senate on the china spy craft that flew over u.s. airspace or into it last week. all house members got a briefing about two hours ago. they have had a chance to go through some of that material more in detail. it is the senate s chance now. not until 12 days after the first flight crossed into our airspace republicans say the lack of transparency all around is abyss mall. i think the president should have gone before country and explained. here is what it is and what i decided to do about it and why. people would have understood it. they didn t tell congress until one of the news outlets ran with the story and it cut a diagonal path across the middle of the country and never explained to us it was coming or why. i mean to us the american public. harris: right now the senate subcommittee on defense is looking at why the military let it happen in the first place. since they say it happened before why couldn t they keep it away from montana for example? armed services and fo
balloon after it reveals it was capable of collecting evidence. the president s critics say it should have been shot down sooner. they had a chance to shoot it down over water and they did and recovered major pieces of it. have relations now between u.s. and china taken a big hit? no. no. owl speak to former defense secretary leon panetta whose criticism of the spy balloon and its response has caught the president s attention. and as the death toll rises to 19,000 people, and hope fades to find any more survivors, we ll talk to david milla land, the president of the international committee helping thousands displaced across turkey and syria. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. as the 2024 campaign is right around the corner it seems with president biden arriving in battleground florida at this hour to tout his support for social security and medicare. republican governors and senators have put the stake firmly in the gop column for more than
federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we re live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. the truth is i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. by the administration s logic, we would allow the chinese to fly surveillance balloons over the pentagon or other sensitive sites near populated areas. as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i m not going to. i want to bring in nbc s ryan nobles who s on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplomatic c
it s 10:00 a.m. here in washington. i m garrett haake, and we are following breaking news in kentucky. new details this morning about a deadly crash overnight involving two military helicopters during a training exercise. right now at least nine people are reported to be dead according to the new york times. and we re expecting an update momentarily. an american journalist detained in russia. russia claiming the wall street journal reporter was caught red handed. the paper vehemently denies the allegations. what the white house is saying about this latest escalation. another fiery train derailment, this time in minnesota forcing evacuations of a nearby town. some of the roughly 22 cars carrying ethanol. this just weeks after that toxic disaster in east palestine, ohio. we ll have the latest on the continuing efforts on the ground. and a wild story from the halls of capitol hill, sources telling nbc news a food service worker was arrest ds and accused of recording au
our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church just ahead. a grieving nashville community left asking why it s a question. investigators are working to answer as they comb through ominous writings left by a school shooter. terrifying video shows the moment of fire ripped through a migrant detention center on the mexico us border, killing dozens of people and an extraordinary moment as former vice president mike pence, is ordered to testify before a federal grand jury investigating former president donald trump. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us well, nashville, tennessee is planning a citywide candlelight vigil tonight for the three children and three adults killed in monday s school shooting. there s already a growing memorial of flowers, balloons and crosses outside the covenant school. nashville mayor john cooper says the city has set up a fu