his grieving mother pleading for action on police reform. so what are lawmakers going to do? and more lies from george santos, the latest having to do with a broadway show. even the great white way can t escape this. the new reporting and what it means for the gop. let s start with the story we are all talking about this evening, the chinese spy balloon flying over the country tonight. cnn s alex marquardt has the latest. reporter: tonight u.s. officials tell cnn the u.s. has not ruled out shooting down the chinese spy balloon once there is no risk to civilians below. but secretary of state antony blinken telling reporters that china s flagrant violation of u.s. sovereignty forced him to postpone his trip to beijing. i made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in u.s. air pace is a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and international law. it s an irresponsible act and that the prc s decision to take this action is detrimental to the substantive discussi
inflation. prices fell dramatically last month for manufacturers. of course, those costs passed down to consumers eventually. the flip side, there are still banking fears simmering, futures way down ahead of the opening bell, you can see there. what all of this means as we get another big decision coming, that is, the feds, whether it will raise interest rates again. plus this morning escalating tensions after an alarming encounter over the black sea, a russian fighter jet colliding with an unmanned u.s. drone. that $23 million aircraft then crashing into the sea and the race is now on to recover it. extreme life-threatening weather continues to hammer both coasts this morning. record rain, swamping california, heavy snow, 3 feet in some areas, burying the northeast. this morning nearly half a million people without power. we are going to get to all of that, but we do want to begin with the economy this morning, this new data that just dropped, cnn chief business corres
do? and more lies from republican congressman george santos. the latest has to do with now a broadway show. even the great white way can t escape this. we ll break down the new reporting and what it all means for the gop. but let s start with the story we re all talking about this evening, the chinese spy balloon flying over the country tonight. cnn s alex marquardt has the latest. reporter: tonight u.s. officials tell cnn the u.s. has not ruled out shooting down the chinese spy balloon once there s no risk to civilians below. but secretary of state antony blinken telling reporters that china s flagrant violation of u.s. sovereignty forced him to postpone his trip to beijing. i made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in u.s. airspace is a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and international law, that it s an irresponsible act and that the prc s decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions
nation once again. we re not a free nation right now. we don t have free press. we don t have free anything. just a small sample of donald trump s dark speech at cpac. we ll have more of the former president s maga messaging in just a moment. meanwhile it sure sounds like his former secretary of state is also running for president. mike pompeo is making the rounds, criticizing trump s fiscal record while in the white house. and also ahead, we ll have a look at president joe biden s visit to selma, alabama, to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this week just outside washington, dc, where former president donald trump returned to the stage at cpac over the weekend. for nearly two hours saturday evening trump addressed a smaller than usual crowd at the conservative conference in national harbor, maryland. there the 2024 pre
united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, an exclusive interview with the chancellor of germany, olaf scholz. on putin s war in ukraine, on whether ukraine and russia should start talking about a peace deal, and about the future of europe itself. and, chevron ceo mike wirth on the present and future of oil. which still powers our world. and also just where did covid come from? the so-called lab leak theory just got new life this week. we ll follow the facts with dr. leana wen. but first, here is my take. we re often told that america is deeply divided, that polarization makes it impossible for us to make any progress in policy. that our country is so internally con flicked it cannot project unity and strength to the world. but on the most important foreign policy issue confronting policymakers, the problem is closer to the opposite. washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on china that has turned into a classic example of g