alexandria hoff following it all and joins me here onset. alex. alex: senator jody ernst started and there s about 2,000 iowans and one thousand that come from the charity fundraisers and cattle calls some put it for gop hopefuls that want to connect and carve out their brand. i scare the dickens out of the radical left and joe biden. leadership is not about virtue, signaling or building a brand, leadership is ultimately about results. we have a battle to fight in 2024. let me fight that good fight for you. alex: well former vice president mike pence took a ride himself. who knew? gearing up for presidential announcement which will come on wednesday in iowa according to ap, same day as multiple results have north dakota governor doug bergum entering the race. former new hampshire governor chris christie will announce run on tuesday. here is pence talking about the week ahead. i have every confidence that voters in iowa and around the country will take time to think ha
now i m being told that is actually a plane after the strike of a balloon and then the balloon then losing shape, going down. security analyst is back with us. juliette, maybe your eyeballs are more trained than mine. we can at least see, perhaps, with a tighter view it looked like that balloon was disintegrating, as we heard an eyewitness describe earlier. can you decipher what s going on here for me? i hear your doorbell. i m sorry. so you ve got the look, the f-22 or f-15, we don t know which ones yet, we ll get a debrief from the pentagon, from areas in the carolinas, the missile would have been launched from them. so what you re seeing on the bottom side is the airplane, what we re seeing now. what you saw was the airplane, not the balloon. and i don t know if we have images of the direct hit. so the balloon is now so this is the important thing for people to remember. the balloon is balloon and cargo. we want the cargo. it s ours now. sorry, chinese, it s ours now
day, another allegation of lying has been levelled against george santos and every new week, if not every new day, kevin mccarthy has been asked what are you going to do about george santos? did you meet with santos today? i did. what was that about? if every single new person brought into congress was elected by their constituent, what their constituents had done was lend their voice to the american public so those members can all serve on committee. are you standing by him? if you resign, that could cost you a seat. no. you know why i m standing by him? because his constituents voted for him. yeah, we will be done with all committees. i never know about his resume or not, but i always have a few questions. who has more power? joe biden or george santos? that s just some of the times he s been asked about it. now it appears that mccarthy might have done something about george santos after a closed door meeting with the speaker yesterday, today, george santo
On their way to the u. S. Right now five americans held hostage in iran are free after the Biden Administration unfreezes 6 billion of iranian oil money, but the u. S. Is imposing new sanctions on iranian agencies and officials with connections to another detained american. We have details. Hunter biden now suing the irs. The president s son says agents illegally released his personal information. He claims the agency failed to protect his private records. Plus, a former Department Of Justice official and donald trump ally asking a federal judge to move his Georgia Election subversion case to federal court. How the judge is now reacting. We are following thinks major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. Here in a few hours five americans who were wrongfully detained in iran will be back on u. S. Soil for the first time in years. Their plane in the air as we speak. It left from qatar a bit ago and President Biden has spoken to each of their families, families