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this as new york police are now increasing courthouse security just ahead of a potential trump indictment. also tonight, trumps top gop allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the new york d.a. whos investigating him. trumps legal peril and the political fallout looming over a major gathering of house republicans. and a high stakes handshake, chinas president xi jinping ven v strengthens his alliance with vladimir putin, praising him as a dear friend as the russian ...

from dublin. hi, peter. >> dana, we have been told today on the record by a white house official here in dublin the president biden is having the time of his life. that is not something you usually hear about the work trip. and a few minutes ago president biden down played the significance of these document getting leaked. >> president biden: there is a full blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and justice department and they are getting close. >> how concerned ...

and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did. and it came inside our territorial waters. >> will: so, what is this thing? is this another chinese balloon in the pentagon says they have no clue or they are just playing stupid. >> can you say definitively it was not a balloon? >> i dont at this point, considering the fact that were still assessing the object. i dont want to get into characterizing it. >> will: so, they ar...

legislature. >> holding hostage house of representatives is not an exercise in democracy. >> happy easter. >> president biden says he plans to run for re-election. >> i plan on running, al. i will either be rolling an egg or pushing them out. >> president biden says he wants to be six easter egg rolls thats beyond a second term. >> i quit my job to ride a horse. i will go from austin to seattle. i bought a horse on craigslist next couple weeks preparing him and myself for the great jou...

Political taint to it, you know, any way you spin it. >> look, i think its completely appropriate. i think a lot of people would expect us from an oversight standpoint, a judiciary standpoint to look into a politicized process. >> we dont think president trump broke the law at all, but i think the questions about this prosecutor have existed for some time. >> reporter: now, democrats are sharply criticizing this move saying this is a clear and blatant effort to interfere with an ongoing investig...

Criteria. then is that to say if it were at 60,000 feet it wouldnt be allowed or conversely if the chinese spy balloon was down where civilian a aircraft are it would have been shot down is that our only criteria or main criteria? it doesnt make any sense. and from an oversight standpoint from congress, were going to keep demanding answers. >> will: you know, congressman. i dont want to push you beyond the responsible limits of your immediate knowledge on this. im not going to ask you to specula...

Did the first time, why couldnt we then report back? its just, again, it begs more questions and i think the bigger question is why is the ccp doing this? right on the heels of its meeting with biden just before blinken was supposed to come. we were made to believe that there was going to be some kind of a reset. yet, these are in your face actions and, again, to the criteria. we allow one. biden says its no big deal. but, yet, it not only hovered over our icbm site it hovered over a stealth bom...

State-run networks. this is hard to believe. but its true. the f.b.i. still has yet to respond to the previous drop or drops of the twitter files. drop number seven showed the agency tried to bury the hunter biden laptop story. top republican an house oversight says dramatic action is now needed. >> one way to get the f.b.i. in front of the committee quickly is we arent giving you a penny until you come down here and explain to us what this task force was, why you told twitter to suppress the hu...

We have now learned quite a bit from whats happened? the mark meadows text messages, which i know you wont verify one way or the other, have been made public in many respects. some of the committee respects, other through unknown means. theyll be on the impact of the hearings. given that along the way, a lot of middle schools. >> chris, on things so. the information that has been released by the committee and the subpoenas and letters weve issued, things that have become not to the public in oth...

Servicemembers died as a result. usually when theres a catastrophic military failure or failure in general somebody resigns or stepped down. that hasnt happened in a situation. why is that? >> we dont know and thats a great question. every american deserves the answer. anytime theres been a mistake of that magnitude somebody has been held accountable, somebody in the military, somebody in the administration but in this instance president biden never took accountability, never held anyone account...