vietnam that s, you couldn t ask for anything and you better. fulfilling a marine motto, always faithful. harry smith, nbc news, florida. my dad who served in that called me this morning, and ask me to acknowledge this day, and i m grateful that we are. because we are grateful today, and every day for the service and sacrifice of our military and their families. on that note, i wish you all a very good night from washington d.c.. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thank you for staying up, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. at the end of tomo thanks to r joining us this, hour i m ali velshi in for alex tonight. this is the ukrainian city of bakhmut, or what is left of it anyway. prior to russia s invasion last year, but was a small relatively unremarkable city of about 75,000 people. now it is one of the most important cities in the war. for seven straight months, ukrainian forces have held back move while being attacked by russian forces from th
thank you. thank you. that s all in for tonight. alex wagner is next. with ali velshi. high drama playing out right now. questions that he wasn t able to answer when he was running for president back then. some of the things that starbucks have done to people who have indicated they want to be unionized. that s a right we believe people should have the right to have. it s 2023. why can t i put a tip on my credit card because workers at the store decided to be unionized. the photo of the line getting into this hearing, an enormous line. highly consequential. thank you for joining us tonight. this is ukrainian city of bakhmut. prior to russia s invasion last year, bakhmut was a small city of about 75,000. now it s one of the most important cities in the war, for seven straight months ukrainian forces have held bakhmut by being attacked by russian forces. this is the longest continual battle of the war so far. thought to be europe s deadliest land battle since world
professional and you see with the gesture that players have done for the fans as well. we were hurting but ultimately that was a couple of days ago now and our focus but ultimately that was a couple of days ago now and ourfocus is on thursday and we are going to approach that with the full belief that we can get a positive result. i have to make sure that our players are ready have to make sure that our players are ready for tomorrow. facing a good are ready for tomorrow. facing a good appointment, so it s a good team, good appointment, so it s a good team, good players and we are having a certain team, good players and we are having a certain circumstance and i have to make a certain circumstance and i have to make sure a certain circumstance and i have to make sure that they are focused and have energy and i have on the front foot to have energy and i have on the front foot to go have energy and i have on the front foot to go into battle. the have energy and
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
hello. joining us in the united states and all around the world, thank you for joining us. i m bianca nobilo. i m maximum foster. ahead on cnn newsroom. the president can no longer ignore by not negotiating. whether or not the debt limit gets extended. walt disney parks and resort filed a lawsuit in florida against ron desantis. i believe the number of casualties and wounded will increase after the foreigners are evacuated. god knows if we will be alive or dead. live from london, this is cnn newsroom. with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, april 27th. it s 4:00 a.m. in washington, d.c. where republicans in the house of representatives are claiming a major victory passing a bill to raise the nation s debt limit and potentially avoiding a economic catastrophe but it s dead on arrival in senate where the democrats object to huge cuts in huge spending. the republicans hope it will strengthen their hand in negotiations with democrats and the whi