committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump s inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w kimberly guile so let s get right to cnn s sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we ve seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you ve been reading through donald trump jr. s transcripts. what are you finding in there? reporter: you know, this is obviously interesting because he s the former president s son, proximity to the former president and asking him about what was happening as the riot unfolded on january 6th and they re reading back text messages he exchanged with mark meadows. at one point don junior tells mark meadows, the former president trump, his dad has got to condemn this then says a
ministry of foreign affairs, basically saying all parties need to work together scientifically against the epidemic to ensure the safe movement of people between countries. now, of course, the irony isn t lost on anybody that china is the country which has really had one of the most stringent and long-lasting restrictions. this zero covid policy when it comes to the pandemic than any other country in the world. also we heard from the spokesperson of the foreign ministry that the covid situation on the whole remains predictable and under control. that doesn t tally with what we ve been seeing on the ground. our teams there and what we ve been hearing, also from some media within china itself, they have been pointing the hospitalizations are significant, that hospitals are under strain and even things as basic as fever medication is very difficult to come by, abby. predictable and under