and more shocking pictures coming out of vermont. rapid flood waters pounding that area following those massive storms. so much damage that the federal government has now officially declared a state of emergency there. so lots to get to, but we begin with the high stakes nato summit in lithuania. members making decisions that could change the course of the war in ukraine and that are already reshaping the alliance itself. this as the man with arguably the most at stake, ukrainian president zelenskyy here, you see him arriving ending speculation on whether he would even be invited or show up to this summit. well, he will meet, as we said, with president biden tomorrow less than three days after the president poured cold water on the idea of ukraine joining the transatlantic alliance. and ahead of his speech, where he ll make his case for his country s membership. zelenskyy tweeted earlier today uncertainty is weakness. nbc s monica alba is traveling with president biden in lit
the whatsapp messages date back to 2017. what they show is hunter biden writing to a chinese energy official saying i can make $5 million in salary from any law firm in america. if you think it s about money, it s not. the bidens are the best at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership. dana: republicans say the chairman is a chinese oil tycoon and that guy has since gone missing. meanwhile the i.r.s. agent who blew the whistle on the hunter biden tax investigation is talking. he said investigators gave hunter special treatment. bill: the agent is trying to expose corruption. because every taxpayer deserves to be treated fairly and it was my oath of office to make sure that happens. bill: new york post reporter john levine is here but first david spunt at the justice department. good morning. good morning to you both. several key points in this new interview between bret baier and gary shapley, the i.r.s. supervisor special agent who is the whis
on scene or close to being on scene. retired us navy captain armon joins us with the latest on search and rescue but first to matt finn on how crews are working to find the source of underwater noises that have been detectd the. matt good evening. good evening trace. the u.s. coast guard says a canadian surveillance plane picked up some type of underwater sounds yesterday and again today. but a coast guard captain says they cannot confirm reports that those sounds were happening in 30-minute intervals and also could not confirm those sounds were banging or tapping. the coast guard captain says the recordings were turned over to the u.s. navy for analysis and underwater robots were sent to the area where those sounds came from. an ocean science expert, who s assisting the coast guard said the noises sound like banging but could have come from various sources including a nearby ship. tonight some of the world s best data analysts are determining whether the sounds might have
what more do we know about his condition? reporter: well, at this point, jose, it appears the senate minority leader is still in the hospital, recovering from this fall. his office has not given us an update outside of what they told us shortly after the news broke of this situation that he was dealing with last night. of course, mcconnell is 81 years old, he had health scares in the past, heart surgery, he fell in 2019 and broke his shoulder. so he has dealt with health issues and gotten past them before. but in this situation, it is a new issue that has cropped up and we re still waiting to get a status check as to how long he could possibly be out, what caused him to fall during this dinner last night here in washington. and how long this could potentially impact him being away from the united states senate. all of that are the questions we re still contining to ask, jose. in other news from capitol hill, a top health official said a significant data breach exposed per
social media platform and is being held in boston ahead of his next court appearance on wednesday. lucas tomlinson s life at the white house with more, lucas wicks jon, president biden spoke about the leak before leaving ireland. he did not appear to concerned. i have instructed the department to make sure they get to the root of why he had access in the first place, number one. number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which all occurred. biden secretary of state spoke in vietnam. i have not heard anything that would affect our cooperation with allies and partners. now more of the classified information have been discovered washington post reporting taiwan is unlikely to stop a chinese invasion not only because of beijing missile superiority but china s use of civilian transport ships to hide a pending investigation to be too many for appearing american something to sink u.s. intelligence agencies were aware of up to four additional chinese spy balloons i