reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. time for this rat pack to pack it in. thanks very much for joining me this evening. i m jim acosta. we ll be back tomorrow night. good night. your way round the hill. and now the party bosses want a meeting. they have a proposition. they want you to take a shot at the white house. not eventually, but now. - think about it, will you? narrator: well, first you ll have to get past her, the senator with decades of experience and friends in high places, already at home in the oval office. and then you ll have to get past him, a senator and bona fide war hero backed b by a mean polititical machinine. [crowd chanting indistinctly] let s say you are ready. here s the real question. is america? [dramatic music] only one way to find out. [tense music] america, president george w. bush s second term. [chatter] at war in iraq and afghanistan, teetering on the brink of a global economic crash, disillusioned, divided, and despera
we are three days away until i republicans turn out to choose their candidates . the forecast is for the temperature to feel like 30 or 40 below zero, what could possibly go wrong? fasten your seatbelts, it is going to be a bumpy night. bette davis reference on a friday night , no other show, people. that is for sure, it might be a bumpy night, republican presidential hopeful, a lot fewer of them these days. it is all eyes on iowa as we speak. the candidates make their closing argument and take pot shots at each other. ron does not beat joe biden, trump is head-to-head monica day he might be up by two points. i defeat biden by 17 points. donald trump not willing to show up on the debate stage . does he come to communities to answer questions, has he gone to all 99 counties, has he gone the nine counties? unconstitutional witchhunt . election interference at the highest level, it is a disgrace. it is interference, political interference and it is something that sho
are classified briefings on capitol hill, top republicans demanding answers from the pentagon and director of national intelligence to fill in the blanks on this timeline. senators want to know when the spycraft was picked up on radar. since the odyssey across the united states, are countries are reporting in india, philippine, taiwan and u.s. territory of guam. the one that crashed off hawaii a month ago, other recent sightings in the u.s., washington post says it is part of chinese espionage arsenal. chinese have taken old technology and married it with modern communication and observation capabilities to glean intelligence on other nation s militaries, it is a massive effort. americans want to know why the spycraft was not shot down sooner, especially if there are explosives onboard. president biden defended his actions. president biden: i told the military to shoot it down when safe to do it, they said it was unsafe over land and they could learn a lot watch being it
states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went back inside to get her phone to report t
publisher of the tabloid the national enquirer. he testified early on in the trial about a catch and kill scheme to buy and bury stories that might harm mr trump s political campaign. before deliberations began, juan merchan, thejudge presiding over the trial, told jurors they should set aside whatever bias they might have about mr trump, and only consider the evidence presented in court. during the six week trial, the jurors heard from 22 witnesses, including miss daniels who described in detail the 2006 sexual encounter she says she had with the former president and from michael cohen, donald trump s former attorney and fixer, who paid ms daniels $130,000 to allegedly buy her silence shortly before the 2016 presidential election. the defence argued the case was built on lies told by mr cohen a point mr trump echoed while speaking earlier. mother teresa could not be these mother teresa could not be these charges. mother teresa could not be these charges. these -