Immigration and National Security experts to testify on immigration and Transnational Criminal Organizations at a recent Homeland Security hearing this runs just under three hours Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection. Open border policies and how they advanced cartel crime in america. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Southwest border is wide open. The evidence is clear more than 5. 5 million encounters god away since 2021. Nearly 380,000 encounters of unaccompanied minors. A Record Number of retinal poisonings in the United States largely driven by drugs flooding across our southwest border. The crisis is a direct result of the secretaries dereliction of duties. It is being published later today and makes all this clear. Todays hearing and subsequent hearings and the consequences of these policies. Before i get to the subject of todays hearing i want to briefly talk about some of those numbers because i am sure we are in for a few days of unjustified
did someone tamper with the tapes? plus, senator manchin on the debt ceiling, biden s re-election. that interview is coming up. who was behind the drones the kremlin say were sent to kill putin? let s go outfront. good evening. i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. breaking news, tapes at mar-a-lago. special counsel jack smith is now asking questions about the handling of surveillance tapes from trump s home in florida. whether the tapes could have been tampered with. smith of course is leading the criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents. they want to hear from one or two executives. they re said to know a lot about mar-a-lago s inner workings. trump went on fox news to boasts about the tapes he handed over to prosecutors. they raided mar-a-lago. vicious ly raided mar-a-lago. i have tape, i gave them tapes. i gave it to them. i could have held that back. i gave them tape. but you know the tape they don t want me to reveal, if possible,
what happens next and how will vladimir putin use this in the war? the alleged shooter of a hospital building here in atlanta is captured hours after he killed one woman and wounded four others. authorities are trying to figure out what set him off. and the special counsel investigating possible obstruction of justice charge against donald trump issues a flurry of subpoenas to some of trump s closest allies, including two men in charge of surveillance videos at mar-a-lago. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom we kim brunhuber. it is nine a.m. in kyiv, where authorities are reporting the most intense air attacks since the beginning of the year. military official says a ukrainian air defense intercepted all incoming russian missiles. it s likely retaliation for what russia claims is a pair of ukrainian drone strikes on the kremlin, an attempt to assassinate president vladimir putin. he was not at the building at the time. and ukraine strongly denies any such involveme
just ahead russia is saying ukraine sent two drones to kill president vladimir putin. we don t attack putin or moscow. we re strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to the 2% goal. a growing chorus of voices urging the fed to pause with the rate hikes. this investigation is significant and also a reminder that they are not just looking into how the materials are handled but they are also closely examining whether anyone tried to get in the way of having all the evidence. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, may 4. and russia appears to be retaliating for a drone strike on the kremlin. ukraine denies it had anything to do with the attack which moscow calls an assassination attempt on president due con putin. two drones flew above the kremlin early wednesday but there is not evidence that ukraine because behind the attack. drones shot down over ukraine today have the words for the kremlin and mosc
one balloon circumstnavigated t glove, drifting pass hawaii and florida at an altitude about 65,000 feet. this is what jake sullivan told kasie hunt about that discovery. because the intelligence community made this a priority at the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial air space. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the trump administration was unable to detect. and we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration, as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american air space and american territory. okay. let me bring in our guests now. cnn analyst, john miller. errol lewis and scott jennings and shawn. i want to understand. help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yea