declared a public emergency. in massachusetts, a military base now converted to migrant housing. mercedes schlapp, joe concha and juan williams are standing by. first to peter doocy. good afternoon. in the press room, they talk about these flights in serious terms. we heard about the president. he was trying to laugh off the idea. saying that if desantis will send a flight to delaware, desantis should tag along. any comment to migrants to delaware? he should come visit. we have a beautiful shore. just before that, the white house claimed that they were willing to engage leaders in texas and florida who have been bussing migrants points north to make a point about the burdens and influx of migrants can have on small towns. a cool premeditated political stunt. that is not what that is what they re doing. and so we re always happy to have conversations about ways to further improve border processing. even though she says they re happy to have conversations, she adm
What are you guys going to do now, claudio . Were going to stay here, find shelter. Because weve been hearing the news its going to come back and hit us again. And would have had nobody would have had nowhere to go. So were going to stay here and try to protect ourselves. Try to protect my kids. And try to try to last through this storm. I dont know if its going to get worse or not. But we want to be safe. I want my family to be safe. So i guess were going to stay here until everything is over. Claudio, were glad youre okay. Hug your kids and wife for us. Thank you so much for joining us here on cnn. Good luck to you. Best of luck. All right, thank you, sir. Thank you. Jamie baxter, weve got jamie by phone again. Technical issues, storm, hes stranded in his apartment with neighbors tonight. Havent really tried the police because i know that theyve been swamped and the red cross is swamped, as well. So we dont really know who to call. It seems like we put out the word for help and we si
their objects have been taken down. they haven t said that. maybe they told the government and they haven t told us. secrecy seems to be paramount here while there s a lot of demands for transparency. robert gibbs, as a former white house press secretary, after so much criticism over them permitting the china balloon to cross the country and not be shot down until it got to the atlantic and then senators in both parties then said, they had a reason to do that because they did retrieve intelligence and now they have the key sensors, they have a good number of electronics. they may get more from that than they would have from shooting it down. they were collecting data as it was flying. in the three small objects, was this overkill? general milley said the first missile didn t take it down. they had to shoot two at it. that s a lot of money to spend on launching and then trying to
it off. eric: in that case, do you think those party congress is over and we could see a potential missile launch or do you think of jungle disk on the message? keep in mind, while we haven t seen a missile launch we did just the a successful test firing where the missile didn t actually fly but if the test firing of a solid fuel engine and that is critically important because the north koreans are progressing in their capability from liquid fuel to solid fuel which means they can launch the missiles much faster and often the japanese and the south koreans get much less time in terms of warning. they are progressing their capability. eric: doesn t that make it harder to find. yes, it makes it easier for the koreans to put them on a mobile launching and makes it towards for us to take out. time is not on our side here and the top talk is necessary to actually help our diplomacy and
even though the missile didn t pose a direct threat, it certainly does underscore the escalating situation here. there are indications rights now according to south korea s intelligence service, north korea could be making final preparations for their sixth nuclear test. for months the government has been saying they could do it at any moment with very little notice. we have to watch closely to see what else happens here. will ripley, appreciate your reporting. thank you so much. when we come back, president trump today defending his pardon of sheriff joe arpaio. we ll speak to a man who spent a year in arpaio s tent jail and see what he has to say about the pardon. s cuse me. mind if i sit here? not if you want your phone to work. let me guess, you can t livestream your lobster roll. and my mobile pay isn t connecting and i just got an unlimited plan. right plan, wrong network. you see verizon has america s largest most reliable 4g lte network and now unlimited plans start at $40