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
hallie biden, the widow of beau biden, also was romantically involved with hunter biden after beau s death. the house oversight committee was able to obtain this information by seeking financial records from a business associate of hunter biden, his name is john robinson walker, he is someone who republicans have scrutinized for many years. we know that he did transfer around a million dollars to members of joe biden s family after he received $3 million from that chinese-based energy company. republicans say this raises questions about foreign influence and also whether biden s family members were using his name to try to make money, but the memo does not link these payments in any way to president joe biden. i want to be crystal clear about that. and the memo does not show that president joe biden while he was vice president used his position to either direct these payments or to try to enrich his own family members in any way, which republicans have said is the entire purpose of the