jinping. they are trial stabilize the two super powers secretary blinken, we are following that meeting this morning, former president trump and his attorneys ordered not to disclose evidence in the mar-a-lago classified documents case members of his administration ramp up their criticism. do you believe he lied to the justice department do i personally believe it? yes. he constantly engaged in reckless conduct. ukraine making gains in its counteroffensive against russia, recapturing a village in the southeast on sunday. carrying out a strike on rusch s ammunition depot deep behind enemy lines this morning, an increasing tensions between the u.s. and china. secretary of state antony blinken became the highest ranking official in the biden administration to visit that country. he met with china s president xi jinping for 35 minutes and had an hour s long talk with china s top diplomats. the u.s. is describing the meeting candid and constructive and the china foreig
us from california. are you hearing anything about how this meeting went, the meeting started obviously with reasonably optimistic statements and smiles by both leaders. reporter: it did. it felt like it started on a positive tone, jack. i m a bit surprised that it went just a little over two hours as i look at the clock, wrapped up around 1:35 local time. we all saw that long list of issues between the two countries, and you expected it to go over the four hours allotted. they are still together. it s moved on now to a second portion of this, and that s essentially a working lunch. so they will dine together and continue discussions. you mentioned that optimistic tone starting things off. we expected that from joe biden. there s a bit more transparency on the u.s. side going into this. they wanted to cool those tensions. it s another issue off his plate. if he can stabilize things between the u.s. and china. but what surprised me is president xi in his opening remarks, he
understanding with regard to increasing academic exchanges, as well as more flights to and from china, and the foreign minister is coming to the u.s., which is all a good thing. where i was a little disappointed was the failure to establish a military-to-military communications channel which is extremely important for the reasons that tony blinken laid out, but hopefully will increase those communications in the days and weeks to come as well. you know, it s odd when you think of just how difficult relations are between china and the united states. i mean, just recently, you know, china wouldn t answer the secretary of defense s call. i m just wondering, congressman, how do you see that relationship with china that has a very pro active policy of spy balloon over the u.s. and spy balloon over latin america and it flew over colombia.
to military communications channel. the others are under review. if we could get perhaps an understanding of what some of measures are that would be great. a very good speech july 22 on iran policy at the reagan library. to substitute the word out iran out and substitute in the word north korea, would your speech still describe the state of affairs in north korea? boy, it was a long speech, senator. basically i think in large part it would be consistent. there is a difference. in terms of their operational capacity for nuclear program but the nature of the two regimes is similar. i m out of time, mr. chairman. thank you. thank you. i m going to use a little bit of my time. you obviously acquit yourself very well and those of us who know you and work with you have
made to the president? we haven t we seen any designations recently? i don t have an answer. i d like to have one. has south korea made additional requests to the united states for sanctions relief? as relates to additional activities with north korea. i think the request that south korea has made are public and have occurred through the committee up at the united nations. so i think the list of things that the south koreans are requesting in terms of either making sure that their activity is consistent with the sanctions regime. there s humanitarian exceptions. is the us is considering any of them? we re reviewing each of the requests. we approved one. to south korea. yes. we approved one that had to do with a military to military communications channel. others are under review i. if we ll get an understanding