soon, president biden will welcome south korea s president to the white house ahead of a critical meeting. biden and president yoon suk-yeol set to roll out a new plan to boost u.s. and south korean cooperation amid north korea s escalating threats. our correspondents are covering this meeting from washington to korea. cnn s arlette saenz is joining us from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny is in washington, d.c. for us and paula hancocks is live from seoul, south korea. let us start with arlette. can you tell us what is happening at this hour? we heard the band playing the last time we spoke to you not too long ago. what s going on there now? sarah, any minute now we are expecting south korean president yoon arriving at the white house setting off the pomp and circumstance that president biden is holding for him, but it also comes as the two leaders are set to announce a significant agreement when it comes to efforts to try to deter north korea s nuclear capabilit
slaughter houses and restaurants to pay debtses to smugglers and traffickers. today they will call a hotline to say they are being abused, neglected and trafficked. it is argued the u.s. has become a middle man in a child trafficking operation by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children. brooke singman has more on what we will see today. brooke: when child migrants are found, they are transported to health and human services. the volume of unaccompanied children at the southern border has surged over the past two years with 70,000 this fiscal year. today s whistleblower testimony is expected to reveal how the surge is leading to explosive growth in child labor and the biden administration is ignoring the warning signs. one witness, an hhs whistleblower will testify i thought i was placing children in loving homes and instead found children are being trafficked through network that begins with being smuggled to the u.s. border and the child is delivered to a sp
increasing inflation. well, it has the advantage of not only people being able to live longer and better and be able to perform their prescription drugs, but, guess what? it reduces the deficit $158 billion. [ applause ] don t forget that part to tell people. it s not just that you pay less for the drug. it means that the federal government isn t paying for the drugs for medicare. president joe biden in baltimore last night, debunking republican claims about the deficit and calling on democrats to remind americans what his administration has achieved over the past two years. meanwhile, on capitol hill, a hearing dominated by grievance politics, as attorney general merrick garland makes his first appearance before the new congress. he actually had insurrectionists. right. like, the guy with, like what is it, willie, the bird bone hands, like, doing the power to the people signal. the raised fist. that s right. raised fist of a bird. yeah. there it is. the
gain-of-function research, and that is where this thing most definitely came from. john: and explosive hearing taking place on capitol hill, the origins of the covid pandemic. confirms dr. anthony fauci tried to discredit the lab leak theory in the early stages of the pandemic and back to china s efforts to place the blame on a white market in wuhan. the virus that has killed millions of people worldwide. sandra: will congress use this testimony and newly uncovered emails to hold fauci on china accountable for not being transparent about how this pandemic began? house covid select committee chair brad wenstrup and senator tom cotton will weigh in coming up shortly. john: we begin, though, with growing calls to designate mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations following the killings of two americans in mexico. ali am john roberts in washingt, welcome center back. sandra: this is america reports. mexico s presence, it it s country has arrested a 24
a decision is a minute. but the 4% of the special grand jury seems to be doing some of the da s cards. speaking to five different media outlets, that includes msnbc news. georgia law does not allow members of the grand jury to discuss until deliberations. they are a lot to speak openly about other aspects of the case. she has hinted that accountability is inevitable. she revealed the names of witnesses who testified, claimed some witnesses were granted immunity. she also said jurors listened to the phone call between trump georgia secretary of state, you know, when trump asked him to find 11,578 votes. jurors also heard testimony from the fake electors scandal to return she even revealed the grand jury recommended indicting over a dozen people. when it comes to indictments, here s what she told nbc s grant alexander. there definitely are some names that you expect. did the grand jury recommend an indictment of former president trump? i am not going to speak an exact i