usually it took a phone call and everything was fine because economic security is national security, i will revoke china s most favored nations status immediately on day one. [applause] i will implement four-year plan to phase out all chinese imports of essential goods and gain total independence from china. [cheering and applauding] we have to do it. [cheering and applauding] i will hold china financially accountable for unleashing the china virus upon the world. [cheering and applauding] i will again withdraw from the to be a djokovic stands for we hide outbreaks. we hide outbreaks. united states was paid [applause] i think this is important because again, so much common sense involved. the united states was paying the world health organization $4,150,000,000 a year. in terms of money and trillions and trillions, or 150 million dollars a year and i took them out, that s what it was. the price was 4150. 350 million people. china was paying $39 million a year for 1.4 billio
narrowly leading ron desantis ahead of the 2024 primary showdown. the early race heating up right now, as trump escalates his attacks on desantis and other potential opponents. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the very dramatic developments over the black sea today. a russian fighter jet forcing down a u.s. drone during an incident the u.s. air force is calling reckless and unprofessional. cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman is joining us. how did this up fold and how are u.s. officials responding tonight? reporter: this all plays out early tuesday morning over the black sea where a u.s. air force mq-9 drone, a surveillance drone, was operating, as we have seen it do since the beginning of this war and earlier than that. what s different is how this played out next. according to the pentagon, for 30 or 40 minutes over international waters, two russian su-22 fig
and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that s the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass sod close struck one of the propellers dropping it down into the southwest of crimea. this is the first contact of this sort since the height of the cold war. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. russian defense ministry denies that the jet impacted the u.s. drone and says the drone was headed in the direction of russia with its transpo
island, complete with amenities, wait for it, that include x box game consoles, ping pong tables, fluff and fold laundry, plenty of controversy, with residents housed in homeless shelters, a stark contrast to rundown conditions they live in. meanwhile, the situation at the southern border is spiralling out of control. the el paso mayor is denying the white house asked him not to declare a state of emergency over the influx of illegal immigrants, but comments at a city council meeting last month suggest otherwise. did the white house ask you not to declare a state of emergency? absolutely not. one of the things i m thankful for the white house, the federal government, they ve done a really, really good job working with us, helping us to make sure we get funding to be able to do the job that border cities are required to do. i had a conversation this morning or yesterday with the chief of the u.s. border patrol, chief ortiz, and he does not support declaring a state of emer