earlier as the house ways and means committee releases stunning testimony from two agents. they say the lead prosecutor overseeing hunter biden s investigation was not actually in charge of the outcome, thanks to meddling from the justice department, despite attorney general merrick garland insisting it s not true. mr. weiss had more authority than a special counsel would have had, as complete he had and has complete authority to bring a case anywhere he wants in his discretion. we will get reaction from republican 2024 presidential candidate will hurd, he s joining us in just a moment. david spunt, you got to ask a.g. garland about all of this today. what did he say to you? aishah, about 90 minutes ago and the attorney general has remained consistent over the past two years saying that david weiss has fully been in control of the hunter biden investigation. now, there s a notion out there that david weiss was told not to bring charges against hunter biden last year, ac
with china and what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? i don t have a call to talk about today. let me again, level set here, and i know i m running close on time, sorry, but the president met with president xi at bali at g20, and most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that and wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of these communication vehicles and venues back on track, whether it s climate change or military to military. we were looking forward to doing that, and then the chinese decided to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states and would not be appropriate to have that meeting. when are those discussions going to get back on the calendar, i couldn t tell you. as secretary blinken has said, it will happen at the appropriate time. now is not that ti
base located just 90 miles off the u.s. coast. scary stuff. historian at harvard kennedy school of government and an author, calder, thanks for joining us. i want to pull up a full screen for folks at home that may not realize just all the different ways that china is allegedly spying on us. spy base in cuba as i mentioned, the cranes at u.s. ports, the sky craft, cell towers, land purchases, on and on, and i want to ask you, i don t know what we are doing to them, but are we losing the intelligence war? well, it s great to be with you. thanks for having me on. i m not able to say whether we are losing the intelligence war. the activities of the u.s. intelligence community and allies are secret and we shouldn t know about them, i don t know about them. we ll know about them in the future one day when the archives
effort to salvage the sky craft. the recovery here in south carolina is different than the recovery operations underway for the three unidentified objects shot down over the weekend. this is larger, had maneuverable capabilities, and the u.s. knows this is a high altitude spy aircraft. kirby said the tech was not new, listen. we assessed that at this time these balloons from provided limited additive capabilities to the prc other intelligence platforms used over the united states. but in the future, if the prc continues to advance this technology, it certainly could become more valuable to them. defense officials last night said they adjusted norad s radar