white house press briefing for reaction from the white house, as well as john kirby, actually, the spokesperson. china is pushing back, accusing the u.s. of a smear campaign, so how will the white house respond? we are going to first start with this fox news alert. john: america s crime crisis continues to plague residents in democratic-led cities from coast to coast, including here in the nation s capital, innocent civilians fight off violent felons and brazen teens who face no consequences for terrorizing america s streets. sandra: the latest incident, 82-year-old grandmother trying to make her way to receive chemotherapy, forced to fight off a vicious juvenile trying to carjack her. john: what a brave individual that guy was. but not stopping the d.c. far left city council overhauling the criminal code, critics say will put more criminals on the dangerous streets and supposed to be the crown jewel of american exceptionallism. sandra: jeff flock on a new bill in ill
you, mike. that s right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it s really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. conflict is always a last resort. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn t want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. would you support that. if the american people support this, the congress will follow. so, you re saying that the option to authorize war powe
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. closer, but to a deal or to a default. kevin mccarthy herds a bill through the house. it s guaranteed to go nowhere in the united states senate and far from certain to break the white house s negotiating promise. plus, ament here because donald trump raped me. e..en jean carroll is back on the witness stand after detailing an attack by the former president nearly two decades ago in a dressing room. and the mouse strikes back. disney makes ron desantis a defendant as the governor finds the polling gap between him and trump getting wider. up up first, a cross roads moment for president biden and house republicans. today a new number says the country is growing more slowly. but not as to dive into a recession. 12.1%, that s how fast the economy expanded in the first quarter. it falls off as you see the breakneck pace from the end of 2022. but the good from the report is very go
happening right now, the suspected leaker in court. federal prosecutors argue that jack teixeira should remain behind bars. plus a sharp slowdown. new data showing the fed s rate hikes could get hamper the u.s. economy. now, that was the plan, but is the fight against inflation going too far? today s news not helping to calm the fears. a furious manhunt in mississippi. three inmates still missing, one inmate debt, but not before killing another man while on the run. authorities worry they could slip through the net now. they re following these major developing stories and many more, automatic coming right here to cnn news central. any moment now the air national guardsman accused of leaking highly classified documents, is due in federal court. prosecutors are set to argue that 21-year-old jax teixeira still poses a great threat to national security and he should be kept in custody. in a late-night filing, prosecutors alleged he may have still have access to hundreds
Newsroom. We begin this hour with more Breaking News. Yet another shootdown of a highaltitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in Northern Canada. President biden and canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. A u. S. Fighter jet successfully brought it down. Its not clear if this latest shootdown is related to yesterdays downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. That was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if its related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. Arlette saenz is at the white house. The president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. Doesnt sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. But obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were Reporting On Last saturday which was the shootdown of that chinese spy balloon. And now these