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
we re lucky one of those freed captives joins us right now. fell likes is an academic and activist as well as a former secretary-general of nicaragua s defense ministry. thank you so much for being here. we re glad to see you. you were arrested in 2021 while trying to campaign to replace ortega as president. you were sentenced to 13 years in prison for, quote, conspiracy to undermine national integrity. what was that day like? what was the arrest like? it was very violent. we knew that something bad was going to happen but we never imagined that not only the candidate but journalists, youth leaders, student leaders and even members of the catholic community were going to be arrested. it was extreme. you said your prison conditions were designed to break your soul but they did not succeed. tell us about that. it s incredible that in 2023
china has bill faced tough questioning during her senate confirmation hearing because of her role running a covert detention site where waterboarding was used senior republican senator john mccain has urged his colleagues to reject her. three americans held prisoner by north korea are back in the united states after a world wind diplomatic mission by washington they flew home with secretary of state mark pompei o who traveled to p.r. ahead of the upcoming summit between the two countries leaders president gul trump who went to the airport to personally welcome the men sounded a note of optimism saying that the captives release was a positive sign. it was nearly three in the morning but the u.s. president and the first lady were on hand to greet the freed captives. this is a big step forward in the rapidly warming relations between the two longtime adversaries it s also a major p.r.