ukraine, and those of a russian spy base in cuba. mike gallagher of wisconsin joined me now, chairman of the house select committee on china. welcome, good to see you again. you wrote this week for my newspaper that the administration is pursuing zombie engagement. what do you mean? reporter: like a zombie in a horror movie, rising from the grave the biden administration is bringing back diplomatic and economic engagement from the dead. there are three risks to this approach, the first, even to get to the negotiating table the biden administration is slow rolling steps to defend ourselves from chinese coming is party aggression like ending expert licenses to while away, sanctioning officials engaged in genocide or transparency when it comes to the spy base in cuba. the second is because biden is afraid of provoking xi jinping and the relationship spiraling out of control, we incentivized the ccp to act, no matter what we do and the third and most basic concern is that it is
the sources into the matter verse the investigation is still officially open should any new information surface. the investigation into the bidens on capitol hill is still open. house oversight committee chairman james comer says he reviewed go unclassified fbi forms regarding a foreign national who claimed to have bribed then vice president joe biden. well, unfortunately, we saw a lot redactions in these documents. i would estimate that 55 to 60% of the two documents were redacted. it s just a complete waste of my time. it s another example of the fbi stalling, stonewalling, doing everything they can to obstruct the house oversight committee s example of biden bribery. oversight committee congressman jamie raskin said he also reviewed the fbi documents. claimed they are not related to any corruption allegations and he doesn t understand comer s accusations on hunter s plea deal committee republicans are using these documents to try to breathe new life into baseless all
rachel: good morning. that s a shot of downtown dallas on this father s day. will: 6:00 a.m. central time zone. pete: have you ever play that had music in the morning coming into the show? will: no, i need doll la doll l. ever heard that song? pete: yes. will: sing it? pete: i can t sing. rachel: happy father s day to both of you. pete: happy father s day to all the fathers out there and that s everyone, reach out to them today and tell them you love them. rachel: it s a special day. happy father s day, sean and my dad, who are both at my house right now. we re going to begin this hour with a fox news alert. secretary of state antony blinken in beijing on a rare trip to china as relation withs the u.s. continue to sour. pete: he ll spend the next two days meeting with top communist party officials and it s unclear if he ll sit down with xi jinping. will: alexandria hoff is live in washington dc with the latest. alexandria. reporter: good morning. senior state department off
the game a short time ago from comes former attorney general bill barr do you believe he lied to the justice department? but i personally believe? it yes. the legal theory about what you guys to take battle plans and sensitive national security information as his personal papers is absurd. it is just as wacky as a legal document they came up with for having the vice president unilaterally determine who won the election. obviously if these documents are not purely private. it is obvious. he is a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the countries. his personal gratification of his ego. our country cannot be a therapy session for a troubled man like this. indeed. he also says he expects major developments to some in the doj investigation into the events of january six. also new this, our democrats reacting to the trump arraignment and prospects for his upcoming trial. he goes into the bullying and bombastic mode where he tries to make the othe
and fingerprinted a federal court appearance captured by a sketch artist. you re seeing one such example. these moments you re looking at here are that which donald trump has blatantly tried to overshadow with this is own series of events and speeches and recent pr programming. well, we can all see how this case is different right now. the early reporting is focused on how it will follow a traditional trajectory. the new york times puts it that way. next up we have a date for trump codefendant walt nauta to enter his plea, june 27th. and then traditionally, the status conference hearings that you would see over a course of couple months, the government supplying evidence to the defense. and that material can then inform the defense lawyers strategies. trump s lawyers may try a kind of more serious investigation of this odd defense that trump has been publicly mounted that the de the classified documents he says were secretly or magically declassified before he left offic