major develop moons, congress passed a bill giving 14.3 billion in aid to israel, but joe biden threatened to veto it because it does not include money for a cause that is already defeated sadly in ukraine. israeli prime minister netanyahu today says that nothing is going to stop them from going into gaza and getting the job done and now gaza city is surrounded. we re seeing explosions across the night sky. a live report from the ground later in the show. but first, loving china, hating us, the focus of tonight s angle. preparations for the date are underway. what is he going to wear? how long will the conversations last? who is better at small talk? the president is looking forward to meeting with president xi. will not get details about this meeting that is going to happen this month in san francisco. it will be a constructive meeting. laura: constructive for whom, jp morgan, goldman sachs? not the american people. xi does not meet with foreign leaders unless he s prepa
deck with us in studio. let s go to the white house where lucas tomlinson is standing by. the f.b.i. director providing the first public confirmation of the borough s classified assessment into the origins of covid. here is congressman jim banks. do you think there is a chance the wuhan lab was involved in bioweapons research? well, i think that we know for certain that the chinese military is involved in research into coronaviruss. china s foreign ministry responding to the energy department and f.b.i. director say the coronavirus most likely came from a lab leak certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative and stop smearing china and china has been criticized for not helping with the tracing. donald trump s national security advisor says china is now a bigger threat than the soviet
officials but we have not heard that before. as you mentioned this was on orders of president biden. right now in terms of the surveillance capability on this object is not clear right now. to put this all and some all up this is the fourth time in eight days the u.s. military has shot down an object over north america. it s a time in the last eight days. lucas a quick question. there is 15 seconds left we have a blind spot with talked about that in our radar we do not see these balloons coming until they are basically right here because there is no question top generals are saying they re not spotting them until they breach airspace. as part of the investigation where we not seeing these unsung they re basically upon us? lucas tomlinson is standing by at the white house the very colatest. we ll staytrit on this story. arthel and myself reporting. vitamins and minerals,
indonesia. so what will they talk about in this very big opportunity? lucas tomlinson is standing by at the white house with what to expect from this meeting. hi, lucas. hi, martha. the meeting takes place shortly after president xi was appointed to an unprecedented third term. here at the white house, david spunt asked karine jean-pierre if the president would bring up covid origins with the chinese president when they meet in indonesia. certainly we will share the conversation and what came up. the president has always been clear on getting to the bottom of covid and has been very clear in reports that we have put out on the origins of covid as well. martha: the sunia i have s top admiration warned china it would launch an invasion of china within months, martha. words echoed a few days ago by taiwan s president. some want to see the biden
talking to macron today. he ain t backing off. so we are either going to defeat him or he s going to win. we need to understand that. frankly doesn t care about yachts. when he gets done he ll take the billion dollars a day we are sending him and he can buy yachts for all of his oligarch friends and he doesn t care. we don t understand the russian mentality. it s a much tougher system than we are. laura: yeah, you bet. thank you for your expertise as always. great to see you. in lviv, ukraine, that s where lucas tomlinson is standing by with the latest at the nuclear power plant. lucas. laura, we just learned this been no change in the radiation levels from officials of the nuclear power plant in southern ukraine. none of the equipment including the six reactors have been affected by the damage. what is concerning is their ongoing hostilities. earlier tonight between russian