segment on the infamous chinese spy balloon. gillian: well, attorney general merrick garland has made a significant decision now about the investigation into president biden s son. house republicans are pressuring garland to make multiple people involved in the investigation available for transcribed interviews. so far, garland is not giving in. david spunt joins us from the justice department tonight hi, david. hi, gillian, good evening. we are waiting to hear what that decision is from the attorney general. i m told a decision has been made. there are still some discussions going on and a response is being worked on. perhaps we are waiting for that to get over to capitol hill before we can actually see a copy of that written response to a request for the attorney general to make roughly a dozen people connected to the hunter biden probe available for transcribed interviews. house judiciary chairman jim jordan oversight chair james comer and ways and means chair jason
austin covering a lot of ground in his first press conference since his secret hospital admission, addressing the elephant in the room saying he did not handle his diagnosis and hospitalization correctly, and reiterated the u.s. plans to respond to a deadly attack on u.s. service members in jordan. i m john roberts in new york city, and look who is here today. just like magic. gillian: we managed to shake free of it. great to be with you, john. i m in for sandra smith, she s out on assignment. america reports . general austin s briefing comes as u.s. officials confirm iran manufactured the drone used to kill the three american service members and injure dozens more during sunday s strike. calling the attack on sleeping soldiers egregious and looking for a multi-tiered strike in retaliation. john: tensions ratcheting up near the red sea, united states taking out an anti-aircraft missile in yemen, raising concerns the group could be expanding its target zone. gillian:
special counsel jack smith is looking for in the classified documents probe. as with the $5 million defamation and sexual abuse judgment against donald trump, his own words are once again being used against him in a court of law. this time we re of course talking about that stunning february 2021 audio recording. donald trump bragging about a secret document with plans to attack iran at bedminster. to a writer working on a book, the discovery of that recording according to report from the wall street journal we discussed on this program last week, we know was a watershed moment that helped spur doj into pursuing a criminal case against the ex-president. days after his indictment on 37 felony counts, the ex-president claimed this. there was no document. that was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about iran and other things, and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn t have a document per se. there was nothing to declas
u.s. secretary of state is not a ceo, but what can we expect? our top diplomate, says he s not a politician, but the first visit by a u.s. secretary of state to beijing in five years, neil, and he spoke yesterday before taking that flight. sustained competition, with diplomacy and that s what the world expects of both the united states and china. now, neil, as you mentioned it s sort of like a take two of sorts, this trip. as blinken canceled his trip before that u.s. air force fighter jet shot down the massive 4,000 pound chinese spy balloon that flew across the united states and also, what other people call provocations. a chinese fighter jet across the nose of a u.s. air force surveillance plane in the south china sea used to spy on china. the fighter jet caused massive turbulence inside that air force rc-135. and also on the high seas, a china warship recently cut in front of an american guided missile destroyer in international waters, yes, not far from mainland ch
i m martha maccallum. this is the story. an appeal to the supreme court from the trump team could be imminent. the state could bar him from being on the ballot in the colorado primary. massive implications for the election and for the country really. these judges say that he incited an insurrection and he should be disqualified from office and therefore not allowed to be on the ballot. he has never been criminally charged with insurrection in this country. but president biden, he had his own opinion. watch. is trump an insurrectionist, sir? it s self-evident. you saw it all. whether the 14th amendment aplays, let the court make that decision. he supported an insurrection. no question about it. none, zero. martha: no question, none, zero on that issue from president biden. there s similar suits in several places in the country. the yellow and green on your screens, including really important swing states in the election. south carolina, wisconsin, nevada, michigan, ari