mount china ratcheting up military pressure on taiwan beijing in your view, threatening taiwan was war yes, tipping point for correa will join us on what china will do next. also windy city winners after a fierce competition, democrats named chicago the host city of the 2024 convention. with republicans already launching attacks on chicago s high crime rate. illinois governor jaden pritzker will respond coming up on cnn prime time. good evening. i m caitlin collins. and tonight i am joined here by an all star cast of my cnn colleagues from across the network. abby phillip freed zakaria, karen friedman, agnes philo, sara sidner, anderson, cooper and sarah fisher. also going to join me live here in studio tonight, but we re going to start first, that dramatic new footage that we re getting from the mass shooting that happened at the old national bank in downtown louisville and attack that killed five people and injured eight. and i want to warn you that what you re about to see
a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his
harrowing first look at what happened on monday when police officers arrived on the scene, along with the first images of the 25 year old gunman who was an employee of that bank before he was shot and killed by law enforcement officers. louisville police released about nine minutes of the footage tonight, showing multiple angles as brave officers responded to these urgent 911 calls. what you re about to see. next is what happened when those officers arrived on the scene. go, go, go, go, go! stop! stop writing. back up, back up, back up! back up. god don t have an angle. i got him down. i think he s down. you re doing after off now. you can do the stairs down, get the officer. it s truly incredible to see that footage and all these officers were being fired upon. you can see they continue to move forward to take down the shooter. we re told that the gunman purchased that a r 15 style rifle a week ago legally from a dealership in louisville , and now the debate over guns in ame
of course the biden administration is going to be under pressure to take some kind of decisive action against this balloon that satisfies the hawks on the hill who have already been saying that the biden administration has not been harsh enough on china. it will be interesting to see how this plays out throughout the day, guys. we re going to bring you that live. anytime now the fbi could search the home of former vice president mike pence for any additional classified documents. up next i m going to speak to a bipartisan pair of congressmen who have drafted a bill to make the penalties tougher for mishandling classified material. also ahead, a killing without a known motive. a new jersey city council woman gunned down inside her own car. i will speak to a friend of hers about what they ve learned about the investigation so far. and later an italian mafia boss on the run for 16 years is finally captured. turns out he was hiding in plain sight, get this, as
floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.