you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let s get straight to cnn s oren liebermann at the pentagon. oren, what more are you learning? i understand you were listening to officials explain how all of this went down. what can you tell us? it started on wednesday when president joe biden gave the authorization to shoot down the chinese balloo n as soon as possible. there were tankers and others to shoot this down. it was an f-22 that fired an a 9 side wind er. the ai
primetime can t find a single victim here. it doesn t look like anybody was physically injured. doesn t look like the irs was cheated. where s the crime? a lawyer paid a woman and a business reimbursed the lawyer? that s it? then the company filed the payment as a legal expense and just threw it in the filing cabinet? but, calling a payment to a lawyer a real expense instead of a legal reimprisonment is worse than hurt here in new york. never ever put your payments in the wrong ledger. bragg calls that falsifying a misdemeanor with since when did democrats become sticklers for bookkeeping. what letter did hunter file the chinese diamond under. the biden administration took millions from china before an election, lied about it, didn t pay taxes on it. that seems a little worse. the trump organization isn t even publicly traded. and no campaign funds were used. what was trump supposed to do? write a giant sweep sized check and hand it to stormy in times square. trump is a b
indictment. bryan, how are the next 24 hours going to play out? yeah, gillian, good afternoon. obviously once the former president arrives here in new york city, he ll spend the night at his residence. and tomorrow morning around 11:00 a.m., his motorcade will come about 11. and we expect him to get his fingerprint, perhaps mug shot taken. at that point we don t expect him to be handcuffed but expect him to make his way down a hallway into a courtroom on the 15th floor. there will be a video camera in the hallway, we ll see that. trump will enter for a 2:15 arraignment, we expect it to last about 15 to 30 minutes. trump will be read his charges, presumably, going to plead not guilty and released on his own recognizance. then fly home to florida, he s set to speak about 8:15 p.m. in mar-a-lago. as far as security, new york city mayor eric adams said no credible threats to the city at this time. the city is prepared and he s not really that concerned about tomorrow. there wil
bret: but, first, breaking news tonight. the chairman of the house intelligence committee is describing president biden as a, quote: serial classified document hoarder. that comment from congressman mike turner comes after the fbi seized additional classified documents from the president s delaware home. turmoil over this scandal comments as white house chief of staff john kayleigh mcenany prepares to leave his job at the president s side. a big change in the white house now under peter doocy joins us. we learned tonight when the houses they are fully cooperating they mean with the doj because the white house coucounsel written back to james comer the oversight committee chairman saying they will work to accommodate legitimate oversight interest. they do not say they will work to accommodate all oversight interest. and that s as comer is also hoping for a response from the secret service about biden visitor information. the fbi was invited into the president s home.
control of products. they are making more money than they ve ever made. bill: opening arguments in the cop s trial are set to begin there. hello, bryan. bill, good morning. luna is mexico s highest ranking government official to be criminally charged and tried in the u.s. in the early 2000s he let mexico s federal agency akin to the f.b.i. before becoming the top law enforcement official in mexico controlling the federal police force as the secretary of public security until 2012. prosecutors say the man who led mexico s war against the drug cartels was instead accepting briefcases stuffed with tens of millions of bribes from the sinaloa cartel. in exchange luna provided second ratty intel protection and helped with smuggling at least 50,000 kilos of cocaine into the u.s. over the course of the eight-week trial there is intrigue about embarrassing and damning revelations with high ranking u.s. and mexico officials who trusted him. he served as the right-hand of the mexica