that does it for us this hour katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur, after a two-week break, congress is back to work, and boy is there a lot to do there is the debt ceiling, which still has not been raised. speaker mccarthy is in new york city today, courting wall street and arguing massive cuts to spending will be good for everyone he wants to get rid of a lot, and he s playing a game of chicken with the white house we re going to explain what mccarthy is doing by showing up in manhattan and why the speaker is betting president joe biden will ultimately negotiate. also here in new york, congressman jim jordan and the house judiciary committee are here the chair held a so-called field hearing on crime today jordan called it powerful. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg just called it a slap in the face to the nypd we also have news on the senate side senators mitch mcconnell and john fetterman are back in washington after a respected medical can m
their fight with d.a. bragg, one republican tweeting the city is no longer safe if that s true, why aren t the d.a., the mayor or the police commissioner on the witness list state secrets, private leaked by an airman barely old enough to buy a beer as congress returns to the hill, full of fury over it all, what are they prepared to do about it attorneys for the family of a black teenager demanding justice for what they call a horrendous and unjust find shooting the 16-year-old victim recovering in the hospital after being shot in the head for doing nothing but showing up at the wrong address. we begin right here in new york where former president donald trump s congressional allies are taking their fight to manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s back yard with a field hearing they say is about crime. democrats call it a political stunt, an excuse for jim jordan and other republicans to undermine the prosecution of donald trump here in manhattan, the scales of justice are weighe
there s dead can worms and fish all throughout this water. something i just discovered is that if you scrape the creek bed, it s like chemicals coming out of the ground. if you come here, i want to just show this to you. i don t know if you can see this in the camera, but watch this. you can just see that chemical pop out of the creek. this is disgusting. remediation of the water in the direct area of the spill is going to the take some time. just as it is taking some time to deal with the dirt. this is not a simple process. we encourage you people to continue to avoid that area. maria: then, communist china flexing its muscles at the munich security conference this weekend, blaming the u.s. for strain thed relations despite a sophisticated spy craft traveling above america for a week, recording images of u.s. military installations. but despite painstaking, 40-year-high inflation, cancerous materials dispersed in ohio and america under surveillance from communist china, th
we re not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we ll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn t veer into conflict. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare. seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon incident. one ises the only it is the only one of the few visible examples we ve seen of a much broader effort by china which views the united states as its major competitor to collect information including within the u.s. homeland. there has been extensive activity, and there continues to this day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part
. the crazy thing about this is that this is protective net. that s crazy. wow. look at that. yeah. it looks like it s water. geez. that is pretty crazy. good morning, everyone. we re so happy you re with us on assignment in los angeles. the northeast, is bracing for anarctic blast. extreme wind chills set to be the lowest in decades. this morning, the areas impacted by the cold temperatures. we ll take you live to boston. plus, a suspended chinese spy balloon the size of three buses has been seen hovering over usair space. where it was just spotted and what the pentagon plans to do now. plus this they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced. that is congresswoman omar. she has been removed from the house foreign affairs committee. democrats accusing republicans of racism. what kevin mccarthy is staying ahead. we do begin this hour with extreme arctic weather unleashing some of the coldest temperatures the northeast has seen in decades. forecasters ar