administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understan
the hard part, legislating, governing starts now. news out of newport news, virginia, a 6-year-old fired a shot into a teacher. kohberger charged with the murders, may have cased the scene of the crime for months. i do believe he has an ego big enough to think that he had outsmarted the system. harry s memoir has leaked. the excerpts are shocking the u.k. and there are more revelations to come. i m pamela brown in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom. thank you so much for being here. the white house says president biden has called congressman kevin mccarthy to congratulate him on becoming speaker of the house. the california republican finally got his gavel well after 1:00 in the morning on the 15th vote. after the previous round, mccarthy went straight to the man standing in his way, fell le republican congressman matt gaetz who denied him the single remaining yes vote he needed. and then watch this. republican mike rogers lunging at matt gaetz, havin
event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democraticment i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. tonight we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican-led house of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country. and that is part of what is driving their legislative ag
pre-autopsies. sometimes, people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people, working people, who will be voting democratic. i think again, with democrats have got to do is contrasts their economic plan with the republican. tonight, we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican that out of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country, and that is part of what is driving their legislative agenda. it s important to note that the party that runs the house typically engages in two types of legislation. one is built purely around messaging and firing of the base. democrats, for instance, did that with sweeping gun reform measures, even though they need to build a past would not even get 50 votes in t
also based on impact. and when you have very large individuals moving at surprisingly fast speeds, you know, the resulting collision results in the release of a tremendous amount of kinetic energy. and although the nfl has, you know, gone to great lengths to try and change some of the rules to, you know, potentially make it safer, the fans come for these impacts. you know, the terminology in the sport, you know, revolves around hits. you know, commentators talk about defensive backs blowing up receivers to try and break up passes. so it is inherently a violent sport, and although rule changes and some equipment changes can make it safer, you can t make football safe. and the nfl acknowledges there was an increase in concussions. do you think it s possible that some of these injuries are just underreported? is the nfl doing enough? well, it s hard to know