beautiful shot of st. patrick s cathedral right here in manhattan. i never get tired of seeing that beautiful church. it s beautiful on the inside as well. great to be the here. will: great to be here with you and joey jones here with us. morgan wallen, we re debating, mainstream country. not necessarily, you know, you and i like, i think both of us like a little bit of offshoot country, but morgan wallen, as good as mainstream gets country, that s fair, right in. joey: absolutely. , no i think my what i said was is he bro country or, you know, to me, kind of fits more into the i call genuine country genre. and i think that s because i listen to the words of the song, and you take a step back and you re using a song with rap beats, it is mainstream/bro country, but he s at least singing about things that i experienced, and that s fun for me. will: he s good. as is easter. joey: yes. yes concern. [laughter] we ll listen to some easter songs by morgan wallen later. [laughter]
we begin with brand-new video from the pentagon, showing the moment a russian fighter jet collided with a u.s. drone over international waters. the stunning footage shows the jet approaching the drone, dumping fuel as it gets closer. then striking the drone s propeller before it plunged into the water. the defense department also released these images, one first showing the propeller attacked, a second photo showing the damaged propeller. the kremlin had said the u.s. downed the drone. well, we know that s not true. the video clearly is a receipt for why that didn t happen. almost immediately following the crash, russia sent ships to search for debris. we don t have warships there anymore. biden took them out. our top military brass is doubtful they will find anything, recovering usable intelligence, because that part of the black sea is some 5,000 feet deep. still the incident is very troubling. here s general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. so so was
millennials trying to be more ecofriendly. i think that s great. i was just at a consignment store today. thanks so much. well, the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. we want peace. we want peaceful protests. that s what the family wants. that s what the community wants. they have come out in a way that is in conjunction with what the family has asked for. they have been peaceful while they protest, but they are very, very disturbed. we re out here today because we believe that no one else should go through what tyre nichols went through. they are grateful that the video came out, so now the whole world knows what happened, that he was defenseless, that he was hopeless. look at how they dragged him out of the car. there was no human inside of those men. maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour in memphis, tenness
welcome to the programme. it was budget day here in britain today. a big set piece annual event in which the chancellor stairs into the crystal ball, and tries to predict the future and how best to steer the uk economy through it. the obstacles in his way are common to europe and the united states. high inflation, higher interest rates, and since the pandemic, an intractably acute labour shortage. this graph trackjob vacancies across europe since august 2022, historically high after the pandemic, but you will see the uk, the red line at the very top, is struggling more than most. with 1.1 million vacancies. if more people are employed, more people are paying tax. the good news for the chancellor is that the uk will swerve recession this year thanks to growth returning by the summer. but the economy will still contract by 0.2%. and any brighter news, is tempered by slower growth over the long term. mr hunt said the uk would only grow by 1.8% next year and byjust 2.5% in 2025
the biden administration to shoot down the balloon over the atlantic ocean. the federal aviation administration has issued a ground stop close airspace in north and south carolina until 2:45 p.m. eastern time. the balloon is currently floating over south carolina and moving southeast republican congressman anthony of the homeland security committee standing by with his reaction. but first lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with 30 tables unchecked details. good afternoon mike if you going to shoot down a chinese spy balloon over the atlantic that s exactly how you do it. you close airspace you launched fighters. that appears to be what happened are present biden spoke earlier indicated a decision had been made without offering specifics. [inaudible] earlier this morning on fox former defense secretary chuck said it s unlikely this bible it will make its way home. i do not have the pentagon is going to do with the president ultimately decides but once he gets out