china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the sky. it s actually a weather balloon that blew off course, the chinese said. but the pentagon s convinced it s more than that and that it s not the only one. we re seeing reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. the ballon burst plans for america s top diplomat antony blinken to travel to beijing for rare talks about covid, trade disputes and the security situation over taiwan, but mostly to calm sky high tensions. this crisis shows just how fragile re
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morning. jose diaz-balart picks up for us. i am jose diaz-balart and a very busy monday morning. right now, president biden is in new mexico for a crucial summit where he is expected to ask the mexican president for help cracking down on border crossing and drug cartel. this comes today after he was visiting the first time as president, u.s./mexico border. we are live on both sides of that border. new details this morning from brazil were ex-president violently stormed the capital and several government buildings claiming the election was stolen. back here in the u.s., on capitol hill after kevin mccarthy dramatically when after 15 rounds of the votes on his first major challenge after securing. plus this is a storybook. an opening kickoff for hamlin and this place is absolutely going wild. and exciting and to emotional week. buffalo bills damar hamlin live tweets the winning game six days after his terrifying collapse on the field. we begin this hour with
the wuhan lab in china for gain of function research. but yet dr. fauci hasn t come before congress in the house of representatives. the american people deserve answers on covid-19 and speaker kevin mccarthy has given the republican majority the tools necessary to make that possible. [applause] the democrats have spent the past six years investigating a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia. now let me say this loud and clear. the republicans will also investigate a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia as well as china. the american people have a lot of questions for dr. fauci. christopher ray, merrick garland, secretary mayorkas. we cannot ask those questions until we elect our speaker. under speaker pelosi was a full-time committee to harass the previous president, to advocate for wage, social issues which the oversight committee had absolutely no jurisdiction and committee totally uninterested in the american taxpayer. in a republican