all of the political fallout to come. also this hour, florida federal judge aileen cannon sets a file date for the president s documents case as mr. trump gives his most detailed answer yet since last week s indictment about his handling of america s secrets in response to tough questions from fox news anchor bret baier. why not just hand them over then? because i had the boxes. i wanted to go through the boxes and get all of my personal things out. i didn t want to hand it over yet, and i was very busy as you ve sort of seen. yeah, you tell the aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers you had fully complied with the subpoena when you hadn t? but i had to take all of my thing out. these boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things. and john durham to the house intelligence committee on the 206-page report that s highly critical of the fbi s investigation into the russian interference in 2016, to the republican intelligence committee chairman,
call now 800-710-0020. today on inside politics, a plea deal and a firestorm near the white house wants to put the hunter biden criminal saga behind them. republicans say, there is no chance biden will get off that easy. , so much for that fog. the president said, xi jinping is a dictator. china calls it an absurd provocation. new reporting reveals justice samuel alito took an elaborate free trade with a billionaire who later had business with the supreme court. i am dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first, justice and a partisan divide over whether it has been served or severed. yesterday, doj revealed that hunter biden struck a plea deal . today, that deal is at the center of a big fight over justice department fairness and what should happen now. mr. biden s attorney calls the end result five years of diligent, fair work. this morning, the attorney general waiting for the first time saying, he left the biden matter entirely in the h
reminder. we ll continue to follow those stories. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. more reports of noises from the ocean. in that desperate search for the missing sub. the lead starts right now. sounds of hope in what is still being described as very much a search and rescue mission. sensors picking up noises from the ocean, could those be from the passengers? trapped on that titanic submersible that vanished during a deep sea expedition. and another u.s. supreme court justice defending another undisclosed luxury trip paid for by another billionaire. this time it is justice samuel alito who many met with someone before the court. alito tried to get ahead of the claims. and diplomacy undone. was all that work by antony blinken in beijing ruined when president biden called xi jinping a dictator in an off the cuff remark. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead. we need to have hope. that is the message from the u.s. coast gu
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after a strange of deadly storms barreled through the region, leaving at least six people dead and dozens of others injured we re in a texas community still picking up the pieces. later highway collapse pennsylvania s governor vowing to reopen that busy stretch of interstate 95 through philly within weeks let s begin with the breaking news out of china this morning. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken just departing beijing after that high-stakes meeting with china s president xi jinping. that included the secretary s crucial two-day visit aimed at stabilizing the spiraling relationship between the two countries, upended recently by the downing of a spy balloon and this tense encounter by a chinese fighter plane and a u.s. jet. plus the encounter with military ships. let s discuss with janis mackey frayer in beijing as well as nbc senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell standing by in washington we know the meeting between blinken and xi lasted about 35 minutes,