top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat
moments, which is exceptional. you know, i have to say this moment of standing up for our constitution and our declaration of independence is something i don t think should be controversial. just recently, one of my appointments to the state school board stood up in a school board meeting and advocated that we should teach about our constitution and we should teach about our declaration of independence. and all of a sudden, there was an effort made by left liberal democrats to smear her and remove her, and they did just that recently. and that s she s with us here tonight. i want to thank you for your service. [ applause ] this shouldn t be controversial. we should embrace our history, all of it, the good and the bad. we should understand where we ve come from. we should understand our founding documents. and, yes, we should say the pledge of allegiance. so your commonwealth is a little bit whacky in the sense you term limit your governors after one term. they are only
thanks for watching. i will see you back here nex weekend at 5 pm eastern. american voices with a latiu undoes starts right now on msnbc. thank you reverend sharpton and happy easter to you. hello very one i am alicia menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion rights from the fal of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed and i abortion federal suspended fda approval of suppressed own, in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said all options are on th table to keep this medicatio available for the millions who need it. well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is available t them not just in a week, but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge in one court and one state 50s approval process for saf and effective medications. we have to s
good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning. we are grateful you are starting your sunday, march 19th with us. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker. is there a good morning? it is a very good morning for me. it is a great one. because boris is going to getting a lot more sleep on the weekends. look, there is really no bad news. there is some breaking news. i guess the bad news is that you won t be able to see boris bright and early in the morning saying buenos dias, but, for all the boris fans you will be getting a lot more of boris during the week. we don t want to disclose all the details. look, i think you and i channelled each other because we are kind of in mourning with all of our black. sadly, because we won t be together. that s the bad news. the good news, you will get so much more of boris. you are too kind. more of that in a sec. here is what we are watching today. russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian-o
two alleged chinese agents, accusing them of running a secret police station in new york s chinatown. the feds are describing it as an unprecedented operation aimed at intimidating chinese dissidents and a potential roadblock for democrats plans to temporarily replace senator dianne feinstein on the judiciary committee. some key republicans now signaling they hope to block the move and keep biden s judicial nominations log jammed. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world will flip is on assignment. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. we are following fast moving developments in multiple stories tonight. right now we re awaiting a news conference from the prosecuting attorney in kansas city, missouri, where a black teenager was shot after mistakenly going to the wrong house. elderly white man apparently lived. cnn security correspondent josh campbell is with us, josh walk us through what we know about the shooting, which took