united states and one of the greatest writable china saying it sees any potential of this caliber of a violation of the united states promised to stay out of taiwan. the white house is reportedly working to quietly dissuade policies and taiwan, its health, racing for the fallout. residents of the island nation earlier this week practicing for the worse. if the threats escalates to an 11 attack. beijing has issued several warnings this week promising consequences and strong action. the latest coming during a phone call between president biden and his chinese counterpart yesterday during the call which lasted more than two hours. chinese president xi reportedly agreed a face-to-face meeting with president biden but also cautions that folks, those who play with fire will perish by it. it is hoped the u.s. will be clear about this. guy, your top thoughts. guy: this week to big stories one from cnn in the wall street journal about chinese espionage efforts in the united states
her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena to testify and avoiding us as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader mccarthy is seeking to cast doubt on miss hutchinson s testimony and the work of the committee. this is just the continuation. they re obsessed with trump and this is all they want to do, but this here say would never be allowed in the court of law. we should point out, nothing would be here say if mr. meadows or pat cipollone would testify under oath. all they need to do is tell the truth. say what they said. then everything would be clear. hutchinson is also being attacked be i the former president himself. here s some of what he told news max yesterday for an interview that aired today. this lady yesterday, there s something wrong with her
we begin tonight with the effort to discredit cassidy hutchinson s testimony before the house january 6th select committee and effort to destroy the credibility of a 26-year-old woman who had the courage to do what the former white house counsel and president s own chief of staff do not have to courage to do. two days after telling the committee that the former president of the united states sent a mob of people, some of who he knew to be armed to the capitol, she is being attacked by the president and his defenders. men like jim jordan whose republican members are attacking her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like her former boss, then chief of staff mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena and testify and avoiding us, as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is seeking to cast d
subpoenaed to the grand jury two people from the white house counsel s office including the white house counsel himself, but what is standing in the way of getting all of the information that prosecutors want are claims that donald trump is trying to make about executive privilege where he s trying to protect statements that were made to him or that he said on these crucial days that are being investigated. so those claims of executive privilege, that s potentially leading to a court fight where the justice department will try to get access to those statements through these witnesses and that s what these talks are about, lining up the justice department team and trump s team, talking to one another, potentially they could be pitted against each other if this does go to court, but the big picture here is that criminal prosecutors right now are definitely interested in doing fact-finding and locking down what they can about what was said in the white house either by trump or t
we re going to start at the top and clean house. parents of the uvalde school shooting victims are vowing change following the release of that report into the massacre. their demands and what we re learning about the fate of the district s police chief. and mother nature is cranking up the heat. where we could see dozens of heat records and when things might start to cool down . it is saturday, july 23rd. thank you so much for waking up with us. great to be back with you, amara. great to be with you, alex. we begin this morning with the latest from the fallout of the january 6th committee hearing. they gave a minute-by-minute account of president trump s refusal to call off everyone. lifelong republicans outlined how for 187 minutes then president trump watched televised coverage of the carnage of capitol hill while refusing pleas from everyone around him to call an end to violence. we saw and heard new disturbing video and audio that showed the danger that was fa