new details about what fighter pilots did to get the attention of an unresponsive pilot for his private jet crashed in virginia. new information just in about when the trouble began. we begin with exclusive new reporting on a previously unreported episode in the mar-a-lago documents case. it comes as attorneys for the former president met today with justice department officials and signed signs increasingly indicate that special counsel jack smith s probe could be in its final stage. cnn s kaitlan collins is here with more. so, walk us through this exclusive reporting about mar-a-lago. it s a bit of a bizarre story, so bear with me. it was in last october, we are told that this maintenance worker at mar-a-lago drained april. and when they joined the pool, it caused a flood that flooded this room. we are told it has the computer servers, which store the surveillance footage on them. that s important because we know prosecutors have been looking at the surveillance footage
i am stephanie ruhle. welcome to a special monday night, our state of the union preview. there is now less than 24 hours before president biden s big speech at 9 pm eastern tomorrow. this will be his first state of the union before congress. one with the republican house majority. it comes two years into biden s first term, and late today, the president hinting at what they were telling the nation tonight. i want to talk to the american people about the state of affairs, what s going on. i want to say what i m looking forward to working on from this point on, what we ve done, and just have a conversation with the american people. with that, let s get smarter with the help of the insiders. former white house press secretary and msnbc host, jen psaki, and former chief smoke and host of symone on msnbc and peacock. michael steele, the only person at the table without a show here, we might want to talk. they ve been going to let you go first. jen, you re part of this admi
president hinting at what they were telling the nation tonight. i want to talk to the american people about the state of affairs, what s going on. i want to say what i m looking forward to working on from this point on, what we ve done, and just have a conversation with the american people. with that, let s get smarter with the help of the insiders. former white house press secretary and msnbc host, jen psaki, and former chief smoke and host of symone on msnbc and peacock. michael steele, the only person at the table without a show here, we might want to talk. they ve been going to let you go first. jen, you re part of this administration. tomorrow night comes at a pivotal moment in president biden s presidency, what does he have to tell the american people? what people are going to get tomorrow night s big, progressive, fold joe biden. what does that mean? it means they know that one of the biggest challenges right now is that they ve done a lot of stuff, accom
results? and face-to-face with a killer. a professor describing his encounter with michigan state university gunman and the quick thinking that may have saved lives. plus, a major recall of tesla cars. the car discovered a problem with the self-driving feature. what you need to do if you happen to own one of these vehicles. welcome. we start with trump speaking about the unidentified object shot out of the sky. president biden says nothing suggests these objects are related to china s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance objects from any other country but we should note the u.s. has not yet been able to recover any of the debris from the three objects shot down over the weekend because of remote locations and severe weather. president biden also said he hopes to speak with chinese president xi jinping soon although we should also note attempts by top u.s. officials to speak to their chinese counterparts have been rebuffed in recent days. let s get straight to cn
new numbers on the unprecedented number of migrants along the u.s./mexico border. i ll talk to an official from one border city about what s going on and what they need. and new audio into outfront of putin s forces turning on each other as there are reports of a strike on a military base deep inside russia. let s go outfront. good evening. i m sara sidner in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, worst winter storm ever. that s from new york officials describing this christmas weekend blizzard that pummelled areas upstate. and the death toll is rising, at least 27 deaths across the region now being blamed on the storm, surpassing the death toll from a historic blizzard 45 years ago. it was just a horrible situation, the worst storm i ve ever seen. it s the first time any of us can remember situations where we felt truly helpless. the blizzard burying buffalo and other parts of upstate new york under more than 4 feet of snow. and the region still bracing for even m