good evening. i m bret baier. bret: breaking tonight. president biden begins the campaign swing following last night s state of the union address. he is actually speaking at this campaign event in pennsylvania in walling ford. let s listen in for a couple minutes. at that little outfit that sets interest rates, it s going to come down. [applause] it s going to come down. folks! we re cracking down on big landlords. you break antitrust laws by price fixing and driving up rents. now congress need to pass my plans to build and renovate 2 million affordable homes and apartments and bring those rents down. [cheers and applause] and by the way, my republican friends cost a lot of money and raise the deficit. by guess what? it cost the deficit $1 trillion. last guy ballooned the deficit. we passed the budget deal that would cut another trillion dollars over the next decade. they kept trying to get out of it but they finally agreed. but now it s my goal to cut the federal def
and a great show, as always, an awesome audience. i am laura ingraham. this is ingraham angle from washington tonight. thanks for joining us. biden surrenders. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, this month, americans cannot turn around without seeing a very colorful flag. it s you see it in stores, at hotels and clothing. of course, it s being pushed by celebrities. it s even hanging prominently at the white house. but there s a flag that far better represents where we re heading as a country right now, although it s a lot less flashy. you see it there. and given biden s groveling approach, china, our single greatest adversary, the white house, might as well raise it this point. now, there are so many obvious reasons why america needs to begin decoupling from. it is insane when you think about it, that we allowed manufacturing and the production of things, prescription drugs, medical devices, critical electronics and other critical parts to be controlled by, a co
and disregard them, the jury, as subjected to them, may not. the court shall not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which trump inject politics into this proceeding. jack smith then kicks off a highlight reel of trump s favorite spurious arguments, things like, trump, quotes complaints about the jury indictment and the trial date will interfere with his political activities. or trump s quote, false accusation was directed at the former president. jack smith also takes issue with some of the trump s favorite catch phrases like the injustice department or biden indictment. all of it, jack smith says, would taint a jury pool. quote, the in addition t being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury s determination of the defendant s guilt or innocence. it would be prejudicial if presented to the jury. put another way, the trump defense was, quote, repeatedly used rhetoric that made the acceptable on the campaign but not on the trial. make no mi
these types of bans could cost them in 2024? inflation cools. new data suggests the fed is winning its fight against rising prices. so now what? central bank just days away from a key meeting and a critical decision on rates. will the hikes finally come to an end? and the chatbot will see you now. new studies looking at how artificial intelligence could transform medicine. we re going to talk about what it means for you and your human doctor. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. two severely restrictive abortion bans in two republican-dominated state legislatures, nebraska and south carolina, both failed on thursday, handing unexpected victories to abortion rights advocates and highlighting this struggle within the gop on how far abortion bans should go. we saw this moment in nebraska. people moved even to tears after the so-called heartbeat act failed by just one vote. it would ban most abortions a
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we