we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. we must guard against the acquisition of unwanted influence by the military industrial complex. 63 years after president eisenhower s farewell speech, those words are coming back to haunt us, with fears growing of a regional war in the middle east. also tonight, e. jean carroll speaks out for the first time since the $83 million verdict against donald trump. trump doesn t even pay his lawyers, so how likely is it that ms. carroll will ever see that money? plus, infrastructure and chips and science are among president biden s biggest accomplishments. now, republicans are shamelessly trying to take credit for policies they voted against. but we begin tonight with the growing threat of a regional war in the middle east. over the weekend, three u.s. service members were killed and more than 40 injured in an attack on a military base in northeast jordan near the syrian border. late today
the republican presidential primary, we will look at who, and what is their chance to defeat the former president. and later on this hour, from getting cops called on her to a shout out from, of all places, yale, i m going to speak to nine-year-old bobbi wilson whose fascination with lanternflies made one neighbor suspicious but has made her family very proud. that s ahead this hour as well. we want to begin though once again with the fallout from the chinese spy balloon shot out of this guy off the carolina coast. beijing condemning the move to bring down the balloon. this is happening as u.s. senior government officials confirm the chinese balloon crossed into the u.s. at least three different times during the trump administration s. i wanna bring in msnbc national security analyst nick watt as well. george, let me start with you on this. when you are there in myrtle beach. what have you been seeing? good afternoon, yasmin. we know military operations to recover the bal
75 witnesses, 800 photographs and exhibits but yet as you mentioned the jury needed less than three hours to reach its vertex. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant indictment for murder guilty, guilty, indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, guilty, guilty. reporter: alex murdaugh was immediately handcuffed and led from the court. no obvious signs of emotion on his face. as he contemplated the reality that the jury simply did not buy his excuses for the initially lying to the police about his whereabouts and movements on the night is why and youngest son were shot to death. murdaugh was portrayed as a serial liar by the prosecution who painstakingly went through murdaugh s long history of stealing millions of dollars from his law partners and from his clients and the attorney said if marc spent so much of his life telling lies, the jury should conclude he was lying again now. and to emphasize that point, they showed
greg: at least we know they re still alive. but even though kat s not back, look who is. yes, another blond psychopath. oh, she s not that bad. okay, she is you know, i bet she was the secretary of state. you know, i was the secretary of state. i spent, you know, many days on airplanes flying from place to place encouraging people to have a real democracy and one of the hall marks of a i real democracy is the peaceful transfer of power. greg: yeah. well, you know what else is a hallmark of democracy? a free and fair election and the right to pitch about it if you didn t think it was just that. you know, kind of like you did, you old gas bag in sensible shoes. and hillary, you remember libya s peaceful transfer of power right? it ended up with two civil wars murdered americans and you saying, what difference does it make. anyway apparently she was a guest on the view, which is like sprinkling saw dust on vomit. i don t even know what that means really, if that s a good t
which is going through a very difficult first couple of days of 2024. is there any sense that there is a reason for what happened? there actually haven t been any commercial airline crashes, et cetera, the last couple of years. so what are people saying right now? so this was an air bus a-350-900. japan airlines has a bunch of them in their fleet. it has a solid safety record. what is being reported by japan s national broadcaster nhk is there might have been some miscommunication with air traffic control. the airport was very busy. my camera mab john says when he was landing he saw another aircraft very close to his and told me he looked out the window and thought to himself, gosh, that s the closest i ve ever seen with another plane at this point when my flight is coming in and landing. and so, something happened. there was something that happened that caused these two planes to be on the same runway