welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
yes! yes! i know! all right, all right. stop it, stop it. happy thursday everyone. you know it seems silly now but once upon a time america trusted anthony fauci. during the pandemic we were all scared and confused. dr. fauci was a comforting voice of calm and reason. some believed a man of his stature might even lead them to a pot of gold. but according to his testimony this week before the official select subcommittee on the covid pendant pandemic the dwarf known as dock copped to the following admissions. the 6-foot social distancing rule had no basis in science. the lab leak isn t just a conspiracy theory. vaccine mandate and travel bands were a mistake. and that s after previously saying the lockdowns weren t his fault. so what exactly did he get right? that the media will believe anything if it comes from a toadstool in a lab coat? kudos to chairman brad for holding the tiny hooves to the fire and refraining from throwing him out a window. let s start with the social di
the only advantage to all of this is that instead of reversing what we did on the ira to save the planet or reversing what we did to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, you re wasting time. you look miserable. former house speaker nancy pelosi calls out republicans for their grievance politics and using the house floor to appease donald trump by censuring democrat adam schiff, who led the first impeachment against the former president. it comes as there s a growing riff between two of the most outspoken, far-right members of the house over how and when to impeach president biden. also ahead, we re learning more about the case special counsel jack smith is building against donald trump in the classified documents case. not looking good. plus, a man convicted of attacking a washington, d.c., police officer during the capitol riot shows a complete lack of remorse for his actions. we ll show you the officer s reaction to what happened in court yesterday. and we ll have
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in so many ways. as predicted, hp was just gifted a get out of jail free card by his own father s doj. nothing but a sweetheart deal that only other americans could dream up. what a shock. after a five-year investigation and mountains of material of evidence piled on top of each other, we have whistleblowers, eyewitness accounts. hunter was ever so gently slapped on the wrist with two misdemeanor tax violations for a missing irs deadline. we will talk about $3 million in taxes he did not pay. and a deferred gun charge that will be dismissed if hunter is a really good boy for the next few years. now former president trump actually called it a traffic ticket win in reality this is a plea deal. it is little more than a political stunt from a weaponize doj and nothing but a pathetic attempt to merely seem fair when they are anything but. keep in mind there are no violations or money laundering charges. there is no bribery indictments or drug charges. there is no prostitution or t