While President Biden faces pressure over his border policies,
also facing foreign policy challenges from several US adversaries ahead
of the election,
the president sending two of his top advisors to China
Now the president talked today with Chinese leader Xi Jinping
over the phone,
their first conversation since last November.
White House correspondent Peter Doocy has that part of the
story tonight.
Tiktok came up today. Yes,
that's the headline from today's Hour and 45 Minute Biden
XI chat,
their first since November. He made it clear to President
Xi that this was not about a ban
of the application, but rather our our interest in divestiture.
The Biden campaign remains on Tiktok as the Biden White
House pledges to sign a House passed bill that limits
it if the Democrat controlled Senate ever brings it for
a vote. We have said we support that bill.
We welcome that bill. The leaders also talked about fentanyl,
artificial intelligence and Ukraine, with Biden asking XI to stop
backing Russia's defense industrial base.
We're starting to act like vassals,
sort of pleading with China to do the right thing
or to act responsibly at home,
Biden World continues, assailing Trump as a threat to democracy.
Third party candidate RFK Junior thinks that's backwards.
Listen, I can make the argument
President Biden has a much worse threat to democracy.
He's weaponizing the federal agencies.
The Biden team is also condemning Trump's description of Biden
immigration policy as a Biden border bloodbath.
We have to denounce any any violent rhetoric that we
hear,
certainly from our leaders. But that word bloodbath was present
during
2020's Democratic primaries. During a private fundraiser.
I'm reading a direct quote from Joe Biden.
What we can't let happen is let this primary become
a negative bloodbath
he's talking about. He was talking about a group of
people.
A group of people.
That's what he's talking about.
What the president was talking about during the primary was
not to allow it to be the words and and
the primary and that election to become
-2 Different. Two different things.
They're not the same. The Biden White House is not
taking the bait.
Donald Trump wants the number one issue of this election
cycle to be the border.
But for the rest of this week,
they're telling U.S. President Biden plans to talk instead about
lowering health care costs and about rebuilding
Baltimore's Key Bridge instead. Brett.
Hey Peter, What is Hunter
Biden's team saying about the judge's decision not to dismiss
the tax charges case in California?
Brett, they're going to keep going.
Hunter's legal team says they are going to continue challenging
what they call the abnormal way.
The special counsel handled this investigation and charged this case.
But the Hunter Biden team went over
8IN motions to dismiss the tax charges.
So this case is heading for jury selection tentatively as
soon as June 20th.
Back to you,
Peter Ducey. Live on the North lawn,
Peter. Thanks.