collapsing and moving et cetera, et cetera, we had an incident that caused some confusion you might say, but the secretary blinken had a great trip to china. i expect to be meeting with president xi sometime in the future in the near term, and i don t think it s had any real consequence. what was your second question. as you raise broader issues of human rights and democracy, what s your message, including members of your own party who thinks your administration is overlooking a crack down on dissent in india. the prime minister and i had a good discussion about democratic values, and there s a that s the nature of our relationship. we re straightforward with each other, and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe the u.s./china relationship is not in the space it is, in the u.s. indian relationship is that there s an overwhelming respect for each other because we re both democracies, and it s a common democratic character of both of our cou
interviews as part of their investigation. it s that ethics committee investigation that could ultimately lead to santos leaving his seat in congress if the members of congress ultimately decide to go down that road, chris. and since we know the complications of that because there s such a thin majority that the speaker has. having said that, to say this is enormous and unnecessary attention, i can t imagine any member of congress facing a 13-count federal indictment that wouldn t get attention. exactly right. and especially since nothing santos has said has been proven to be true, not one thing. his whole resume, how he got into office, but more importantly as the names were released today, how he got his money. so important to recognize as a parent, his father and aunt actually didn t put up money, they just guaranteed it. they didn t have to show anything what they were guaranteeing it with. that s the million dollar question. no pun intended when it comes to
miserable, that s what i was avoiding and now you guys created this enormous, unnecessary attention to this, something that historically nobody really cares about, my whole thing around keeping the sureties secret was for their safety. reporter: well, you know, santos makes an argument here about his family members safety but neglects to point out that his financial history and where he gets his money from is a big part of the controversy that surrounds him. it s also a big part of the basis of the indictments that he s facing, the possible future indictments that could come down the road, so the idea of who would be behind the financing of keeping him out of jail is of great interest to the public, and chris, we should also point out today, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, the ethics committee released a statement saying that they are still very much investigating the accusations against him, they have issued dozens of subpoenas and have conducted