but knighthood is generally granted by a head of state to selected persons to recognize some meritorious achievement.

Here we have the multibillionaire, the former First Lady Secretary of State and U.S.

Two years later, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Zhou and said, "If we drink enough Moutai, we can solve anything." Because of the fact that it's been at so many historical moments, so the brand awareness of Moutai is, like, top-notch, which also explains why it's a status symbol.

There is a phone call between Donald Trump and Brad Raffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia,

You know, it probably isn't as much of a cloud as one might think, at least based on the reaction that we saw from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit with President Xi, because Blinken said that TikTok didn't even come up in their conversations.

WAS SECRETARY OF STATE, NOT

of state for an abortion, but I did

It's the top Ukrainian advisers, the secretary of state to President Trump, the treasury secretary, Vice President Vance, obviously, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States had her head buried in her hands as this shouting match was going on between the three of them.

Questions over the limits of presidential power, against the extent of state rights.

There you see it on the screen CBS our partner in America reporting that in terms of sources talking to them and let's speak to Tom Bateman our State Department correspondent and Tom let me start by asking you about this breaking news we'll come to that resources deal a little later but these are the first casualties of this Trump administration for people who perhaps don't know some of the background just remind people about that whole huge controversy around the signal chat group yeah absolutely and first of all to let you know that the White House being asked about this as you would imagine at the moment saying that it won't comment on reports from anonymous sources but as you say our colleagues at CBS quoting several sources saying that Mike Waltz and Alex Wong will leave their positions today and as you say that would be a highly significant moment the first to leave their posts in any senior official position in this second Trump administration now as for Mike Waltz it's it's interesting that we've heard a lot less from him publicly he's been a lot less publicly visible over the last few weeks having gone from a position of really high visibility in the administration I mean I remember being in the room as a group of journalists interviewed him and Marco Rubio the Secretary of State in Saudi Arabia when the administration had just met the Russians the first meeting between the minister of the US administration and the Russians in quite a significant amount of time so he was at the highest profile levels of foreign policy for the administration and then we had March which was that signal chat that was set up by Mike Waltz the National Security Advisor included several high-level officials in that and others working for them and he had mistakenly included Jeffrey Goldberg the editor of the Atlantic magazine who then broke the story about how this signal chat had been set up in which Pete Hegseth the Defense Secretary shared what the administration denied was classified information but was clearly attack plans for the bombing of Houthi positions in Yemen but not only that row about classified information being used on a commercial chat application at the most senior levels of the US administration but also sort of deeply embarrassing internal discussions between the members of the administration about first of all whether they wanted to go ahead with this plan to bomb the Houthis because some members of the administration particularly J.D.