hello. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. any moment now, president biden is expected to update americans on the recent and unprecedented shootdowns of objects over north america. the president has been facing growing pressure to bring more transparency to the issue that has gripped the nation for the last month. let s get straight to jeremy diamond in washington. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is the first time we hear directly from president biden in a formal setting on the downing not only of that chinese spy balloon but the three objects brought down between friday and sunday. to get to this point, a couple of things had to happen because the white house has really been in discussions over the last several days about the wisdom, the merits of the president potentially addressing this issue. they were wary at first of making this a bigger issue than it actually is. and they were also wanting to make sure the president waited until
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
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all right now. yeah. it was awesome for, you know, she was on top of the world for a week. she was the heavyweight champ. i love, them i love their whole family. philadelphia might not have won the game, but that right there was the definition of brotherly love. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with, me i will see you at the end of tomorrow. we start tonight without late breaking, news special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith and vesta geisha and into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. now i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, and we see has not independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for documents and testimony sometime in january. this comes just one week afte
we start tonight with a late breaking news of special counsel jack smith subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith s investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, msnbc has not yet independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for a sometime in january. this comes just one week after we learned the special counsel smith subpoenaed trump s former vice president mike pence. clearly, things are heating up. beyond the fact that subpoena of the former presidents chief of staff is a huge deal on its own, mark meadows in particular is quite a potential witness. meadows was involved in the infamous phone call between trump and georgia secretary of state brian rat in which he pressured raffensperger to find 11,780 votes. meadows was in the over office with trump for a lot of t