the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s got no
stories. take a look. as i ve heard today to make the opening i never got to give, i was reminded of the hail tha the employees went through and continue to go through to this day. money is accountability. we got that today from fox we re not done yet we ve got some other people wh have accountability coming towards them dominion settled it defamation lawsuit against fox news with a last-minute deal yesterday afternoon. the network agreed to pay. it s a voting machine compan more than $787 million more moments before opening statements were set to get underway fox s lawyers did not talk t reporters yesterday, but the network put out a statement, running in part, and i hope can get through this, we acknowledge the courts rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to th [inaudible we are hopeful - my professor, professor pearson, would always talk about the straight face test don t ever make an argument.
we admit we are guilty. of amplifying the voices. insane people like this guy. hello, i m mike lindell. a guy like this is given a platform. we want to make sure. when you re watching fox news. it ll make you dumber. my slippers are back in stock. take us off teltelevision. before we allow these crooks to turn. our country into a. dump, a big, massive dump we ve done our part the context of that is probably the big massive dump what was trump talking about what s that i m curious about. keep it here. probably as close as we ll get to an apology from fox news. in fact, the network put out a defiant statement on another defamation lawsuit it is facing for airing false claims about election fraud we ll have much more on that in a moment plus, the supreme court delays a decision on the abortion pill. we ll take you through what s next in the very consequential case plus, more brazen acts of gun violence in america. this time, in maine
in the united states and all around the world. i m. ed settlement, fox news will cut a $787 million check for its dominion lies but avoids having to tell the truth that trial and issue on air retractions deadline looming. we re just hours away from the u. s. supreme court s ruling on access to an abortion pill. what president could tell us about this case plus fighting flares up again in sudan s capital as both sides ignore a ceasefire agreement. and the u. n is warning of a catastrophic humanitarian classes. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us with the jury was sworn in. lawyers were ready for opening statements. but then fox news blinked, reaching a last second settlement with dominion voting systems, agreeing to pay almost $800 million to dominion about half of the initial claim for damages. in a statement, fox said, we acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion. to be false, and this settlem