today. see you back here monday, same time, same place, 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now good morning it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific any minute now attorney general merrick garland is expected to make a major announcement about charges against dozens of mexican drug cartels leaders and members. also the suspect in the biggest leak of military intelligence in decades appeared in court last hour what we re learning about how the suspected leaker got access to the classified documents. and breaking just moments anegotiation the legal battle over the abortion pill headed to the supreme court. and we are live in south florida where officials are assessing millions of dollars in damage from massive flooding after historic 26-inch rainfall. and we begin this hour with breaking news out of the department of justice. there you see the podium set up. two senior law enforcement
the republican presidential primary, we will look at who, and what is their chance to defeat the former president. and later on this hour, from getting cops called on her to a shout out from, of all places, yale, i m going to speak to nine-year-old bobbi wilson whose fascination with lanternflies made one neighbor suspicious but has made her family very proud. that s ahead this hour as well. we want to begin though once again with the fallout from the chinese spy balloon shot out of this guy off the carolina coast. beijing condemning the move to bring down the balloon. this is happening as u.s. senior government officials confirm the chinese balloon crossed into the u.s. at least three different times during the trump administration s. i wanna bring in msnbc national security analyst nick watt as well. george, let me start with you on this. when you are there in myrtle beach. what have you been seeing? good afternoon, yasmin. we know military operations to recover the bal
did you discuss it at all? according to these new facts you re testifying to? i don t believe so. did you have any conversation with her? oh, yeah. had you had a conversation did you have a conversation with paul about the dogs, about cash s tail prior to going down there? prior to going down there? i don t did i have a conversation with paul about cash about cash and some problem with his tail prior to going down there. did you have any knowledge of that prior to going down there? i m not sure. as i sit here today, i don t recall that, but i don t i don t think so. when you first arrived in the golf cart, where did you pull up to? i pulled up right where maggie was. which is where? she was standing in the spot where she could see in between the chicken coop and the storage room of the kennels. where the dogs were back up in those pines behind the kennels to the left of the chicken coop. and what did you do after that? i went back to the ho
stories we re watching today the first is joe biden heading to monterey park, california the president will deliver remarks on gun safety. we are also following a developing situation out of ukraine involving a u.s. intelligence aircraft that was forced down by russian war planes but we start today with the race to the bottom in the republic primary the leading contenders for the presidential nomination making clear that they will not stand with the fledgeling democracy. a statement from ron desantis in response to a questionnaire than none other than fox news and america s most prominent putin defender tucker carlson reads in quote, while the u.s. has many vital national interests, securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the chinese communist party, becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia is not
presidential inauguration. at this crucial mile marker it s important to stare into the mirror of who we really are as a country. two years after lies and conspiracies about trump s big loss led to, quote, medieval combat on the steps of the u.s. capitol between law enforcement and trump supporters. those very same lies that inspired that attack two years ago are now deeply embedded in the politics of the gop. they are the single animating principle behind everything that happens in one of the country s two major political parties. it is in large part due to the fact that the man who, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame in the attack as january 6th select committee member liz cheney put it that would be twice impeached president trump himself as well as his top lieutenants remain the dominant force in the gop. and they insist on continuing to gaslight americans on what actually happened on january 6th to this day, to this hour on this day. just yeste