hear in the next few minutes? reporter: they are walking into the room where they will have this bilateral meeting, this is at a hotel here in hiroshima. the president there shaking the prime minister s hand. and this is real an important moment. u.s. officials say that they view prime the prime minister a political ally in the surprising role that he has taken over the war in ukraine and applying sanctions on russia that haven t been a guarantee. so you hear a lot from american officials how pleased they are at how strong the relationship has become. this summit only takes place every seven years so i think that you will see china playing a significant role. of course president biden wants the leaders to coalesce to counter beijing s military and economic aggressions. and you have seen that the backdrop is quite significant. that hasn t always been easy. there are significant differences in how they want to approach china. and so heading out of the summit president biden w
weather. he was expected to trot out his own endorsements during that event. alexis mcadams is live in sioux city, iowa force. good evening from iowa but this is a redid expect to see former president donald trump headline with they said was going to be a big rally that was sold out with thousands of people bring medicine one of the case but we did catch up with florida governor desantis. i had a chance to talk with him about what he says is a mess right now from the white house. specifically our southern border, watch. anything you want to say about the southern border what you re skiing out there? it is a disaster. it is a man made disaster that policies pretty obvious they re going to continue to about things happens because they re not going to change. the border should just be shut down. that is what you do. if this were like world war ii era they would ve shut this down in 48 hours. it s a country this not getting things done anymore and that something we are goin
in the faulkner focus. today s hearing comes after the twitter files exposed execs conversations around the hunter biden laptop story and the biden family business dealings. lawmakers looking to those witnesses, among them twitter s former deputy general counsel james baker to explain how the true story on hunter biden s laptop was censored by social mead and dismissed by media outlets including the new york times and washington post as disinformation. the republican and democrat leaders of the committee are already clashing from the jump. america witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies and intelligence community to suppress and delegitimize the existence of hunter biden s laptop and its contents. now mainstream media outlets have verified the laptop. the damage has been done. silly does not begin to capture this obsession. the conspiracy theory have gotten what they want, an apology. what more do they want 57bd why does congress have to be involv
underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say that
depositors president biden in remarks this morning addressing the moves by his administration america s going to have confidence that the banking system is safe your deposits will be there when you need them. i instructed my team to act quickly to protect these interests. no losses will be born by the taxpayers. i ll break it down with larry summers. the president s heading to san diego this hour with meetings where the british prime minister and australia s leader, highlighting the sale of nuclear submarines to our allies to counter china s indo-pacific power. and donald trump heading to iowa today following the footsteps there with likely challenger, ron desantis and days after his former vice president, mike pence, made his most critical comments yet over trump s role on january 6th. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington depositors at the failed bank breathing a sigh of relief after the u.s. government led by the treasury department, federal reserve,