent company meta says it s uncovered one of the largest known disinformation operations from china designed to white wash beijing s human rights record and another large disinformation campaign from russia to turn americans and europeans against ukraine. according to met tax for the first time ever, the company was able to attribute the massive chinese disinformation campaign to individuals associated with chinese law enforcement. it operates across more than 50 different platforms and services. facebook, youtube, twitter, tiktok, reddit, cora, pinterest, you could go on and on what it s doing is posting cartoons in the videos praise china and criticize anybody who criticizes the chinese government.
chinese minister, who just arrived in washington. and according to the commerce department they did discuss concerns including the fact that chinese law enforcement had been entering and searching american companies based in china, some being charged with espionage on suspicion espionage and it is becoming a real problem according to the american chamber of commerce in china who has talked to our colleague janis mackey frayer. and american companies are beginning to be very concerned about it. so that was definitely discussed. today they are going to detroit along with the u.s. trade representative and they will be meeting with other apa krflt members. and this was hopefully an a reopening to secretary blinken s trip, getting that call that the president said back in again was