catch me tomorrow and following my friend and colleague, i will be back next saturday as well at two pm eastern. and symone starts right now. greetings, everyone. you are watching symone. we are keeping an eye on capitol hill. senators are working through the weekend to try to come up with a framework for immigration and border security measures. senate democrats are hoping this will help republicans get on board, given very egan urgently needed aid to ukraine and israel. but even if the senators strike a, deal house republicans and progressive democrats are in no mood to compromise. i like this. what is ahead and what is at stake. plus, polls show a majority of americans think abortion should be illegal. but in post roe america, voters are trying to protect women s rights and by changing their state constitutions. we are talking to the speaker of the house in pennsylvania about their efforts to preserve abortion access. there is also a lot of buzz about the color purpl
More books we hope to cover. Number one, Richard Orton smith who has written dozens of books has a brandnew biography coming out on gerald ford. It is entitled in ordinary men, the surprising life and historic residency of gerald ford. It took about a decade for him to write this book. Another book coming out is called letters to trump. This is Donald Trumps book and in this book he puts some of the letters that were written to him prior to becoming president. He makes editorial comments as well. Its a brandnew book published by a price that is run by his son, donald trump, jr. Those are two books that are coming out. Another program is called about books. And that we look at the bids business of publishing. One interview we did was with Michael Knowles, the book reviewer for prager university. We talked him about some of the books that he looks at. Here is a snippet of that interview. Recently on about books, Michael Knowles discussed his program the book club. It is on the books that
now, santos was completely denying the allegations. he also was making a reference to the fact that this prospective staffer who is a former reporter made some audiotapes, recorded conversations with santos and then leaked them. but this is just the latest serious allegation in a long string of allegations against the embattled congressman. a long string that keeps on getting longer. melanie, thank you. it is the top of the hour. just a short time ago the pentagon defended the president s choice to delay shooting town a suspected spy balloon from china. a fight jet brought it down saturday. after the balloon crossed the continental united states, multiple republicans have criticized it calling it a weak response. but commander at norad says the intelligence gathered will be of value. there was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons. this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilit
now that the shelby county commission done their job. i m so glad we get to get back to doing our job and what is our job? to elevate the voices of the six kids the six people in nashville. three children who were just 9 years old. now both lawmakers expelled by republicans in the tennessee legislature have been reinstated, proving just how pointless that exercise was. state representative justin j. pearson joins me in just a moment and the two pillars of the republican party, trump and fox, are all friendly again and there are big new developments in both of their perilous legal situations. and late today, a new threatening letter is received by manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s office containing a suspicious white powder but we begin tonight with the triumphant return of the tennessee three. earlier today, the shelby county commission voted to reappoint justin j. pearson to his duly elected position, to represent the good citizens of district 86 not a single republic
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