welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
should he run again? we will take a look at it. [laughter] bipartisan group of senators say they have reached an agreement on a framework for a bill on gun control. the bill would include a federal grant program to encourage more states to pass so-called red flag laws. got a black sideline, full head of steam and a touchdown and the it philadelphia stars win their fourth straight. come on over down to the corner sister and my brother every different color. feel that sunshine. steve: good morning, atlanta, georgia, this is your 6:01 wake-up call. boy it s going to be a beautiful day today. go outside and live it up 75 degrees. it s nice and clear. you re going for a daytime high in the 90 s. lower 90 s, probably a little humidity on this june 13th, 2022. ainsley: i love atlanta. i have just such a love for that city because it s close to where i grew up in south carolina. that was the big city. we gold there christmas time because it was decorated and
during some of these hearings up on capitol hill this past week you had the twitter hearing. that was obviously tailor made for an audience of one. remember the old audience of one, donald trump. the so-called weaponization subcommittee hearing also seemed to be going after old trump grudges and be so on. i just wondered, is this what democrats were hoping for? well, it is certainly the reality that trump and specifically trumpism is come to nagt the current republican party and especially the republican party that is now has control of the house of representatives. we saw it when it took kevin mccarthy 15 times to get the speakership and each and every single time he had to sell out and, you know, put together a corrupt garng, each and every time because the maga extremist didn t think he was maga extremist enough so he had to prove them otherwise. but i do think it s dangerous
so many stories about the january 6th commission, hearings up on capitol hill. and that pretty much is all they talked about yesterday on the sunday shows. ainsley: yeah, abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, they ignored that assassination attempt. look at that. steve: how is that possible? ainsley: only one who did it was fox news sunday. they were focusing on the january 6th congressional hearings. a former abc news executive was hired to help produce that event. steve: right. and there you can see some of the group ruth sent us, i believe that s the group that was marching in front of justice or rather yeah, justice kavanaugh s house, it s hard to keep them straight. ainsley: protested all of them. steve: the group that is planning to shut down the area around the supreme court, shut down d.c., that s the same group that held a vigil outside sam alito s home on may 9th. that could be what we are looking at. actually, that s kavanaugh s house after the u.s. supreme
thank you very much. thanks, mr. mayor. heather nauert, talk being a blizzard of news. talk being a blizzard on capitol hill. while you were sleeping, texas republican pete sessions dropping his bid to become the next house majority leader. he says it s for the good of the republican party. that move now leaves majority whip kevin mccarthy the sole candidate to replace eric cantor, who is stepping down at the end of july. the vote is set for june 19. that s nine days after cantor lost his virginia primary race. president obama found out about the v.a. scandal by watching the news, right? i believe we learned about them through the report. there is a new report that was just released and it finds that the obama administration knew about the v.a. secret waiting list for years. that s because the v.a. s inspector general actually conducted an internal investigation on a hospital in