hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
We begin in Eastern Ukraine request Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 was shot down. Ukrainian government now says they have evidence that russia supplied the Missile System that brought the plane down killing all 298 people aboard. We know for sure that the team was russian. They were russian citizens operating bukm1 and they came from the territory of Russian Federation together with the missile launcher. Prorussian rebels allowed ukrainian emergency workers to recover bodies from the crash site this morning. But European International monitors were again denied access. The Ukrainian Government says the crime scene still isnt secure and that yesterday dozens of bodies were removed from the scene and then transport today the rebelheld city of don everything. They say several items that should have been evidence have already been taken from the site. Al jazerras Scott Heidler is at the scratch eight with more. Reporter when we came from a two hour drive to hear, we saw lighter presence at
Thanks, jason, and thanks for being here. On behalf of the investigative team, i wanted to give you a major update in a development that weve come to in this case, and that is based on the evidence that weve gathered to this point, weve come to the conclusion that an individual named Anthony Warner is the bomber. He was present when the bomb went off, and that he perished in the bombing. We base this conclusion on forensic evidence including dna evidence that youll hear about as well as evidence that was gathered at the scene of the bombing. Because this was a collaborative effort, what i want to do is turn the microphone over to each of the agency folks here. Theyre going to talk about their agencys role in the investigation and how the evidence that they gathered and how the tests that they conducted led us to this conclusion. So let me start out by introducing Tennessee Bureau of investigation director david rausch. Thank you. I first want to say that we appreciate the collaborative
Lab with thousands of rounds of ammunition and pipe bombs. They apparently lived there with their 6monthold daughter. I want to turn to the investigation and new information pamela brown is getting for us. What are your sources saying about a possible motive in this case . That is still unclear and what they are hoping for is to get the contents from their electronics. We learned there were two cell phones that were damaged and found in a trash can at one of the crime scenes. The cell phones are being sent to the quantico lab and we have learned that while investigators found a computer in the home, the hard drive belonging to that computer is missing. So investigators have had to issue a subpoena for electronic information content from the big providers. They are waiting for that. All of this will be crucial. For what evidence investigators are looking at now there is nothing to indicate a clear cut motive. One source i spoke to said this does not fit neatly into a box. There are susp
Announcer this is cnn breaking news were following breaking news on the search for one or more of the political terrorists who have sent packaged bombs to prominent figures who have been criticized by the president. Tonight, sources tell cnn that authorities believe self of the packages went through a mail facility in opa locka, florida. This as police are warning additional devices may be in the mail right now and should be considered dangerous. Authorities say theyre treating all ten packages that have been intercepted so far as live devices. Three more were discovered today. One was sent to the office of the actor Robert Deniro. Two others were addressed to Vice President joe biden. I will speak with a former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to Miguel Marquez in new york city. Miguel, we got an update on the bomb investigation from the police and the fbi late today. Reporter thats right, wolf. And i want to und