top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat
i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday and our nightcap is standing b to break down another historic newsweek so, don t go anywhere. but we are going to start this broadcast again back in th city of nashville, where two black state lawmakers were expelled from the tennesse legislature after peacefully protesting against gun violenc in house chamber the former state representative, justin jones, might not be former furlong the majority of the national city council say they will vot to reinstate him until a special election can be held the tennessee expulsions o cause national outrage president biden posting this photo of his virtual meeting who are now known as the tennessee three earlier. vice president harris called the situation undemocratic and dangerous and travel t nashville today to meet with the expelled lawmakers here s just some of what has been happening over the last 2 hours. we called for you all to ba assault weapons. and you respond with an assaul on democracy fr
abortion pill ruling from th texas judge is in. what it means for access acros the country and what comes next and our friday night cap i here with other major storie of the week, and they re mvps, as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday and our nightcap is standing b to break down another historic newsweek so, don t go anywhere. but we are going to start this broadcast again back in th city of nashville, where two black state lawmakers were expelled from the tennesse legislature after peacefully protesting against gun violenc in house chamber the former state representative, justin jones, might not be former furlong the majority of the national city council say they will vot to reinstate him until a special election can be held the tennessee expulsions o cause national outrage president biden posting this photo of his virtual meeting who are now known as the tennessee three earlier. vice president harris called the
but what about us latinos? we ve been here in this city, and we ve got every kind of latino. you want your puerto ricans? wepa. you want your cubans? dale! dominicans? que lo que tigre. colombianos? todo bien, todo bien. mexicanos? no manches, guey. and this is where i grew up, too. and when i was a kid, i don t know what the streets were paved with, but it damn sure as hell was not gold. but that didn t stop latinx new yorkers from making big contributions. basquiat, rita moreno puerto rican. cardi b dominican. supreme court justice sotomayor, nuyorican from the bx. even the very first non-indigenous person to live and work in the island of manhattan in the 1600s was juan rodriguez, a dominicano. mira eso, right from the start, we ve been here making this city great. now, i don t know what new york would be without latinos, but it sure as hell wouldn t smell as good, it wouldn t taste as good, and it definitely wouldn t sound as good. that s right, cause salsa music was in
orange one, things are worse than ever and cnn has the means to prove it. that is it, means. memes. what your uncle sense on facebook after convincing everyone he is the only one who has seen them. they are tiresome. the crying mike michael jordan meme. the distracted boyfriend meme. even joe biden falling off his bike became a meme. of course you can forget this mean. [lau[chuckles. [laughter] or this one. yeah. and of course, this one. [laughter] [laughs] yeah. but apparently means our net memes are now into of white supremacy. that is according to cnn. whites sharing memes with black people in them is racist because if there s one thing racist love, it is looking at black people. seen and calls it digital blackface. it is sad where there is not racism, cnn just has to invent it. they are so desperate for relevance that they will push division any way they can. seen and.com writer writes digital blackface is where white people co-op black expressions or culture to co