john demers, welcome to "newshour." let's bee general with the highest profi action by theist against chin inside the united states, that is the closure last week of thhoustononsulate. what made houston the hub for more aggressive, more sucessful chinese espionage that others. chinese acti >> as you indicate, nick, we didn't choose hoton at random among the chinese consulates it was at the forefront both of intellectual property , of participation in programs like e thousand talents program chinese have to help take u.s. intellectual property. also, of covert foreignti influence acti. and so, once the decision was made to close a consulate he in the u.s., houston was in many ways the obvious choice. >> schifrin: the overall question i think is, the u.s. has been accuse the chinese government of espionage for years. is the increased tempo it seems to be indictments assigned that the threat has increaseor the u.s. ability to find espionage and willingness to callut it increase? >> i think the theft has been steadi increas

international coalition and a network to combat china's aggressive stance on 5g networks, or yesterday john demerspreviously of boeing, announcing the indictment of two alleged chinese hackers who try to access covid-19 research in the united states and around the world. this is without question an escalation of u.s. foreign policy against china. i got to be candid, i think eli lake, that wrote a column about this on the bloomberg a couple of weeks ago, was spot on about how the change in u.s. policy, not just the trump administration, but democrats and republicans alike, really re-crafting how they deal with beijing. tom: what is the distinction between democrat and republican responses to tit for tat on consulate closings? kevin: alliances. when i talk to democrats, they say the united states is going to need to restore its footing in the world, especially with europe, in order to pressure the chinese to back off on some of their aggressive stance's. republicans would say it is with the aggressive, unpredictable uncertainty that has allowed the united states to continue to be a bit more unpredic

shery: assistant attorney general for national security, john demers.ll be joined by citigroup head of commodity and research. we will be asking why he is bullish on silver and gold. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: precious metals are soaring to multiyear highs on the back of consistent concerns over the coronavirus and the outlook for comics to menace worldwide. gold futures surging to a nine-year peak and silver also touching the highest since 2013. our next guest expects gold to continue to shine. the citigroup global head of commodities research, and morris, great to have you without spirit let me get started with gold. if you are bullish on gold, what is the best way to get exposure to the metal? are we talking etf's? are we talking about bullying? oullion? >> the best ways talking about an etf. it is great, but how do you store it? it's a financial instrument that provides your convenience by not having to deal with the physical material. shery: a few of the elements that seem to be boosting bouillon also seems to be helping silver. when it comes to s

hawley and i wrote to the assistant attorney general of the united states department of justice, john demers, asking for an investigation of zoom and tick-tock because of their reported, and repeated surveillance of united states citizens possible censorship, of participants on their platforms, and essentially suppression of rights and liberties by people in this country. and those reports of censorship and other abuses led us to ask for an investigation by the justice department, senator hawley and i and other members of congress have asked repeatedly to zoom and tick-tock asking them about their practices of collecting information about americans and about providing it to china, the government of china. they both failed to answer the basic questions. so we have turned to the united states government to protect the united states citizens. the is the administration aware of the cooperation between zoom and tick-tock in the company that of apparently owns it with the people's republic of china? and what do you plan to do about it? >> i think that picks up right where i was talking about the 5