crohn s disease, et cetera. start at 45 to 76 for most people. get screened with a colonoscopy or there are other tests, ages 76 to 85, talk about whether you should be getting screened. all right. some good advice and guidance. thank you. it is the top of the o hare on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. president biden has finally addressed the national security mystery tens of thousands of feet in the skies. the three unidentified flying objects american fighter jets shot down last weekend. a move never seen before from the u.s. military. he spoke after days of bipartisan calls that he should share more with the american people about the concerns. the president says his experts do not think the aerial objects are chinese spy balloons like the one brought down off the coast of south carolina. he added the best guess since no debris has yet been recovered is that the mystery objects are tied to private research. i want t
what were they? how much has been recovered. do we definitively know the level of threat they posed or lack thereof. bipartisan critics have been saying there s plenty that isn t classified that the american public has a right to know, and we are now waiting, as you see, for the president to come to that podium and begin. but in the meantime, let s talk to nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, along with nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles and robert gibbs, former obama press secretary and an msnbc political analyst. robert, let me start with you, you know the criticism has been out there, the pressure the white house has been under, you have been in the white house when a president was under pressure. what does he need to deliver right now? well, i think the more than people want to know what level of new information we have about the three objects that have been shot down recently. i also think the president needs to outline what our post
we ll leave that at that. before announcing sentence on these cases with regard to all of the other pending cases, are any of them here in kco collite? i believe some of them are, and have been in buford and other places. we may have worn out our welcome here. and i will thank all of the sheriff s office, and i know that mr. harpootlian has sacrificed many, many things, and to have the attorney general here, mr. alan wilson, to be here along with everyone else, it has been quite a sacrifice, but there are other victims whose cases deserve to be heard. and this case has jumped some of those other cases, perhaps jumped it because of the case assaulting the integrity of the judicial integrity of our state, and even in this trial, the law enforcement have been maligned for the past five or six weeks by one who had access to the wheel of justice to be able to deflect the investigation and as the evidence has pointed out in this case, looming storm that mr. waters talked about.
good thursday morning i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning out of michigan. cnn learning disturbing details about a plot aimed at killing jewish elected officials in the state. among those targeted the michigan attorney general. we ll break down the details of that plot. coming up. plus today a pennsylvania man is expected in court after investigators say he hid explosives inside his luggage headed for orlando. investigators arrested him after he fled the airport. the latest on that case and the growing skcrutiny facing the aviation industry. and meeting with sergey lavrov for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. we ll bring that conversation to you. we want to begin with the breaking news out of michigan. the state s attorney general confirming she was one of the targets in a plot to kill jewish elected officials in that state. polo sandoval and john miller joining us now. polo, first tell us the details of the plot as
homes of top current and former leaders. some blame the official, some blame the entire system. we ll dig into what is broken and how it might be fixed. and our exclusive reporting this hour on congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. could the conservative fire brand find her way on to the presidential ticket? she certainly thinks so. more on that in a moment. but we do start this hour with the major escalation in the support for ukraine and what it could mean for the war with russia. in just the last hour, president biden said the united states will send 31 abrams tanks to the battlefield along with providing supplies and training needed to operate them it s a complex piece of machinery ask it comes a after weeks of debate over whether the tanks would be effective and it s happening this the face of repeated warnings from moscow that the move would be seen as a dangerous provocation. putin expected europe and the united states to weaken our resolve. he want anded our sup