are classified briefings on capitol hill, top republicans demanding answers from the pentagon and director of national intelligence to fill in the blanks on this timeline. senators want to know when the spycraft was picked up on radar. since the odyssey across the united states, are countries are reporting in india, philippine, taiwan and u.s. territory of guam. the one that crashed off hawaii a month ago, other recent sightings in the u.s., washington post says it is part of chinese espionage arsenal. chinese have taken old technology and married it with modern communication and observation capabilities to glean intelligence on other nation s militaries, it is a massive effort. americans want to know why the spycraft was not shot down sooner, especially if there are explosives onboard. president biden defended his actions. president biden: i told the military to shoot it down when safe to do it, they said it was unsafe over land and they could learn a lot watch being it
for the first time since russia invaded ukraine china s president xi jinping will meet face-to-face with vladimir putin. so what could this mean for the war and also tensions between the u.s. and china? we are on it. plus a cnn exclusive, dozens of mar-a-lago staffers, members of trump s inner circle as well, have now been subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing probe of classified documents. find out who is on that list. and big banks to the rescue, 11 of them are now offering a $30 billion lifeline to one of the regional banks in danger of collapsing after this week s banking turmoil. we will be watching for reaction when the markets open in less than 30 minutes. we do begin this hour with next week s meeting in moscow between the russian president, putin, chinese president xi. cnn s senior international correspondent will ripley is with us. what more are we learning about the talks and what they re expected to focus on? reporter: the timing is certainly significant, it
he is their multiple family members, and there is going to end up being between four and seven. biden s who received significant amounts of money from communist china. the white house, pushing back saying instead of bizarrely attacking the president s family, perhaps house republicans should focus on working with the president to deliver results for american families are priorities, like lowering costs in strengthening healthcare on the hill were also healing hearing from congressman raskin of maryland , who says after four years of investigations by the senate and house republicans they haven t found anything for any government official. this investigation is far from over and there is a point to all this. the committee hopes to introduce legislation barring family members of politicians and elected officials from benefiting from some of those connected in office to the family members. that legislation is being worked out. we ll see if the president talks about this when re
gotten. they write hunter biden a private citizen with every right to pursue business as part of that joint venture hunter received his portion of good faith seed funds which he shared with his uncle james biden and hali biden with whom he was involved at the time in sharing expenses. the accounts so dramatically listed by representative comer belong to hunter, his uncle and haley, nobody else end quote. the implication is that you can t get this close to the president and the white house. your response. the public doesn t seem convinced of that. if you look at the fox news poll question last month 73% of americans say they think when it comes to hunter biden, china and ukraine, that either he did something illegally or unethically. of course, there is an appetite
team says that he pursued these business deals legitimately and he has a right as a private citizen to do that. i want to read you part of the statement from his legal team, they said, hunter biden, a private citizen with every right to pursue his own business every defers joined several business partners in seeking a joint venture with a privately owned legitimate energy company in china. as part of that joint venture hunter received his portion of good faith seed funds which he shared with his uncle james biden and hallie biden with whom he was involved with at the time and sharing expenses. so, again, republicans are digging into this issue, they are trying to make this a political liability for president joe biden, but so far they have not provided any evidence of wrongdoing. jim and erica. melanie, thanks for that important context. thanks very much. the battle for 2024 is heating up, south carolina playing host to several republican presidential candidates and potential conte