this time over canada and alaska. lawmakers are demanding answers one week after a spy balloon sparked this diplomatic crisis. i ll talk to the ranking member of the house committee, jim hines of connecticut. plus, dividing lines. president biden targets the gop on cutting medicare and social security. there s a lot of republicans whose dream is to cut social security and medicare. let me say this if that s your dream, i m your nightmare. republicans argue they are under awac from a left-wing culture war. the dividing line in america is no longer right or left. the choice is between normal or crazy. i ll talk to phil murphy of new jersey and spencer cox of utah, about the challenges of bridging america s deep partisan divide. and investigating trump. i m the only one they go after. the facts warranted prosecution. he says donald trump should face criminal charges and design in protest when the manhattan attorney did not act. the lead attorney who worked on
michigan. we do know that object was shot down by an f-16. norad s commander says they aren t calling that object a balloon because they re not able to say right now how that object was able to stay in the air. the uncertainty is escalating the war of words between the united states and china. china claims the united states has been flying balloons over chinese airspace without permission. that s an argument admiral john kirby flatly denied earlier. not true. not doing it. that s absolutely not true. we or not flying balloons over china. also this week, over a week since the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, rescue crews are amazingly still finding survivors in the rubble this morning, but the devastation is immense, spanning the area nearly the size of texas, and the number of people confirmed dead is now more than 35,000. in moments i ll be talking with former arizona senator jeff flake, now the ambassador to turkey about how the u.s. is helping people there.
the sky, but they ve now had to do it four times in less than two weeks. what the heck is going on? is today the day the white house gives the public some answers. dramatic video out of turkey where this woman was pulled from the rubble after spending 175 hours buried alive. she s not the only one. the stories that are providing flickers of joy in the midst of an escalating catastrophe coming up. nikki haley is poised to become the first republican to take on donald trump and she won t be the last. it s one thing to run. who is ready to actually go after the former president who is already in attack mode. lots to get to. we start with the extraordinary developments in the sky above the u.s. pentagon and military officials are scrambling to answer the question the entire country is asking. what are those unidentified objects we keep shooting down including three in the last three days. we re hoping to get more answers from the white house briefing set to get under way an
react? terrific hypothetical, we re not there yet. you have the chinese spy issue, chinese buying more oil from russia, china, you know, opening up cases in the u.s. trying to steal u.s. technology from universities, president xi is going to be meeting with the iranian president, at what point do a big review of the u.s. relationship with china, and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. level set here, and i know i m running close on time, but sorry. no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at bali, at the g20. the whole purpose of that discussion was to move this relationship forward in a better way. most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. the president knows that, and he wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way. and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of the
that boat. brian: a lot of people live on the water, maybe they are clamming. ainsley: a lot live on the boat. steve: 30% of people under my plane yesterday were under 10, people are traveling going places. ainsley: we had our spring break last two weeks, most schools in new york, coming back from spring break. brian: soon the kids will make their decisions. meanwhile, donald trump knows where he is going for spring break, new york city. he will be arraigned in manhattan court downtown tomorrow. ainsley: multiple secret service are testifying this week related to documented at mar-a-lago. steve: alexandria hoff, good morning. alexandria: no expectation that the president will be held in new york. he plans to return back to mar-a-lago. the former president outlined his plans on truth social, ending the post saying america was not supposed to be this way. former president is referring to alvin bragg s indictment against him. we do not know the specific charges,