our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. and just ahead on cnn news room former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury on thursday for more than five hours. latest numbers show that the u.s. economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.1% in the first quarter of 2023. never in a million years did i imagine that as american citizens my parents would be left to fend for themselves in a warzone. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, april 28, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where it is another first for donald trump. like most of the others, it is not a good one. never before in more than history has a vice president been compelled to testify about direct conversations with the president he served. that is the situation mike pence found himself in on thursday before a grand jury. katelyn polantz has the details. reporter: former vice president mike pe
cowardly feckless response to this crisis downs unfold in realtime. how dangerous is this for our national security? we ll have a deep dive into that. let us be clear this balloon wasn t out for a joy ride. chinas was collecting intelligence absolutely testing your president and the u.s. response. day after day went by and any attempt to assure any of us that they didn t collect intel is not credible to me. is it not possible they had technology maybe we don t know about? we stopped them from collecting intelligence. do you know that for sure? i don t think anyone could answer that question honestly tonight but america needs answers. it s about our national security. why did joe biden fail to respond when he became aware of this incident? first on saturday, january 28th, the spy balloon flew over alaska. joe biden did nothing. two days later on monday, january 30th, it was flying over canada. joe biden continued to do nothing. by tuesday of last week, china s eye in the sky
cloned three cavs that, once grown, will be capable of producing 50% more milk than the average american cow. so they re putting our cows out to pasture like voters did to hillary. that is a reach but i approve. by the way, i believe we have a picture of the new super cows. [cheers and applause] greg: yes. off to a good start! okay. enough of that. let s talk about giant balloons, all right? yeah! greg: no. not those. i mow ten chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina. china should have said there was a boy inside. that s what i would have done. then i would have shot it down because i m a bad man. anyway there was lots of speculation over the balloon s sudden appearance rumor has it joe insisted that it was just a full moon. maybe it came from hunter s birthday party from last saturday. you know he loves his balloons. normally if they re full of cocaine and shoved up a drug mule s ass but still. hunter and the balloon have a lot in comm
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nuclear fuel and radioactive waste at the department of britgy. britain identifies as non binary and gender fluid. , does how does he talk aboute woul holding the bar really high? you know, he d still be there if they didn t have thatr this security footage, by the way. well, for this administration,ea it s failure as far as the eye can see. yet zero accountability.io none still no senior officials ,no cabinet official fired,. not alejandro. mat them all in my caucus at dhs, notyo leave it to boot. a judge at the department ofof transportation, not the queen of transitory inflation, janetey yellen, at treasury.. so the only logical conclusions at this point can be that america s decline is theirco was agenda. now, biden s balloon fiasc ao ws a national embarrassment fors the united states at every turn. and it remindsthe us that weoking really don t have military leaders who are looking out foor us . even wheustin generals austin and molly blew the afghanistano withdrawa