NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (May 12)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, President Trump heads to Beijing for a major summit with China, trade, Taiwan, and Iran, all expected to dominate those talks. Jack Bradley with the details. FBI Director Kash Patel warns senators about Chinese Communist Party-linked crime networks, fentanyl trafficking, cyber threats, and illegal grow operations across the country. Patel also says the FBI is already ramping up security operations ahead of the World Cup. Republicans can create a major congressional map victory in Missouri today, even as they face a separate redistricting setback in South Carolina. Arlene Richards with the details. And more than two years after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore, federal prosecutors say the disaster was preventable. They've now filed criminal charges against two shipping companies and a senior employee. Christina Corona reports. And a mayor in California resigns and agrees to plead guilty to acting as a CCP agent. Prosecutors say she spread Chinese regime propaganda, denying human rights abuses in Xinjiang and more. This is NTV Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. I'm Cary Dunst. President Trump is on his way to Beijing for a major summit with Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping. Trade, Taiwan, and the conflict in Iran are all expected to be on the agenda. NTV's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more on that. President Trump departing Washington for Beijing for a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He's set to pursue new trade agreements with China to bring down the U.S. trade deficit at over $200 billion. China is expected to purchase U.S. goods like soybeans, beef, and other farm products. And the U.S. may also sell potentially hundreds of Boeing commercial aircraft to China, along with increased purchases of U.S. oil and liquid natural gas. President Trump will be accompanied by 16 tech and business CEOs, including Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, and BlackRock's Larry Fink, among others. Trump is also set to raise other sensitive issues, like the conflict in Iran. We're going to have a long talk about it. Do you think he needs to intervene at all with the Iranians? I don't think he does. Do you think he can help in any way? No, I don't think we need any help with Iran. We'll win it one way or the other. Now, China has a lot of incentive to push Iran toward a peace deal. China buys up to 90 percent of Iran's oil, and that supply has been cut off now for about a month after the U.S. imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports. And the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for almost half of China's oil imports, is essentially closed down for every country due to the threat of Iranian attacks on commercial ships. But even so, Trump says that he won't need Xi's help to push Iran toward a peace deal. I don't think we need any help with Iran, to be honest with you. They're defeated militarily, and they'll either do the right thing or we'll finish the job. Taiwan will also come up in the summit. Xi Jinping has stated his intention to take over Taiwan by force if necessary. Taiwan is the world's largest chip producer, which is necessary to make nearly all electronics. But they're also a self-governing democracy. The Trump administration approved a record $11 billion weapon sale to Taiwan back in December, the Taiwanese president releasing this message ahead of Trump's trip. I would like to thank the United States for helping us strengthen our defense capabilities. Democracy is one of the values that links Taiwan to the world. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to be part of the U.S. delegation to China. China sanctioned Rubio back in 2020 for introducing bills as a senator targeting the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on political dissidents in Hong Kong and slavery camps for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang. And he's also introduced legislation to stop China's forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. Now China will be waiving those sanctions for his visit. President Trump also said that he'll bring up the cases of imprisoned Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai and Chinese pastor Ezra Jin. Xi Jinping is expected to visit Washington later this year. For NTD News Washington, I'm Jack Bradley. And Pete Hegseth back on the Hill. The Secretary of War was in a double-header budget hearing, China, Russia and Iran dominating that agenda. NTD correspondent Jason Blair has the key takeaways. The $1.5 trillion budget will ensure the United States continues to maintain the world's most powerful and capable military as we grapple with a complex threat environment across multiple theaters. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth back before Congress on Tuesday for back-to-back budget hearings in both the House and the Senate. China, Russia and Iran remain the primary focus. China is modernizing its military at a pace and scale that is alarming. The current threat environment facing the United States is as serious and as layered as anything I have witnessed during my time in Congress. Hegseth says keeping Iran from having nuclear capabilities is still a high priority. Iran has effectively tried to use the North Korea strategy with such overwhelming capabilities conventionally that no one would dare prevent them from pursuing a nuclear weapon. And it took President Trump to have the courage to make that historic decision. Rep Rosa DeLauro says she'd prefer to have the administration focus on the cost of living rather than a large military budget. With gas prices and inflation numbers increasing, the American people just want to afford the basic necessities for everyday life. But this administration is not doing anything to help them with the cost of living crisis. In the Senate, how to protect and deter a possible invasion against Taiwan by China was brought up by Senator Jerry Moran. One of the things that is seemingly clear to me is that Taiwan remains at the forefront of the Chinese efforts, next steps in what they want to accomplish. Through the president's leadership, we've re-established deterrence. The world knows that America's word means something. And when you do that, plus build out your alliances, all the right people pay attention to that and see it. And that's been the focus in the Indo-Pacific. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News. Next, a major legal victory for Republicans in Missouri today as the state's highest court ruled to keep a map favoring Republicans even as a separate redistricting push stalls in South Carolina. NTD's Arlene Richards brings us more on that. Increasingly, the battle for control of Congress is unfolding not only at the ballot box but in courtrooms and state houses across the country. In Missouri Tuesday, the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of keeping a newly drawn congressional map after hearing arguments earlier in the day over whether it violated the state constitution. At issue in this case are the Missouri constitution's mandatory requirements for congressional redistricting. That each and every district be as compact as may be, the subject of our first claim, and that every district be equally populated and contiguous. Opponents argued the proposed map is designed to give Republicans control of seven of Missouri's eight congressional districts. Meanwhile, in South Carolina, Republicans faced a setback after the state Senate voted against a House amendment that would have moved forward with a mid-decade redistricting effort. President Trump had urged lawmakers to support the effort, saying he was counting on their elected leaders to use every legal and constitutional authority they have to stop the radical left Democrats from destroying our country. Republicans and Democrats are increasingly turning to courts and state legislatures as both parties fight for an advantage ahead of the 2026 midterms. Republicans could target up to 14 additional seats nationwide, while Democrats are targeting about six. Democrats are also hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually allow Virginia to implement a new congressional map that could favor Democrats and potentially add four seats. Several Republican-led states, including Tennessee, Florida, and Texas, have already advanced new maps, while Democrats are pursuing legal challenges and redraw efforts in states like New York and California. Marlene Richards, NTD News. FBI Director Kash Patel and DEA Administrator Terrence Cole are telling senators today that federal agencies are expanding their efforts to counter criminal networks tied to China, including fentanyl precursor trafficking, cyber threats, as well as illegal marijuana operations in multiple states. NTD's Chris Bobb brings us more on that. As I've said, we've arrested 44% more espionage actors from China, Russia, the DPRK, and Iran alone. China taking center stage at a Senate hearing Tuesday as lawmakers questioned FBI and DEA officials about cyber threats, fentanyl trafficking, and transnational criminal networks linked to the Chinese Communist Party. FBI Director Kash Patel posting a graphic before the hearing, reporting his agency has arrested more than 45,000 violent criminals, disrupted over 2,400 gangs and criminal enterprises, increased counterintelligence arrests by more than 50%, and boosted cyber-related indictments by 158% under the Trump administration. Senator Jerry Moran pressing DEA Administrator Terrence Cole about Chinese precursor chemicals fueling fentanyl production in Mexico. I just returned from a visit to China, where in conversations with Chinese leaders, we again pushed the issue of precursor chemicals. We continue to target the Chinese organizations that are sending this precursor chemicals into Mexico for the manufacturing of fentanyl to come across our border. The DEA chief warning that the fentanyl pipeline remains active despite increased coordination with foreign partners. We can only determine the effect when we start to see the decrease in Americans that are dying at the hands of this poison that is coming out of Mexico but is being fueled by China and India. Senator Susan Collins also raising concerns about illegal marijuana grow operations in Maine, allegedly linked to Chinese-backed criminal organizations. The Chinese nationals that are doing most of the criminal activity related to the grow houses have either severed ties or covered their tracks very well. They're often using crypto as the instantaneous transfer of wealth. Patel also highlighting how the FBI recently secured the return of a CCP-linked cyber criminal from Italy. The top cyber criminal from the CCP was housed in Italian custody. While there, we were able to work an agreement and arrangement to have that individual expelled from Italy instead of going back to China like has so often happened. And Patel testifying that he's expanding FBI coordination ahead of upcoming international events in the U.S., saying, quote, this summer, all eyes are focused on the World Cup. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Chris Bobb, NTD News. Next, Dr. Marty Muckery is no longer the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. President Trump confirmed early reports of Muckery's departure while speaking outside the White House ahead of his trip to China. Trump declined to say whether Muckery resigned or was fired. Muckery had faced criticism from companies, lobbyists, and others for agency officials declining to approve certain drugs. His exit comes as Trump has seen some of his health nominees stall in the Senate approval process, including his pick for Surgeon General, Dr. Casey Means. Trump recently announced he was withdrawing her nomination and now tapping Dr. Nicole Safier as his new nominee. FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Kyle Diamantis will serve as the agency's acting commissioner. And the Justice Department has filed criminal charges in the deadly 2024 collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. Prosecutors say the ship's operators knew about a hazardous condition, failed to report it, and later tried to mislead investigators. NTD's Christina Corona tells us more on that. Federal prosecutors have charged two shipping companies and a senior employee in the March 2024 collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. The defendants are Synergy Marine, Synergy Maritime, and Technical Superintendent Radha Krishnan Karthik Nair. Authorities say the cargo ship Dolly lost power twice within four minutes after leaving the Port of Baltimore. As alleged in the indictment, the Dolly struck the Key Bridge because it lost power twice in a four-minute period of time prior to striking the bridge. Prosecutors say the second blackout happened because the ship was using an improper fuel pump. The indictment alleges that if the Dolly had been using the proper fuel supply pumps, then the vessel would have regained power in time to safely navigate under the Key Bridge. But because the ship was using the flushing pumps, which did not have the redundancies, the ship did not regain power in time. The crash caused the bridge to collapse, killing six construction workers. We allege that Synergy knew about the improper use of the flushing pump on the Dolly and on other Synergy vessels and willfully failed to notify the Coast Guard of this hazardous condition. Prosecutors say the defendants also provided false documents and statements to investigators. The economic and human costs of this catastrophe have been borne every day by ordinary men and women and most of all by the families of the six workers who were killed. The charges include conspiracy, obstruction, false statements and misconduct resulting in death. The Synergy Marine Group has responded in a statement saying the DOJ is, quote, criminalizing a tragic accident. The firm says the incident was caused by a loose wire. Maryland estimates the rebuilding of the bridge will cost more than $4 billion, with reconstruction expected by 2030. Christina Corona, NTD News. Next, the Senate has confirmed Kevin Warsh's nomination for a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. A vote on his nomination for a concurrent four-year term as Fed Chair could take place as soon as tomorrow. Warsh is expected to replace Jerome Powell, whose term as Fed Chair ends Friday. Warsh has faced questions over whether he would resist pressure from President Trump to cut interest rates. He responded saying the Federal Reserve must remain independent, telling senators he made no agreement with President Trump on interest rates before being nominated. And data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows annual inflation rose to 3.8% in April. Economists had forecast the jump to 3.7. Poor inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, edged up 2.8% on a month-to-month basis. April prices rose 0.6% from March, with gas prices rising 5.4%. Grocery prices rose 0.7%. Labor Department data showed gas prices are up more than 28% compared to a year ago. AAA reports an average gas price above $4.50 a gallon. Here's President Trump prior to his departure for China. Now, with all of this, inflation is much lower than it was under Biden. Biden had the highest inflation in the history of our country. Inflation is nothing by comparison, but our inflation is just short-term. Because if you go from before, just before the war, we were, for the last three months, 1.7%. And now what you have is, as soon as this war is over, you're going to see inflation go down to probably 1.5%. And the Department of Energy announced it will release more than 53 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This is part of the U.S.'s pledge to add 172 million barrels to the international market. More than 30 countries are also included in an initiative that focuses on bringing roughly 400 million barrels of oil to the world. The Strait of Hormuz remained restricted amid the Iran conflict. The waterway carries about one-fifth of the world's natural gas and oil supply. Coming up, the number of individuals infected with the hantavirus is expected to rise. Ariane Pasdar has why the U.S. and WHO says there's no major risk to the general public. And a mayor in California resigns and agrees to plead guilty to accepting as a CCP agent. Prosecutors say she spread Chinese regime propaganda denying human rights abuses in Xinjiang and more. This spring, New York City comes alive. A celebration of faith, culture, and freedom of belief. Thousands take to the streets of Manhattan to share a message you don't want to miss. Tune in to NTD's special live coverage of the 2026 World Falun Dafa Day Parade. Wednesday, May 13th at 10.30 a.m. Eastern. Live from New York City, only on NTD. I'm Jonathan Lawson. If you're 50 to 85, please listen closely. The lock I want to talk to you about isn't the one on your door. It's a rate lock for your life insurance that guarantees that once you're insured, your rate can never go up at any time for any reason. Many policies you see don't have one, but you can get a lifetime rate lock from Colonial Penn. 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The head of the WHO on Tuesday, speaking alongside the president of Spain, the hantavirus risk level is currently low, but the numbers could still change according to the WHO. Given the long incubation period of the virus, it's possible we might see more cases in the coming weeks. He went on to explain why exactly the number of confirmed cases is still expected to rise. There was a lot of interaction, actually, with the passengers. And as you know, the incubation period is also six to eight weeks. So because of the interaction, while they were still in the ship, especially before they started taking some infectious prevention measures, because of the interaction, we would expect more cases. Still, the United States is confident the virus doesn't pose a risk to the general public at this point, as Health Secretary RFK Jr. made clear on Monday. We have this under control, and we're not worried about it. But it looks like it's just a disease that we've had around in a very small way for a long time. Not a good one to catch, because it's a very severe disease if you catch it, but it's very hard to catch. French President Emmanuel Macron, meanwhile, taking a different tone, saying France has adopted an extremely strict protocol for all identified contact cases. Now it's important that there be real European coordination, meaning that the protocols move towards the most demanding standards that have been defined. And video released by the British military shows a paratrooper arriving on a remote island to deliver medical aid to a person suspected of contracting the virus. The island is called Tristan da Cunha and is home to only around 200 people. It lies halfway between South Africa and South America and is the world's remotest inhabited island. A person living there was one of the passengers on the MV Hondja's cruise ship and started developing symptoms two weeks after leaving the ship. In a disturbing story of a U.S. politician doing the bidding of communist China, the Justice Department saying a California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to operating as an agent for the CCP. NTD's Daniel Monaghan has the details of yet another troubling case of Beijing attempting to influence the events here in the U.S. Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wong resigned yesterday from her position after being charged with secretly carrying out the directives of a foreign government. Wong was voted onto the Arcadia City Council in November 2022 and was mayor when the charges were brought. The position of mayor rotates among the five-member council. Arcadia is about 13 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Wong resigned following the announcement of the charges. Court documents say Wong and her fiancé and campaign treasurer Yao Ning Mike Sun of Chino Hills worked on behalf of instructions from Chinese regime operatives from late 2020 through 2022. The two ran a site called U.S. News Center marketed to the local Chinese-American community as a news outlet. But prosecutors say in reality it was used to spread CCP propaganda. According to Wong's plea agreement, a Chinese official sent her pre-written content on WeChat in 2021 denying genocide and forced labor allegations in Xinjiang and accusing critics of trying to undermine China. Prosecutors say Wong uploaded the article to her website within minutes and sent the link to the official to which he replied so fast, thank you everyone. By August 2021, prosecutors say Wong was editing articles at an official's request and forwarding screenshots showing how many views the articles were receiving. After a post showed over 15,000 views, the official said great and Wong wrote back thank you leader. Wong acknowledged in her plea agreement that she never notified the Attorney General that she was working as a CCP operative and she never disclosed on her website that some of its content had been published at the direction of CCP officials. Court filings also show Wong corresponded in November 2021 with John Chen, identified as a senior figure in the CCP's intelligence structure who attended elite CCP functions and met personally with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Chen was sentenced in November 2024 to 20 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to acting as an illegal Chinese agent and conspiracy to bribe a public official. Wong faces up to 10 years in prison. The FBI commented on the case saying it will continue working to safeguard the integrity of elections and keep hostile actors from undermining the voices of the American people. Daniel Monahan and TV News. And in light of that California mayor found out to be an agent of China, lawmakers in D.C. say the CCP offered a staffer $10,000 to reveal U.S. policy. Hear from the chair of the House Select Committee on China tonight on Capitol Report at 7 p.m. Eastern. And coming up as President Trump prepares to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, we're going to speak with the CEO of State Armor, an organization helping to defend against threats posed by the Chinese communist regime. There is a road laid out for me Boxes everywhere And this is going to be Addie's room. I think you're really going to like it. I hope so. First night here. But Amy seems cool. We said we'd never give in to a meltdown. Babysit with a scream. We said we'd never let the toys take over. Mariana! Never leave the house looking out of our sight. Cars get hot fast and kids can be at risk. Before you leave the car, always stop, look, lock. Welcome back to Antity Evening News. I'm Kerry Dunst. As President Trump departs for Asia and prepares for his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, we're now joined by Michael Lucci. He's founder and CEO of State Armor. His organization helps states enact solutions to global security threats, especially those that are posed by the Chinese communist regime. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. As President Trump prepares to meet with Xi, could human rights become a point of leverage in the negotiations? Human rights are the most distinct differentiation between the United States of America and the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party is currently conducting a genocide. They also use slave labor across the country. Some of these people, they move around factory to factory against their will in all sorts of atrocities like this. There's a genocide in the western part of the country. They do forced organ harvesting, which means they pull organs out of living people to give it to officials that the Chinese Communist Party prefers. This is unlike any regime we've seen for, say, 85 years. You can think back and see who else acted like that, Nazi Germany and others. So this is the most distinct point of difference between two countries and cultures that are really different across the board and do not fit together. Yeah, Michael. For many Americans, they hear about these abuses in China, but they don't really grasp their scale or the brutality the way that you just very eloquently articulated it. It's very dark to even talk about. So how do we explain the reality of the regime and why it matters to Americans here at home? Well, the way we explain the reality of the regime is to compare it to other historic regimes that were totalitarian dictatorships that suppressed and even killed minorities within their country intentionally and at scale. That's what we need to compare it to. And so we need to make sure that we don't just see this as another regime where we're doing business with the country in the way we might do business with our friends in Japan, with our friends in Europe and otherwise. This is also a regime that is the number one cause of death for military-age men right here in the United States of America. The fentanyl poisoning, the mass chemical poisoning of our young men is the number one cause of death for young military-age men here in the United States of America. So the same regime that's committing atrocities on their soil is the number one cause of death for young men on our soil and it is a regime that we should broadly separate ourselves from. Michael, when we talk about the CCP and how they're not just committing these atrocities in China but as you just described with fentanyl as the number one killer of young men, they are actively looking to disrupt our society in so many ways but they often play the long game while we tend to focus on short-term results. Is that a strategic gap that Beijing has been able to take advantage of particularly with the openness of our Western society? Beijing, without a doubt, takes advantage of the openness of our Western society and we do have to close up those openings. We need to armor our states. We need to protect our country and our homeland as a whole. So Beijing absolutely sees our open society as a system that they seek to exploit and then really destroy over time. Now, Beijing, they like to say how they're so good at playing the long game and there are areas on economic development where they've done an outstanding job in developing their economy but this is also the same regime that forced their own population to have only one child for multiple generations that destroyed the demographic structure of their country. They're trying to reverse that now and they can't. They also make really bad decisions over the long run so they do some things well, they do some things really horribly. Wow, when you put it that way, you really can see how that social engineering is now starting to create systemic problems at home for China but I do want to talk about how they affect Americans. You have a front row seat to that. You see the CCP's unrestricted warfare. You see it in your business and you see it through a variety of means, cyber and espionage. What does that look like? Can you give some actual examples so that people can start to understand how it's very intentional and how they operate? Yeah, I'll give you some very clear examples. So, what I actually do with my colleagues and with state lawmakers is we work together to pass state laws to protect the states from the Chinese Communist Party to protect the universities, to protect our property, our critical infrastructure. What we have noticed is that China tends to have a point man in each individual state, a point man who they run down to the state capital like here where I'm in Austin, Texas, like in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, like in Columbus, Ohio. They have a point man who they run down to interfere with legislative proceedings. Those point men bring in sort of loads and loads, dozens and dozens of Chinese nationals to try to shut down the committee work of protecting our nation. So, that's one very obvious example. A lot of the lawmakers I work with, you know, they are subject to cyber attacks. My colleagues and I are as well. The Chinese Communist Party believes that they should have a veto on Americans in American state houses doing American things like protecting our freedom. They do transnational repression as well. Here in the state of Texas, they've attacked several ministers, several human rights defenders across the state of Texas. That's why Governor Abbott and then Senator Brian Hughes codified the first law on transnational repression to crush those efforts by the Chinese Communist Party. I mean, it's shocking to think that they have a ground game that's going into our state legislators and trying to interfere with our legislative process while they have no open legislative process in their own country. That's shocking. And we saw just this week, of course, these influence operations with the California mayor that we reported on earlier in the show. How deep and widespread is the regime's sort of tentacles into our Western society here in America? Look, I'd put it like this. Arcadia, California has 55,000 people. If they care enough to cultivate the mayor of Arcadia, 55,000 make that mayor an agent of the Chinese Communist Party, which I believe is what she pled guilty to, being an agent of the Chinese Communist Party. That's a 55,000-person, you know, mid-sized town in California. What do you think they care about New York City, San Francisco, here in Austin, Texas, Houston, Texas, all across the country, Washington, D.C., without a doubt? If they're going to cultivate leadership and try to control leadership of a town of 55,000 Californians, they're trying that all across the country. President Biden's team actually sent out a very sound warning in 2022, warning every governor and every mayor that this is happening. Then Secretary Mike Pompeo did the exact same thing. He told every governor in the country, the Chinese Communist Party has ranked each of you for how much they can influence you. Again, it's quite shocking to learn about. When you said you contrasted, you know, the small town right outside Los Angeles being on their radar, what does a major city's infiltration look like, like a New York or a San Francisco or, you know, a Chicago? Well, New York, New York City, the New York Times of all publications actually spelled out more than 50 nonprofit organizations in the city of New York that are interfering with New York municipal and state elections. So these are more than 50, what we call United Front organizations. United Front is a Marxist-Leninist concept of political warfare where essentially they get within our society and they try to tear us apart from the inside. The New York Times of all publications identified more than 50 United Front organizations just in the city of New York. They are generally governed by a man who's been convicted of federal crimes, you know, and somehow he still sort of runs free. So this is just the city of New York where they have more than 50 United Front operations within the state. They undoubtedly have spies. The governor of New York ended up having a spy in her office running interference to block out the Taiwanese from working with the governor of New York. So just to see in New York, we saw more than 50 United Front Chinese Communist Party political warfare organizations and that's according to the New York Times. So it's most likely worse than that. And Michael, beyond their interference in our legislative process, what other types of elements is included in their unrestricted warfare campaign against the U.S. and other Western countries? So two top things that we see them do at the state and local level. One, they deeply infiltrate our universities. When we're testifying across the states, it's often a Chinese professor of a subject like biochemistry who will come down to the state house and be able to testify on five, ten different bills about a wide range of topics. And when you ask them, when state lawmakers ask them, what's democracy like in China? They'll say, oh, I can't talk about that. I can't talk about that. We're not here to talk about China. So it's a Chinese national interfering in our state houses, refusing to answer questions about Communist China, but telling American state lawmakers that they are racist for merely protecting themselves. That's coming out of the universities. They're stealing IP out of the universities like crazy. The other instance is critical infrastructure. They seek to be physically near critical infrastructure. They seek to be able to cyber attack critical infrastructure. They seek to be able to pull data off of critical infrastructure so that they can figure out how to corrupt that critical infrastructure. They have all sorts of assets that they deploy across the states, including here in the state of Texas, that are actually pre-positioned to be able to disrupt our critical infrastructure in the event of a global conflict. Well, I'm shocked. It's, you know, you hear about it every day, but the way that you articulate how granular their attempts are, it really is shocking. Thank you so much for joining us this evening, raising the alarm. I presume that there's a whole bunch of things being done to root this out and I look forward to having the opportunity to explore that with you at a future time. Thank you. From the persecution of Falun Gong to the arrest of members of underground Christian churches, the Chinese Communist Party's repression of religious freedom was the focus of an event today at the Hudson Institute. Antony Sam Wong has the details on that. In China, we see massive, rising hostility to religious freedom. China is the cause, the enabler of most of our global rights issues, human rights issues, and this issue must be elevated to a national security issue. As President Trump is preparing to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, a panel at the Hudson Institute is putting a spotlight on the CCP's persecution of faith. I really think we're in a battle between the CCP and Western civilization. I think their Achilles heel is religious freedom. While we are comfortably living in America, on the other side of the ocean, on the other side of the world, people are losing their loved ones, losing their lives and losing their homes. China is not only a threat to people inside of China, but to a free world. Since its founding, the Chinese Communist Party has considered religious activities as a threat to its power, subjugating people of faith to decades long repression. One of the most notable examples is the persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice whose adherents face harassment, surveillance, imprisonment, torture, and even death for their faith. Falun Gong represents the Communism is a European import into China. I think this is just such a clear fight and I think that's why the CCP fears Falun Gong so much. Since the persecution began in July 1999, Falun Gong practitioners in China have become the main victims of the CCP's campaign of forced organ harvesting. According to the Human Rights Research Center in 2022, there were in 2022 there were 157,494 victims of organ harvesting. It's industrial strength. The scale of this, it's Mengele-like medical experimentation. It's vile. It's the most evil thing I've ever heard of. China's human rights violations have been on the radar of the Trump administration. Just ahead of his meeting with Xi, Trump said he would raise the case of jailed pastor Ezra Jin, founder of the underground Christian Zion Church in China. Jin's daughter Grace Jin Drexel says she's grateful to America for being a nation that cares for the vulnerable. It's like the glimmer of hope that there is actually a possibility that my father will be mentioned and eventually that will lead to his release. This has just been the most hopeful that we've been since the arrest. Speaking about the president's trip to China, Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said that addressing human rights violations, including forced organ harvesting, will remain a priority for the Trump administration. Sam Wong, NTD News, Washington, D.C. Next we move on to some technology news in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Open AI today. CEO Sam Altman, who's being sued by Musk, providing his testimony in court. NTD's David Lam reports. Open AI CEO Sam Altman's been highly anticipated. He's taking the stand and is one of the key defendants sued by Elon Musk. Sam Altman, 41, is the CEO of Open AI and co-founded the company in 2015. This is week 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial at the federal courthouse in Oakland, California. Altman defending himself on Tuesday, saying he can't wrap his head around the accusation that he's stealing a charity. Altman testified that $10 billion in funding was not enough, believing that donations alone couldn't fund the company and that its revenues couldn't cover its costs, including computing expenses. Musk initiated the lawsuit back in 2024, alleging that Open AI's executives and Microsoft's CEO violated Open AI's non-profit mission and sought unjust enrichment. Altman said the company invests everything into research and technology and hasn't paid any profits to investors yet. During cross-examination, when Altman was asked about the testimonies of former executives who accused him of dishonesty, Altman said he didn't know enough about the testimonies executives due to his busy day job. Altman was repeatedly questioned about the time he was fired by the Open AI board, but then rehired. He said it was like running into a burning building because he still wanted to continue building Open AI. The judge expects one more day of testimony with closing arguments on Thursday. In California, David Lam, NTD News. In other Elon Musk news, Tesla is making preparations to expand its robotaxi service to the cities of Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Progress slower than what some expected as Tesla says they're taking a cautious approach for safety reasons. Many people may have thought they would have ridden in a Tesla robotaxi by now, after CEO Elon Musk predicted robotaxis would serve half the U.S. population by the end of last year. However, Musk says the company is taking a, cautious approach to avoid injuries or fatalities. Tesla's robotaxi has since expanded to Dallas and Houston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Musk saying this last month about the robotaxi's progress. The limiting factor for expansion is really rigorous validation, making sure things are completely safe. We don't want to have a single accident or injury with the expansion of robotaxi and we have, to the credit of the team, not had a single one to date. As of now, some robotaxis still have human safety monitors to be able to take control of the vehicle if necessary. The car can be on its own, but we don't want the unknown to happen so we're here. And what is that unknown thing that could happen? If it's like the marathon coming up and certain roads are closed off, a human might be able to better navigate new situations versus a robot where it's kind of just relying on programming. Then there's also the legal side of things. One issue brought up by an Austin police officer was that the robotaxis should never drive faster than the speed limit. However, on Tesla's website, the standard speed profile for supervised driving says the car, quote, drives at normal speed and adjusts speed to match the flow of traffic. We addressed that immediately with Tesla. Our concerns about that, they made it their point that they do that because of their studies, that they believed that it was safer to keep up with the flow of traffic. And we reiterated our point to them that at no time would we ever advocate that you program your vehicles to speed for a multitude of reasons. This comes as preparations are underway to expand robotaxis operations to Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Meanwhile, ride-hailing company Waymo saying on Tuesday that it's recalling about 3,800 robotaxis in the United States. The recall happened after a driverless Waymo vehicle drove into a flooded lane during severe weather. Waymo says they're working on additional software safeguards to prevent such an incident from happening again. Jason Perry, NTD News. Coming up, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan is adding an exhibit on sports that's part of the city's transformation as the FIFA World Cup comes near. NTD's Sean Marshall reports. Say goodbye to bitter coffee and a delicious smooth brew with specialty quality beans expertly roasted in-house. You'll taste the difference with every sip. Fermented with 50 enzymes, today's coffee delivers a rich brew like no other. Made with the highest grade specialty beans available. You're sure to taste the difference. With base enzyme fermented coffee. Is deep sea fish oil really healthy? Due to pollution in the oceans, most fish contain heavy metal elements and radioactive substances. That's why it's so important to choose a pure source of omega-3. 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You know, the steadfast calmness and something to hold on to. It's definitely an inner peace in the midst of something very chaotic and for a lot of people right now, the whole world is very, very chaotic. So I guess that's another reason why so many people are very drawn to this. My graduation was something I will never forget. People like you and me sometimes may have doubts in ourselves but I feel that everything's possible. Find free adult education classes near you at finishyourdiploma.org Welcome back to Entity Evening News. I'm Cary Dunst. The American Museum of Natural History is launching a new exhibit. It's showcasing the sports award items of American champions. Entity's Sean Marshall has more on that. I'm at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York. And with FIFA World Cup coming into town, sports have become a big theme for 2026. Instead of just space, dinosaurs, and general science stuff, objects of sports excellence is now taking place in the spotlight of United States history. Spanning more than 15 sports and nearly 150 years of history, For the Win showcases an extraordinary collection of trophies, rings, and unique awards. It's a display of the tradition of using precious medals and gemstones to commemorate victory. To kick things off, for the press, Super Bowl champion Justin Tuck and world champion boxer Clarissa Shields spoke to the press. And Neil DeGrasse Tyson moderated everything. Many might not know that he was the captain of his high school wrestling team and competed on Harvard's wrestling squad while majoring in physics. If there's ever science anywhere, it is manifest in sports. Force, energy, momentum, mass, there's no greater display of physics in sports. Highlights of the showcase include the National Football League's Vince Lombardi trophy, one of Jesse Owen's gold medals from the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, the 2024 WNBA Championship ring from New York Liberty's Brianna Stewart and Kevin Durant's 2014 USA gold Olympic medal. Let's get some backdrop on what is going on in the heart, mind, and soul of someone who will one day become a champion. If we go back into your childhood, what were you thinking? Well, my journey started very young. I started boxing at the age of 11. I was born in Flint, Michigan, and my dad was in prison. Flint, Michigan. This is the infamous Flint, Michigan. Yeah, the water crisis. Yeah, right, okay. That's what they say is known for. The water crisis and then myself. You know, why not work hard and see where boxing takes me? And then at the age of 13, they said that 2012 would be the first Olympics that they were allowing women to be in. I was 13 at the time. In that sport, yeah. Yeah, in boxing. So I was like, I'm just going to see if when I turn 17, can I go to the Olympics? And then overhaul, I was 17 in London fighting at the Olympics. Whoa. So sports for me was kind of like that avenue where they told me that I could play football or play basketball or play a sport and if I was good enough, get a free education. For me, that was kind of like my aha moment and trying to see that and conquer that. And so like for me, sports was just kind of like, okay, I love Kelvin Alabama, but I did not want to be Kelvin Alabama for the rest of my life and sports was an avenue out of that. And luckily for me, I became good enough to get a scholarship to play the Division I level and then got drafted to New York. And that was Dr. Day. That was the University of Notre Dame. You know, this is, this show is opening right as we begin to prepare for the coming of the World Cup to North America. And here at AMNH, we're going to be doing a number of events and activations to bring people together to both celebrate the World Cup, to look at the importance of sports in all of our lives, and to come together as a informed community at this moment. For a visitor, they can come to the museum and see anything from around the world. But in this exhibition for the wind, they can really see like little stories about people and about how we make beautiful things to celebrate achievement. One of my favorite things is the ring from the New York Liberty Championship ring, because inside the ring there are some hidden surprises and visitors can see those. There's a pair of earrings inside the celebration ring. So there's something for everyone, for kids and for adults. The objects of sports excellence becomes open to the general public May 15th, and will be around until January 3rd. Sean Marshall, NTD News. A great preview of that exhibit here in New York on Manhattan's Upper West Side. That's all for today's news, but for around-the-clock original coverage, you can visit us at NTD.com, or you can use our Entity app. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Cary Dunst. Good night.