tonight, straight from the source, joe manchin is an outgoing senator. but is he also an outgoing democrat? i asked him that question directly tonight as he now says that he would consider a bid for the white house while insisting he is not going to be a spoiler. president biden just wrapped up a crucial press conference in san francisco after meeting with china s president and fielding questions about israel s war with hamas, backing up israel s claim that there s a hamas command and control center beneath the largest hospital in gaza. nikki haley partially walking back a campaign pledge made just yesterday after setting off a firestorm over suggesting a ban on anonymous social media users. this is the source. tonight, we begin with our one on one with senator joe manchin who is not running for re-election in the senate but considering running for president. amid a lot of speculation about what he has planned next, he is openly acknowledging that he is, quote absolut
good morning, we re happy you re with us this morning. welcome to early start , i m zoraida sambolin. we re bringing you the news a to z, get it? big story in d.c., roger clemens to be judged by a different group of people, baseball writers, the men and women who choose the hall of famers after he was acquitted on all of the charges in his perjury trial yesterday. the rocket denying all along he ever used performance enhancing drugs. yesterday his attorney insisted again that his legendary pitching career is not tainted. i hope those in the public that made up their mind before there was a trial will now back up and entertain the possibility of what he has always said, using steroid and hgh is cheating and totally contrary to his entire career. joe johns is live in washington and so, joe, long fight, four years, millions spent. big investigation. big prosecution and i suppose a big headline today a bad two weeks for the doj, first john edwards and now this. it has be
reporter: i m just hearing you now, anderson. what i can tell you is that the japanese government is saying that they believe the flying vessel from north korea, they did detect it and that it was in the air for just over one minute. now, the plan was that if that flew over japanese territory, if the rocket broke up and started to threaten this land, that the patriot missile you see behind me, it s an intercepter missile, land-to-air, that it would fire off and that it potentially would with try to take some of those pieces down. that was not the case, because the rocket then in just over one minute did break up, according to the japanese government, and then fell harmlessly into the sea. at this point, japanese security meeting is taking place and they expect to have some sort of guidance after that meeting wraps up, some time this morning here in tokyo, anderson. kyung lah, appreciate the reporting on that. we re going to check in with our correspondent, stan grant, who