international rival is being tied to a number of major stories this evening. china is pushing back on a threat by u.s. officials that the social media site tiktok could be banned country wide if chinese investors do not sell their interest. there is also word american banks may have to reimburse companies in china for losses from the collapse of a major u.s. financial institution. allegations that several members of president biden s family received payments from a chinese energy company. we will take you to capitol hill. and new information about what china may be doing inside ukraine. we have fox team coverage tonight. jacqui heinrich at the white house with the tiktok story and the ukraine angle. chad pergram on capitol hill tells us about the chinese ties to silicon valley bank but we begin with senior national correspondent rich edson who has new information coming out of the hunter biden investigation. good evening, rich. rich: good evening, bret. the chairman james c
war with russia understand that supporters say we are providing weapons and money to ukraine to fight that battle. right. bret: but for the folks that say this takes it to a different level and then suddenly we are in a war with russia, a nuclear armed country, what do you say? i think it s a valid concern. we provided them himars. right? we provided them 155-millimeter artillery pieces pull himars up to the border with russia and start lobbing rounds into russian territory. that could be incredibly escalatory. fly combat missions into russia. we have assurances from ukraine they are not going to do. this let me tell you what we can t allow to happen. we can t allow russia to beat ukraine, to win this thing because i can guarantee you they are going to be looking to the next country. putin has said this himself. he wants to rebuild the soviet empire. i mean, we re going to make sure that they have the weapons and weapon systems they need to beat the russians and look at the level