district attorney bragg claims the former president misrepresented the payments as legal services. a fact, his attorney did pay daniels. top house republicans are again demanding that bragg hand over documents related to the investigation and testify in person on friday of this week. house oversight chair james comer calls the case a political stunt and says alvin bragg cannot defy congress. unfortunately for mr. bragg he doesn t have the luxury to determine whether or not he can comply with congressional requests. if there was a reason for prosecution, it should be done by the department of justice on the federal level. we believe it s a political stunt by mr. bragg. when you look at what we believe the role of the manhattan d.a. should be is to fight crime. harris: with this will they or won t they indict tumble phase dragging on some watching this unfold say it is all helping trump. i think this is a colossal mistake if they bring these charges. it is not going
it s the top of the hour in cnn newsroom. we re following multi-. concerns about that chinese spy balloon hovering over the u.s. secretary blinken just postponed his stop in china. the pentagon is about the size of three buses. it s huge. it was spotted soaring over montana at 60,000 feet. just moments ago the balloon was spotted over columbia, missouri. the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area. despite growing calls to shoot it down, for now president biden is opting against that. the chinese are saying it s a weather balloon that blew off course. we re aware of the statement. the fact is we know it s a surveillance balloon. i can t be more specific than that. we know the balloon has violated u.s. air space and international law which is unacceptable. we ve conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. john miller is here with us, cnn s intelligence analyst and kylie atwood. tell us abo
strict pollution standard ever on american cars. that will force enormous changes in our car makers and in our garages. limits on cars and trucks. whether you like the news or not, safe to say it s a win for this guy, president xi of china. he has 75% of the world s lithium ion battery manufacturing. smart thinking, right? as well as most of the reserves of the metals needed to produce them. so today though here s the epa administrator at the white house and his response to that. this proposal doesn t kick in till model year 27. so we ve got some years to ramp up. we hope we can take advantage of that runway and follow the investments of historic legislation to bring manufacturing, especially battery manufacturing here domestically. brian kilmeade and connell mcshane here we. first grady trimble covering this live from the white house. hi, grady. the biden administration says the proposed regulations will get co2 emissions out of the air by getting more americans in ele
as we wait this today. good morning, everybody. 9:00 in new york. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is good to be with you again. secretary mayokas will go before the house homeland security committee at the top of the hour and appeared before the senate yesterday. it reignited republican calls to remove him from office. he said the expiration of title 42 that begins in may will fuel a surge of illegal crossings. one estimate putting the number at 11,000 a day. mayokas did not dispute that number. dana: lawmakers pressed him on reports that migrant children are being forced to work at factories and slaughterhouses. watch here. have you seen this report from the new york times migrant children work brutal jobs across the united states? have you seen this? i have. let me share with you what we are doing. have you seen these numbers? reports of trafficking and abuse of migrant children. you can see a massive surge that begi
bank preparing for work monday morning, one of their colleagues opened fire. i opened the door to see where he s at and i see him shooting. i took off and run out the front door. we heard a click and the lady turned around and said what the hell and he started shooting. five people and the shooter himself were killed. among the dead, a close friend of the governor of kentucky. among more than half a dozen wounded. a police officer, nicholas wilt, shot in the head. he arrived within minutes when the first shot was fired. i want to thank them, our first responders and police officers, responding and doing their best. thank you, y all. the shooter live streamed the attack on instagram. he was being told being let go by the bank. this is the only time i will mention the suspect s name in this case. the suspect has been identified as conner sturgeon. white male, 23 years of age, who was employed at old national bank. his weapon of choice was a rifle. now, nicholas wi