tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i can t believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. it s the same technology china is flying over the united states. over sensitive nuclear facilities on the cusp of a major meeting between the two countries. i have some serious questions here. right before this major diplomatic meeting where tony blinken, our secretary of state is supposed to meet xi jinping, china picks a freakin balloon to fly over? not their version of an sr-71? no, a bo , a balloon we can all. something doesn t make sense. what particular capability is china demonstrating if this is some kind of message? we can
tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i can t believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. it s the same technology china is flying over the united states. over sensitive nuclear facilities on the cusp of a major meeting between the two countries. i have some serious questions here. right before this major diplomatic meeting where tony blinken, our secretary of state is supposed to meet xi jinping, china picks a freakin balloon to fly over? not their version of an sr-71? no, a bo , a balloon we can all. something doesn t make sense. what particular capability is china demonstrating if this is some kind of message? we can
hello and thanks for joining us. i m abby phillip here in washington. now, president biden makes it official. just moments ago, the u.s. is sending abrams tanks to ukraine. that announcement comes just hours after germany revealed that it will send its own leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. germany had been reluctant to do that but ultimately they bent to weeks of intense pressure from western allies. cnn s phil mattingly is over at the white house for us. but let s begin first with our own jim sciutto. jim, can you walk us through what we are talking about here? what are these tanks, and where are they coming from as it relates to what s going into ukraine? reporter: abby, this is a significant move and let s begin with what the capabilities are. this is a german leopard tank then you have the u.s. sending abrams as well. first thing to say about this, highly capable, it s an offensive weapon, not a defensive weapon and the ukrainians hope here, their aim is to use this as a weap
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
we have you covered on that. first to edward lawrence with how they re dealing with this latest uptick that doesn t end. edward? it doesn t seem to. the president said basically he does not immediate action that he can take that will bring gas prices back down to $3 a gallon setting up the fact that this could take awhile. the president hearing louder cries, louder voices that he needs to act and to something in order to handle inflation. we re seeing voter anger in the polls for his poll numbers. some democrats are even starting to distance themselves from the message coming out of the white house. this is what voters are looking at. gas prices at record highs again. $4.76 a gallon for regular unleaded. the price of gas has set a new record every day since may 10. this pushes up inflation, eats into every one s paychecks. now finally a change in tone. listen here to secretary janet yellen. i think i was wrong then about the path of inflation would take. there s been u