president biden downplayed that balloon s significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? no, yeah, absolutely. it s the right call. i mean, it s interesting what we don t know, as you indicated, we need a lot of answers. what s very revealing though and concerning is that this we did not pick this up before it entered u.s. air space which is very similar to the historical record we were able to put together after the spy balloon transversed the entire swath of united states. we went back and looked at what s the history of chinese fleet balloons, and we found several of them that had, in
discredit the 2020 election results and his new response to a member of our team. again, all of this now because of hurricane ian with florida bracing for the impact. we ll take you live to the evacuation zone and brand-new nbc news exclusive. the explosive comments our team found from the republican running for governor in pennsylvania a couple of years ago suggesting women should be charged with murder if their get an abortion after six weeks. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me now is sahil, ashley parker, and former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant general, harry lipman. walk us through. that s right. our team has confirmed just in the last minute or two that the january 6th hearing that was expected to be held tomorrow is expected to be postponed. members have been told it will be postponed as a result of hurricane ian. that is according to our colleague who is bringing us this news right now. now, the expectation is the hearing will still happen. we don
committee. the lead starts right now. 14 pages, trump gives the january 6th committee an earful as the panel tries to legally compel the former president to testify. but he never addresses the million dollar question. plus, debate night in one of the most competitive senate races in the country, the high profile republican help that herschel walker is getting after weeks of dealing with an abortion scandal. and cnn on the record with one of the three jurors who voted against the death penalty for the gunman behind the parkland massacre. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. we begin with president trump s response to the january 6th committee. in a long letter posted to his social site, he makes no mention whether he will comply with a subpoena. in this, trump reairs a lot of grievances and repeats claims about winning the 2020 election. he blames democrats for failing to protect the capitol on january 6th. he bashes the committee for what he calls very poor television rat
documents seized from mar-a-lago. stand by. we have details. also tonight, former president trump lashes out at the january 6th select committee but doesn t reveal if he ll comply with the new subpoena from the committee. this as cnn obtains exclusive extended footage of congressional leaders trying to work around trump as they scrambled to secure the u.s. capitol during the riot. even after a week of deadly russian attacks, ukrainian forces are making major gains in the occupied kherson region, prompting russian officials to announce an evacuation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news on the battle between the u.s. justice department and the trump team over that mar-a-lago special master. cnn s senior justice correspondent, evan perez, is working the developments for us. he s got the latest information. what ar