health leaders in the uk are warning that there will be a struggle to clear backlogs and improve emergency care unless industrial action by thousands of staff is brought to an end. hello and welcome. china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the sky. it s actually a weather balloon that blew off course, the chinese said. but the pentagon s convinced it s more than that and that it s not the only one. we re seeing reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. the ballon burst plans for america s top d
on vacation, this time ate in a very sunny tropical, lush destination. a full report straight ahead. but first, let s begin with joe biden s unyielding commitment co free speech. he loves the to free speech. he loves the first amendment. here is press secretaryre s p karine jean-pierre with more. takree a look at this.rine-j eahour. h support for free speechupport and free press is well documented. just twitter, as you know, is a private company and they will make their own decision. so content moderation. but our support again for free press and free speech has been well documented. and so i ll leave it there.il okay, that that s laughable.s obviously, in reality, the documents tell a dramatically different story and a new batch of internalerna twitter files published by david zweig show that the biden white house frequently attempted to strongen arm social media platform into censoring speech, especially surrounding covid-19. here s a quote, the biden teamte was very
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Laws that have been violated here. Not only did comey and his confederates use what they knew was a fact document, the dossier, it was being pushed by the overs, and Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson, they knew it was phony but they used it any way as an excuse to try to destroy trump, damage his candidacy, remove him from office after elected. In so doing they violated fbi regulations and importantly they perpetrated a fraud on the fisa court. Thats abuse of power, which is a felony. Its also perjury, because they swore for the veracity of the document when they presented if to the court and coverup since then is Obstruction Of Justice. There are a variety of crimes. I lay them all out in the book. You do it well. Sara ill go back to you. You know this christopher ste e steele, who is the spy who got information from russia, who got paid by hillary and the dnc in
the mueller campaign, sara makes a great point and the point is
A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. The mueller campaign, sara makes a great point and the point is there is nobody looking at this any way. Are we just engaging in an unnecessary effort . No, you know this is how cover ups work. The truth is slow to emerge. It takes a long time to do it. We know enough now that it was a says pool of corruption. Christopher steele who fabricated the dossier that drove the russia hoax, the collusion narrative, this is a guy who admitted in court documents, i dug them up out of a British Court proceeding, i put it in the book, he basically said that his document wasnt worth the paper it was written on. It was written on. Right. He said its unverifiable. Principally because it was based on Anonymous Sources and triple and quad drup hearsay. The fbi knew this. They didnt care. They wanted so much to stop donald trump that they were willing to break the law to do it to abuse their power
Dispute. Now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator with murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said im not ready to lift the aid. They had this Senator Johnson, he writes a tenpage letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. Its on page 6. I this is Senator Johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation, Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. He said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reactionnt here was adamant, vehe