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jon: donald trump drew a massive crowd in south carolina where he criticized president biden and his son hunters legal troubles his rivals trying media this weekend to react. senior correspondent steve harrigan live with details for us. steve. reporter: john pickens south carolina population just 3,000 more than 50,000 people came on saturday for independence day to hear that former president trump speak. many arrived before dawn and then midday sun and heat, they heard the former president speak for 90 minutes at times trump taking credit for recent supreme court decisions. somebody that hasn t done nearly as well who perhaps has not workeds nearly as hard will not be taking your place on a school, college or at a university they re not going to be we re going by merit back to old merit stham built our country. trump s competitors in the meantime attacking him on multiple front seat nikki haley former south carolina governor said she expected trump s high poll numbers
hill. jon, good evening. the president speaker of the house are expected to talk by phone within the hour. but there is no deal yet. there is no legislative text. members remain in a holding pattern. our job is to make sure the members are well aware there is no agreement. we ve got something we have already passed. we are constantly in touch with our members letting them know. what is being reported mike if there is an agreement will let you know immediately if it. kevin mccarthy promises the house will not vote until everyone has seen the terms of the deal for 72 hours but the house may not vote until midweek. gop members of medics to receive medic democrats oppose that demand. is trying to extort in hold the entire economy hostage in order to make these cuts. the things they re actually proposing do not reduce spending at all. but they are asking for is to introduce something known as work requirements for food and other kinds of social programs. gop members co
today. happening right now, the ntsb investigators are on the scene in ohio at oaf norfolk southern train wrecked in the state. the ntsb says no hazardous materials were released in that wreck after 28 train cars derailed in springfield on saturday. it prompted shelter in place orders for residents. it comes a month after the norfolk southern state crash in east palestine, ohio. crews are still working to remove that contaminated soil and liquid from the site. jason carroll is? springfield now. jason, what are you learning now about this latest crash in. reporter: the ntsb is planning to hold a briefing about two hours from now, abby, at 3:00. hopefully at that point we ll get more guidance, perhaps, in terms of exactly what happened here. we can tell you in terms of the latest derailment, it occurred on saturday about 3:00. there was a man there who caught it on his cell phone just as the training were tipping off. 28 trains out of 200 cards derailed, but again we are bein
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. air space. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a high altitude object hovering ten m miles off the coast of alaska. last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. j joining me now to discuss is retired air force lieutenant general, he was the first chief of intelligence, surveillance and he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principle attack planner by operation desert storm commander of no-fly operations over iraq in the 90s. these days he s the dean of the mitchell institute for aerospace studies. general, thank you for coming back to the program. so what is norad s responsibility and the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, michael, it s good to see you again 37 it s been quite a week for the commander of north american air defen