the shooting. david? trevor, thank you. now to the white house. the biden administration is taking action against china. a diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics. china already responding tonight and what will this mean for us corres ohise reporter: calling out china for human rights abuses, the white house today declared neither president biden or any other american official will travel to the beijing winter games. a diplomatic boycott. we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. reporter: american athletes can still compete in february. but the snub sends a strong political message and is a direct response to beijing s crackdown on pro-democracy and free speech activists in hong kong, and abuses against uighur muslims. it s the first time americans have boycotted an olympics since 1980, when president jimmy carter refused to send a delegation to the moscow games in protest of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. but carter kept american