hill, wrong track, disaster, hard times on both sides of the aisles. ashley: that is how americans feel but alexandria hoff with a brand-new tweet from the president who is getting a lot of reaction this morning, hi, alex. the message from the white house is don t worry about those hard times in uncertainty about the bank account because a person is feeling positive. i don t make my word as biden i ve never been more optimistic about america s future than today. the president takes the online because those were not biden s 71% of plain old americans believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction. according to nbc news poll. 60% said their income is falling behind the cost of living. omar president and ceo bill simon. we have to get this inflation under control. another year of high single digit, low double-digit inflation and we are going to be in a world of hurt because inflation hurts 100% of the population. a recession might hurt 2%, 3% that have lost their job
long journey ends after the u.s. military shoots it down. . we ll look at the job lies ahead as crews work to recover the instruments carried by the balloon, china reacts with china adding an already strained relationship between washington and beijing. live in hong kong and the political fall-out democrats defend the president against republicans who argued biden waited too long. . . . live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with leila hurruck. u.s. military is savage operations are underway right now in shallow waters off the coast of south carolina, where a suspected chinese spy balloon crashed after shot down by a fighter jet on saturday. a reaction from the chinese government has been swift and angry. a foreign ministry statement accused washington of overreacting to a civilian unmanned air ship and the chinese defense ministry warned it reserve theed the right to use, quote, necessary means to deal with similar situations but washington has been skeptical and
united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. spy balloon down. a recovery effort now underway after fighter jets launched a precision strike. cnn has reporters across the globe on the latest developments. plus parts of the u.s. finally warming up, this after record-breaking freezing temperatures, the coldest in decades in some areas. we ll look at when people can see relief. and basketball superstar lebron james continues to chip away at the nba s all-time scoring record. we ll break down his latest game with cnn sports coy wire. you re about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u.s. missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc in the u.s. last week. have a look. it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up that it took a few seconds of the sound of the blast
democrats would agree that our border is wide open. it s almost impossible to ignore the unprecedented numbers of migrant encounters. we are averaging 2,450 a day. that s 300,000 known got aways. the amount of drugs seized is more than seized in all of 2019 and 2022 combines. enough to kill he american. yes, that s you. the border crossers evading our own acts up 40% in the del rio sector alone. it makes total sense that the republicans would choose the border as the first place to hold hearings. with these hard facts, both sides would have to agree there is a problem. and the point of contention would be on how to solve the problem. we can agree on that, right? no. the first hearings will have the extreme maga faction of the republican party. many republicans in congress seem intent on demonizing migrant families and asylum seekers portraying them as violent criminals. we keep hearing that the border is open and biden caused this crisis. we don t see that. we experie
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