closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process. that is separate and apart from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually stormed the capitol and broke into the capitol. this is now has been and we have seen as aids were called in, what have you, the inter-sanctum. we don t get more inner sanctum than the white house counsel. right. we know, through testimony given to the january 6th committee, running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get the
also military analyst retired general mark hertling. and philip mudd. good evening gentlemen. appreciate you joining us. let s start with alex. what are you learning tonight about this mission and how it went down? well don, this was a remarkable and complex mission. we ve got a lot of the details from a senior administration official who spoke to reporters shortly before president biden spoke with the nation. now this was months in the making. it was back in april when president biden s first briefed on the fact that the war was believed to be, not just in afghanistan, but in the afghan capital of kabul. in that city. living there he was told that members, his wife, his daughter, his grandchildren. now the intelligence community believes that he never left the house. that it was only as family members who went out. that is wife and daughter use what this administration called a terrorism trade craft to make sure that they weren t tracked or detect it. now they failed on
China’s defense minister says the country is fully prepared to fight its enemies amid attempts by the United States to undermine its sovereignty and security in the region, citing a recent visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Chinese Taipei.
it. whatever official saying? well, don, officials here are furious. they are threatening serious consequences. they say that this visit would be a direct challenge to china sovereignty, china s military is also saying that it won t,, quote sit idly by if she goes. pelosi is in the line of succession to the presidency. and, for beijing s perspective, this is essentially them supporting independents, which is a clear line for beijing. , not the kind of rhetoric we re hearing from china, we have for this language before when it comes to taiwan. but, this time around, the timing is sensitive. it is provocative. we are just months away from a key political beating when she jinping is expected to see an unprecedented third term. he cannot afford to look weak at this moment. and, we are already seeing the show of military force and propaganda videos with the message to prepare for more. there have also been several recent military drills, including, just a speck weekend, around the island