the u.s. supreme court. we re following the protests and the stakes as the nine justices weigh challenges to president biden s loan forgiveness program. and fox news is facing even more scrutiny and questions tonight after the chairman rupert murdock admitted under oath that some of the network s hosts endorsed lies about the 2020 presidential election. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. tonight congress is putting the spotlight on deteriorating u.s. relations with china and the growing threat that the communist regime poses to the united states. the first hearing of the new house select committee on china begins in the next hour. let s bring in cnn s jessica dean. she s up on capitol hill for us. also let s bring in cnn s david culver who has reported from china for years. jessica, i ll start with you. tell us what to expect at tonight s hearing. reporter: wolf, this is the first prime
forth and i misread your tex [laughter] i thought i was gonna have you on the top of the show and the you are you crossed on the top of my show and i was lik sending everyone on a while it was chase. but it s wonderful to see you. no or you thought i was gonna be on with you an hour ago, just pop up roundly o your show uninvited? no, i was having you on but then i realized afterwards tha i d screw that up and heads an a bunch of embarrassing emails telling people to stand down having revere the text you sen me so it s wonderful to see you here on this very importan day. thank you, chris. hey, and thank you for askin me to be here, i m here unde weird circumstances. i did my own makeup which is hilarious. so i look like we ve all bee talking about nicks nixon an actually here to remind us o the ghost of nixon nixon it s 1960. you do everything including your makeup. before you go, let me jus ask you, chris, because you ve been asking a lot of questions this hour and,
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here s another. quote, his wife jill is looking lovely tonight in a beautiful purple dress. now if you don t know who said this, don t worry about. the answer is really very unlikely. those were both reviews from former president donald trump. and as much as trump also ranted about biden s speech, even he had to admit that last night was a strong night for president biden. not only did biden lay out a vision for how democrats want to change the country but he managed to sort of trick republicans into agreeing with him. there were a few of those moments, but the most notable one was this. instead of making the wealthy pay all pay their fe fair share, some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. let me give you. anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i ll give you a copy. i ll give you a copy of the proposal. that means congress doesn t vote as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is also off the books n
all a very good and safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ow i am going to read some reviews of president biden s state of the union last night, and i want you to try and against the source. quote, look, he worked hard tonight, he put into words what he felt and he ended the evening far stronger than he began. give him credit for that. here s another. quote, his wife jill is looking lovely tonight in a beautiful purple dress. now if you don t know who said this, don t worry about. the answer is really very unlikely. those were both reviews from former president donald trump. and as much as trump also ranted about biden s speech, even he had to admit that last night was a strong night for president biden. not only did biden lay out a vision for how democrats want to change the country but he managed to sort of trick republicans into agreeing with him. there were a few of t