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ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much dam...

>> every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that -- in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, thats 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware ...

>> when e joe biden went to penn, communist china paid millions of dollars to fund what he was doing. communist china, we also know, paid hunter biden and the biden family millions of dollars, and so theres a long history of communist china writing checks. the fact that university of delaware is trying to keep these documents secret, in fact, its said its not going to release any of them until two years after biden leaves public office, i think thats unacceptable. maria: and that was senator ted...

What we have here is a letter to newt gingrich, the former speaker of house, from the lawyers investigating this, and they are telling us that theres 1,850 boxes of the documents, enough to fill a tractor-trailer, and the 415 gigabytes of electronic records. but the university of delaware will not release who paid, who funded the arkansas k50eu68 -- archival maintenance of these documents. was it communist china? >> well, thats certainly a reasonable inference. it seems joe biden, certainly when...

Rejected the request waving executive privilege. trump has already sued to keep the first set of documents secret, but those could be handed over to the house panel as soon as november 12th. lets bring in cnns senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig. lawsuits dont get much bigger than this assuming that trump adds this second batch to his suit. what happens next. will this just languish in the courts. >> lets hope not, ana. lets hope the courts have learned their lessons fr...

The long awaited release would happen as planned, at the last minute the president blocked the release of thousands of records, bowing to pressure from the cia and fbi to keep the heavily redacted documents secret, writing, i have no choice but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nations security placing the bulk of the files under a six-month review. >> has a huge disappointment and total mess. you cant imagine a more disorderly release of this docu...

The creation of the fisa court at the end of the carter administration. watched it for many years when i was associate attorney. the court functions in a responsible way. the reality is, keeping these documents secret is enormously important to protecting the methods by which we find these people who are coming here to try to kill us. its enormously important to protect the identity of the people who are given the information to us. ive written i dont know, 100 of these things and its very hard ...

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