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the partnership between the u.s. and vietnam. white house correspondent peter doocy is with them on this trip. >> good afternoon. we've learned that president biden and china's xi who way back, have not communicating since november. that means that china flew a spy craft over the u.s., president biden ordered it shot down over the waters near south carolina, and still, nothing. and for president biden, it sounds like that's kind of a letdown. >> president biden, has president xi's absence impacted the summit? >> would be nice to have him here, but-- >> something the president really ...

The senator moves closer to entering the GOP primary

NPR devoting 8 full minutes for WaPo's Kessler to defend Tim Scott's family fact check and more round out today's top media headlines. NPR allowed the Washington Post's "fact-checker" Glenn Kessler eight minutes to defend his  widely criticized piece that questioned Sen. Tim Scott's, R-S.C. story about how his family made their way "from cotton to Congress." Kessler explained that Scott's origin story, like those of many politicians, sounded a little too "tidy," and so he decided it would make an "interesting" fact check. Kessler noted in his piece that Scott's humble beginnings wer...

Journalist Zaid Jilani Friday weighed in Friday on The Washington Post’s much-criticized fact-check article on Sen. Tim Scott The Post last week published an article fact-checking the story of Scott’s grandfather, Artis Ware, who the senator says dropped out of school at an early age to work on a cotton farm and never learned to read and write. Scott has also told the story of his great-great-grandfather, Lawrence Ware, who at one point owned 900 acres of land in South Carolina. The Post said that its research revealed “a more complex story than what Scott tells audiences,” but they u...

The South Carolina senator said he went from "Cotton to Congress in one lifetime," but his ancestors owned unusually large amounts of land.