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the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but he's the man to do it. chad, what's happening? >> reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost of pharmaceuticals cheaper. elizabeth mcdonough has a lot of sway in process. >> the closer you c...

Force in the world and they're invading already in a surreptitious way, the united states in order to do that. >> china is mounting a massive economic merchantilism around the world, in africa and the middle east as well and we in the country are under seeing from chinese espionage and it's multi-faceted. we've got the confucius institutes and opm and buying our agricultural land and especially the land near military bases. so, there's-- what we need from our administration from the biden administration, is an all of government approach where we incorporate the inintelligence community and the...

>> deputy assistant secretary george kent and an individual from the office of -- individual in inintelligence community. >> as you know the intelligence community has 17 different agencies. what agency was this individual from? >> if i could interject here. we don't need to use these proceedings -- >> it's my time. >> i know but we need to protect the whistleblower. >> using a tax- payer funded twitter account to attack the war veteran while he was testifying. and saying he had consrps about his judgment. they questioned vindman's loyalty to the united states. the president said this yesterda...

About this meeting. jared kushner and donald trump jr. this comes on the heels of numerous meetings undisclosed with the russians, not just with jared kushner and members of the trump family, but also individuals on his campaign. i think in and of itself not particularly overly problematic in a sort of series of events around this issue. i think it's troublesome for the trump administration that they keep having more and more information come out. why was this meeting taking place? it was fairly high level of jared kushner and the president's son was involved and why did we not hear about this...

I'm honored to appear before you today as the president's nominee to lead the central intelligence agent. i'm grateful to president obama for sending my name forward. thank you for your service to our nation and strong support for those who defend it. this includes the extraordinary men and women of the cia, and inintelligence community so many of whom like me call virginia home and call you our senator. i would the not be here today without the love and support of my wife kathy, my life partner and intelligence professionals has made numerous sacrifices over the yea years. >> would you pause ...