the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
longer to go in, get after it, put it out. aerial bombers between the flames and myself and it saved the house. these strikes actually did hit the port of odesa, we have indications that they certainly got close to some grain terminals. translator: this is an overgas war that russia is waging against united europe. it is tuesday, july 26, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where congressional hearings on the january 6 u.s. capitol riot are on hold until september. but the investigation is taking a new turn. cnn has learned two former trump administration officials testified before a federal grand jury in washington. marc short on the right served as chief of staff to vice president mike pence, and greg jacob was another top aide. evan perez explains why their testimony is a big deal. reporter: the justice department investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election has taken a major step forward with the former vice president s chief of staff ap
spotlight this week as ticket sales for queen b s renaissance world tour go live. we re joined by former music city executive seth. always great to have you on here. it s interesting because unlike taylor swift, what ticketmaster is going to do this time is roll these things out in waves. they sent us this tweet last night. they said, if you re on the wait list, you re not alone, registration demand was over eight times over ticket inventory. more people are in the wait list. we are going to lean into the wait list to send more access codes out tomorrow. there won t be enough tickets to go around but you have a shot. they re tampering down expectation saying you re you may not get you may not get this. they re staggering it. they re going to do a lottery. it ll be a random lottery. i don t know how many folks have gone to their web site to read it actually because they ve tremendously overcommunicated pretty much every detail about
extraordinary high demands on ticketing systems, and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet the demand public on sale for taylor swift, the tour has been canceled. not swift said she s not going to make excuses for ticketmaster but she posted this on instagram quote we asked them multiple times if they can handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could. it is truly amazing 2.4 million people got tickets but it really kisses me off that a lot of them feel like they went there several bear attacks to get them. so what went wrong? there is a presale event for registered fans on tuesday and so many people try to access it that ticketmaster website could barely keep up. the company said it sold more than 2 million tickets that day. it is the most ever for one artist and a single day. but what about the fans who did not get a shot at the presale? you could say they are seeing red. and that lawmakers are looking into it. this is of the first time that ticketmaster s run in
for hours. folks across the country are going on and on. the site kept crashing and freezing. look at this. he is going to general onsale. why are they doing that? and ticketmaster was cancelling friday general sales to the general public. citing high demands on the ticket inventory to meet that demand. they have the trust investigation of the owner of ticketmaster, whether they have a monopoly for concertses. chloe, people are really tearing their hair out over