we will leave it there for now, marcus childress, former investigative counsel. much for joining us. -- thank you so much for joining us. u.s. top diplomat says washington and beijing should to their differences responsibly. they called for direct engagement as they arrived in beijing on the second day of his visit to china. he said the two countries must resolve their differences together before talks with senior chinese officials on issues such as russia and taiwan. all the tensions have eased between the nation since last year, disagreements on trade and security remain. our state department correspondent tom bateman is traveling with secretary blinken and file this report. tom: one of the main messages from sec. blinken will be about the war in ukraine. it is a warning really from the americans to the chinese, urging them to curb what the u.s. as is the export of machine tools, of microchips that they say russia is using to build weapons for its war in ukraine. they want the chinese to stop exporting those components. secretary blinken has called china the pr

also with us form january 6th committee investigator marcus childress. >> marcus, everybody is like we'ree. this is going to be jury selection. jury selection is probably, it's a little bit like watching onions on toast. right? it's hard enough to make you cry. the reality of it -- i'm serious. there's a process here. a lot of people think this is going to be play-by-play blow by blow and learn all this stuff about the jurors. walk us through this. >> the approach for me was to build credibility and start showing my theme and theory for the case. that headline was right. you can't win but you can definitely lose a trial. the questionnaires will make it more streamline in a way you can collect information and get data points on jurors to know who you want to fight for and who you want to have kicked off the jury. i think the media one was the most interesting one. where do you stay informed? how do you get your current events. where do you watch the news? for example, if i see somebody watches "the weekend," no, i can't strike them but maybe that's a witness i want to rehabilitate them. wh

. >> joining us now marcus childress former january 6th committee investigator and former federal prosecutor and senior writer for political magazine. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is the most insane, not normal -- it was one of the most harrowing argue minutes i heard before the supreme court because and jamal of the "new york times" because trump wants to be king, and the supreme court is poised -- is debating on whether or not that's correct that i am wondering the lawyers at the table what -- is that an accurate way to boil it down? >> yeah. look, the way i think about what happened on thursday, the oral argument it was a national disgrace. a national historic disgrace. it's going to go down as one of the worst days in the supreme court. i cannot believe -- well, i can believe that it unfolded how it did. you and i spoke heading into it. but, i wish we were wrong those of us cynical about the court. but, you know, i want to -- i want to talk about the american people very briefly. politico we polled people's opinions on this question. headed into the argument. 70% of americans s

it will williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general, and marcus childress farmer, january 6,ounsel. everyone, thanks for being here. so first of all trump keeps complaining about this courthouse. is really that gold. i've been i've tried several cases in that courthouse it was hard when i was there, but i think they've done some renovations so i guess the answer is no. >> it is a dingy 19, i think 60s or 70s style bonfire of the vanities might be the best way to describe the courthouse. that probably hasn't undergone the kind of renovations that you think it's part of the charm, elliott, i know you also have some details from this day in the courthouse what did we learn? so a day of trial looks like this. >> it's i mean, there's actually quite a lot more than the last know. it doesn't a lot more than the last couple of days. and its, and its done since it today, wasn't adept hey of major bombshell testimony, but there were some very interesting both human moments because this all deals with sex, money, and allegations of lies. and so we can talk through some of the most compe