alleged criminal being arraigned tomorrow. his reception at trump tower is quiet as 2015 was flashy. no crowds inside just to now private citizen moving rather quickly from his car to his residence tonight, the latest on what happened today and everything we know about tomorrow when he leaves trump tower heads downtown in this country is 45th president becomes the first to face criminal charges. the exact charges still sealed. we know more about what the process will look like and how much of any of it we will get to see. we have correspondents and attorneys on all the angles tonight. cnn s jason carroll at trump towers, you know shimon prokupecz and paula reid downtown with what awaits the former president tomorrow and security surrounding it. let s start with jason carroll outside where the former president is tonight. do we know how he is spending tonight? what we do, and it started. when trump arrived here late this afternoon, anderson gave a quick wave to some of the supporters wh
billings. the public did not find out in any widespread way till you all saw it thursday night. it was only after that that blinken abruptly postponed his trip to beijing. now we are covering this story from all angles tonight. oren lieberman is at the pentagon. selina wang is in beijing. and tom foreman is tracking this spy balloon. i want to begin with oren. so what more are you learning from your sources there? reporter: the pentagon not buying at all this chinese explanation that it was a weather balloon that just happened to have floated off course because of strong winds. we ve already seen part of that response, as you pointed out. secretary of state antony bli blinken delaying his visit to beijing which would have been the first visit of the top u.s. diplomat to beijing in six years. the question is how much further is the pentagon willing to go, the biden administration on this balloon? i have no idea what this thing is. reporter: a chinese spy balloon drifting across th
the afghanistan debacle unfolding, it s obvious we have no one in our government competent enough to manage the situation and answer simple questions. in fact, i am finding the more joe biden speaks on, this the less reassured we are. his top pentagon brass are no better. they dazzle us with inaptitude. from covid to kabul we will hit all angle s tonight. but first meet joe biden. that s the focus of tonight s angle. president biden may sit in the oval office today, but it s worth remembering for most of his political career he s been an unserious laughingstock. up until 2020 his own party never took him seriously as a presidential candidate. his first failed bid was in the 1988 election. but he only ended up providing
weapons. and just hours ahead of a major speech in seoul, the president is dialing back his harsh rhetoric against kim jong-un s nuclear-armed regime, declaring that efforts to pressure north korea are starting to work and that he hopes the north will come to the table and make a deal. i ll speak with senator chris murphy and our correspondents, specialists and guests, they re all standing by with full coverage. we re covering all the angles tonight. we ll get to the new details of the texas massacre in a moment. let s begin with our white house correspondent sara murray. she s with the president in seoul. s sara, update our viewers on the very latest. north korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action. reporter: president trump aiming to send a muscular signal to north korea. the united states stands prepared to defend itself and its allies using the full range of our unmatched military
mr. chairman, just if i can finish. that answer, in my view, doesn t pass the smell test. we will come at this story from all angles tonight. the justice department, the white house and capitol hill. we start with msnbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, do you get the sense that the committee is frustrated with the attorney general not answering all the questions? i think some members were, yes, indeed. and at the very end the republican chairman said, why don t you go back to the president, see if there s anything he was is willing to let you say about your conversations and then get back to us in writing. but i think, greta, overall this hearing accomplished what senator attorney general sessions wanted it to, which was to give him a chance to defend himself. he said, as you just heard, that he never colluded with any russians to in any way affect the elections. he has no recollection of a third meeting with the russian ambassador last april of last year, as h