the sky, but they ve now had to do it four times in less than two weeks. what the heck is going on? is today the day the white house gives the public some answers. dramatic video out of turkey where this woman was pulled from the rubble after spending 175 hours buried alive. she s not the only one. the stories that are providing flickers of joy in the midst of an escalating catastrophe coming up. nikki haley is poised to become the first republican to take on donald trump and she won t be the last. it s one thing to run. who is ready to actually go after the former president who is already in attack mode. lots to get to. we start with the extraordinary developments in the sky above the u.s. pentagon and military officials are scrambling to answer the question the entire country is asking. what are those unidentified objects we keep shooting down including three in the last three days. we re hoping to get more answers from the white house briefing set to get under way an
react? terrific hypothetical, we re not there yet. you have the chinese spy issue, chinese buying more oil from russia, china, you know, opening up cases in the u.s. trying to steal u.s. technology from universities, president xi is going to be meeting with the iranian president, at what point do a big review of the u.s. relationship with china, and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. level set here, and i know i m running close on time, but sorry. no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at bali, at the g20. the whole purpose of that discussion was to move this relationship forward in a better way. most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. the president knows that, and he wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way. and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of the
i m paula reid. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news. the u.s. military has shot down another high-altitude object, this time over lake huron. this is according to aus u.s. official and a congressional source briefed on the matter. this would be the fourth object brought down by u.s. fighter jets in the past nine days. cnn s kylie atwood is at the state department. kylie, war you learning? that s right, paula. and the third object brought down in just the last three days. of course, we re learning that this high-altitude object was traveling and so the down over lake huron, north of michigan, in between michigan and canada. that is according to a u.s. official and a congressional source briefed on the matter. it appears that members of congress from michigan are learning more about this in conversations with the pentagon today. i want to read to you what congresswoman slotkin tweeted just in the last few hours or so, saying,
that democrat josh shapiro when the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq pennsylvania s are likely to gain new protections and police reform, gun control measures, green energy measures, could be on the table. in short, as we d like to say every time on this show, every election matters when the vote count. coming up on the second hour of ayman, breaking news, a third high altitude object has been found. this one in northern canada. plus, president biden goes on offense after a state of the union effect and republicans are running scared. undermining democracy. new conservative majority on the north carolina supreme court might overrule past decisions that protected voting rights. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. we begin this hour with our breaking coverage of a third unidentified object, shot down over north america
the other two won the races by 50 and 75 points. for months on this show, we have been covering the chaos that ensued when due to a series of unexpected issues, three seats won by democrats in the november elections were left vacant. pennsylvania republicans took that opportunity to in effect, steal their way to a majority in the state house. clearly ignoring the will of the people by pretending that they had a majority while those seats remained unfilled. but now that those special elections have been held and the winner settled, it seems like a more drama free environment will be coming into effect because democrats will now control the commonwealth s legislature for the first time in a dozen years as we mentioned earlier. and it is coupled with the fact that democrat josh shapiro won the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq