I'm Virginia Allen, I'm Spanthus Sheris, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Monday, June 5th.

Here are today's headlines.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has pledged to hold the FBI Director Christopher Ray in contempt of Congress.

Here's what we know. On May 3rd, Comer subpoenaed the FBI for a document that Comer says contains potential incriminating information against President Joe Biden.

The document allegedly includes details involving then-vice President Biden and a foreign national exchanging money for policy decisions.

The FBI has offered for Comer and ranking member Jamie Raskin to review the document.

But Comer says that's not enough. Comer has asked the FBI to hand the document over to the Oversight Committee to review and for investigation.

The FBI said Friday that it has continually demonstrated its commitment to working with the committee to accommodate its request, from scheduling briefings and calls to now allowing the chair and ranking member to review information in person.

But Comer says, given the severity and complexity of the allegations contained within this record, Congress must investigate further. The investigation is not dead. This is only the beginning, according to Comer.

Also, according to Comer, the contempt of Congress hearings will be initiated on Thursday.

The U.S. Capitol was put on alert on Sunday afternoon when a small private business airplane flew into restricted airspace.

The Federal Aviation Administration tried to contact the pilot but did not receive a response. When the pilot did not respond, the North American Aerospace Defense Command authorized two F-16 fighter jets to intercept the small aircraft.

The fighter jets took off from joint-based Andrews in Maryland around 3.30 p.m. on Sunday. The jets were authorized to fly at supersonic speed to catch up with a small plane.

The jets flew so fast that they broke the sound barrier, causing a sonic boom that was heard all over DC and parts of Maryland and Virginia. It sounded like this.

The fighter jets used flares to try to get the attention of the pilot but to no success. The pilot flying the plane is reported to have passed out.

The plane crashed in the mountain as it terrain near the George Washington National Forest in Virginia. Four people, including the pilot, were on board and were killed in the crash.

According to the New York Times, the aircraft was owned by encore motors of Melbourne, which is a Florida-based company.

John Rumpel is 75 and runs that company. The New York Times reached out to him on the phone and Rumpel said he knew the passenger. His daughter, two-year-old granddaughter and her nanny, were on board.

The plane took off from Elizabeth Tin, Tennessee, and was bound for Long Island. Law enforcement reached the site of the crash on Sunday night, but they found no survivors.

A Chinese warship came dangerously close, declining with a US ship and a Canadian ship in the waters of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday.

The US military released a video of the incident that shows the Chinese ship cutting in front of the path of the American destroyer known as the USS Chunghoon and Canada's HMCS Montreal.

The ships were conducting routine duties. The Chinese ship came within 150 yards of the US and Canadian ships, forcing the US ship to slow down so it would not risk hitting the Chinese ship.

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