to the states and over key military bases, it was a citizen, a citizen that spotted it wednesday in montana, by the way the air force base in montana is where we keep icbms in combat ready minuteman missiles. so what is with the delay, what kind of intel did china get before the military shot down the balloon. these are all questions republicans want answers to. i think it s an open question this is not become public if the administration had not briefed the matter to congress thursday afternoon after was about to become public. whether the president would shutdown the balloon once he got over the atlantic ocean. the world was watching this just like they were watching the disaster withdraw in afghanistan were service members lost their lives and tens of billions of dollars of equipment were left behind is been disaster to disaster, people deserve ans answers. don t fall for the chinese communist party charm offensive the bedtime story that they tell out of touch global
am taking the train. kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. cnn newsroom starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key faa safety system went down earlier this morning, that led to some scrambling from coast to coast. here is where we stand at this hour, the faa says it is set to resume more flight departures this hour, but in terms of the backlog, the damage that we re seeing, the delays and cancellations, understandably rising by the minute. new york lines are growing, atlanta and chicago delay warnings taking over departure screens. they may be the lucky ones stuck in the airports that are already i
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So no doubt his words hit home as ignacious argues that bidens advanced age is a huge liability. Hes will says his running mate and her unpopularity is a big liability for democrats president ial hopes in 2024. He argues that this means that she needs to go. That combination seems to me to be potentially dangerous for the democrats in fending off what would be a disaster, a revenge presidency by donald trump. Quite a startling oped that some of us saw last night. Ari fleischer joins us. Lee carter is here and leslie marshall, all weighin on what this means for bidens potential candidacy. First, new reaction from the white house to speaker mccarthys announcement that he will launch an Impeachment Inquiry in to President Biden. Certainly not going to speculate on what has been a baseless inquiry that the House Republicans cant even really defend themselves. And that many House Republicans have said they couldnt support their own votes. So we bring in the chair of the house ways and means