under pressure the growing calls for senato diane feinstein to step down i ll talk to the first democra to say it out loud the congressman ro khanna. and senator tim scott s toug position the most prominent black man i the republican party leans int the culture wars as he explore a run for president. i m jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. we hold these truths to b self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator wit certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit o happiness. the declaration of independenc certainly rings hollow today a the republican party continues to push legislation that is no only wildly unpopular an dangerous, but also strips these unalienable rights fro americans. friday, the supreme cour ordered continued access t mifepristone until the court could make a final decision on wednesday. polling shows a majority o americans, 64% believe abortio should be legal in all or
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
response kicking into high gear across america s south. a weekend of violent storms and deadly tornadoes. officials saying a full recovery in places like mississippi could take years. volunteers and nonprofits, including the american red cross, salvation army and samaritan s purse flooding into the area offering assistance, food and shelter. they need a lot of all of it. welcome, brand-new hour starts now. i m bill hemmer. dana has time off this week. a big welcome to aishah. aishah: i m aishah hosni. search and rescue operations are officially over in mississippi. now comes the harder part. officials turning to longer-term issues. we are talking about housing, food, public services. a task made even harder with local government buildings destroyed. they aren t even there. the offices are gone. many neighborhoods reduced to rubble. no power, no phones, no gas stations, nothing. meanwhile survivors who lost everything telling their incredible stories. my husband opened the
methodical way. let s go. i need three. one more. let s go. let s go. let s go, let s go! it s really chilling to listen to that. they did run towards what was going on in there. the horrific loss of three 9-year-olds. we have just received this photo of evelyn dieckhaus, hallie scruggs, the daughter of the pastor at the church that runs this school. beautiful family. three older brothers. william kinney, we don t have a photograph of at this time. three adults. all in their 60s, all dedicated to the covenant school. working at this place that we re centered on faith and families and taking care of these children. cynthia peak, the head of the school who we now know was in the hallway. came out in to the hallway and had some sort of confrontation with this shooter. katherine koonce, we remember today, for her service to this school and the custodian, mike hill who was shot in the early stages of this as this killer shot through the doors. surveillance video shows
good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman s hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in