this time over canada and alaska. lawmakers are demanding answers one week after a spy balloon sparked this diplomatic crisis. i ll talk to the ranking member of the house committee, jim hines of connecticut. plus, dividing lines. president biden targets the gop on cutting medicare and social security. there s a lot of republicans whose dream is to cut social security and medicare. let me say this if that s your dream, i m your nightmare. republicans argue they are under awac from a left-wing culture war. the dividing line in america is no longer right or left. the choice is between normal or crazy. i ll talk to phil murphy of new jersey and spencer cox of utah, about the challenges of bridging america s deep partisan divide. and investigating trump. i m the only one they go after. the facts warranted prosecution. he says donald trump should face criminal charges and design in protest when the manhattan attorney did not act. the lead attorney who worked on
cpac s dominated this year by trump loyalists, like representative jim jordan, marjorie taylor greene, and matt gates, kari lake a prominent election denier, who lost the governor s race in arizona last december was also a guest speaker. so is steve bannon, and pillow salesman mike redell. key republican leaders like house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and rnc chair woman did not take part in cpac this week. meanwhile, other possible presidential candidates sat out the conference in favor of a different event this weekend. a sign of how the republican party remains splintered with some of its members trying to chart a new path forward, and leave donald trump far behind. instead of cpac, florida governor ron desantis, former vice president mike pence, south carolina senator tim scott, and new hampshire governor chris sununu opted to attend a private retreat with donors hosted by the conservative organization club for growth. another group has
that democrat josh shapiro when the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq pennsylvania s are likely to gain new protections and police reform, gun control measures, green energy measures, could be on the table. in short, as we d like to say every time on this show, every election matters when the vote count. coming up on the second hour of ayman, breaking news, a third high altitude object has been found. this one in northern canada. plus, president biden goes on offense after a state of the union effect and republicans are running scared. undermining democracy. new conservative majority on the north carolina supreme court might overrule past decisions that protected voting rights. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. we begin this hour with our breaking coverage of a third unidentified object, shot down over north america
the other two won the races by 50 and 75 points. for months on this show, we have been covering the chaos that ensued when due to a series of unexpected issues, three seats won by democrats in the november elections were left vacant. pennsylvania republicans took that opportunity to in effect, steal their way to a majority in the state house. clearly ignoring the will of the people by pretending that they had a majority while those seats remained unfilled. but now that those special elections have been held and the winner settled, it seems like a more drama free environment will be coming into effect because democrats will now control the commonwealth s legislature for the first time in a dozen years as we mentioned earlier. and it is coupled with the fact that democrat josh shapiro won the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq
after the u.s. military shot down that chinese spy balloon off the south carolina coast after it flew across the united states. we have more breaking, news now, the fbi has discovered an additional classified document with former vice president indiana s home. the search comes as former vice president mike pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel, investigating donald trump s efforts to stay in office after the 20. 20 election, as well as his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. earlier today trump s former personal attorney michael cohen told msnbc donald trump should be worried about this. i think he is panicking. however, what he is very good at is hiding it. anyone that is in the room with him would be able to attest to things that i had seen in the past which is donald really losing it. but, in front of the camera, he is calm, cool, and collected because he is a sociopath. we ll have more on this breaking developments and that object shot down by u.s. mi