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jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. >> hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we're learning that they're hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of ...

Waters pending an environmental review. >> we're going to start to properly manage lands and waterways. >> in april of last year, the interior department finished the review and announced reformed leasing procedures. royalty rates for the portion from oil and gas sales that companies pay to the government rose from 12.5% to 18.75. a 50% increase. the land nominated for drilling by the oil and gas industry was reduced by 80%. >> we all pay 50% more for 80% less. i think this is them trying to thread the needle, split the hair saying okay we are going to go ahead with a leasing program. we are n...

Pricey drum sticks and picture frames are not going over well here in d.c here is florida republican john micah. >> i know this sounds almost unbelievable, but to have this kind of waste reported when we're one way running trillions of dollars of deficit makes absolutely everyone's blood boil. >> gsa officials say they're concerned and turned the matter over to their inspector general to launch an investigation as soon as they discovered it. >> shep: we reported they will be leasing space in the new one world trade center in manhattan and it turns out somebody forget to tell that to congress. ...