smith. this is america reports. a house panel voted yesterday to release testimony given by the two irs agents last month and both of these claim the president s son received preferential treatment during the department s investigation. but it s a whatsapp message in the hands of house lawmakers now that s raising some eyebrows and new questions today. john: members of the ways and committee say the 2017 text hunter biden appears to invoke his father s name while pressuring a chinese business associate for payment. it seems to contradict president biden s claims he s never been involved in his son s business dealings. aishah: jonathan turley will join us in a few minutes. john: jacqui heinrich is live on the white house lawn. all we know about it comes from house ways and means republicans who saw this presented to them by the whistleblower. we have not heard from anyone else about the authenticity of the text. the president, though, has long maintained as you said,
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but from early morning, people in and around the russian capital did report hearing explosions. i heard them too. at home, my windows shook from the force of the blasts. russia s defence ministry accused ukraine of carrying out the attack, but said that russia s military had downed all the drones. ukraine has denied having anything to do with this. president putin clearly doesn t believe that. translation: the kyiv regime has chosen the path of scaring l russia and russian citizens by launching strikes on residential buildings. this is a clear sign of its terrorist activity. as they flew towards moscow, the drones sparked disbelief. look at that , the man says. it s right above our house! one of the drones crashed into a high rise apartment block. another flew into this residential building. here is part of it on the ground. the explosives failed to detonate. the area was cordoned off and emergency services removed it. among the local residents, the sense of shock is palpa
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correspondent ben wright. good to see used to talk us through what is going on here. i see used to talk us through what is going on here- going on here. i think the main event today is going on here. i think the main event today is still going on here. i think the main event today is still the - going on here. i think the main event today is still the fact - going on here. i think the mainj event today is still the fact that the government are bringing a review against the inquiry, the covid 19 inquiry because it does not want to hand over unredacted whatsapp messages, diaries and it looks as demanded by inquiry route has been going on for weeks as baroness hallett gave the government till 4pm today to hand over the material but the government digging in and now wants it settled at the high court. it does not feel the remit of the inquiry stretches to secure the unredacted, unedited documents the baroness is asked for savannah will go off to the high court. separately bor