Handloser sandra smith. John and im this is the story. Major stories breaking at this hour, the Supreme Court has just allowed texas to enforce their own state Immigration Law. This is a very monumental decision. And this is in place for now before it goes to the next level of appeals. For the state at this point can start arresting, people suspected of crossing the border illegally while this legal battle over the law continuous. Is called sb for preparedness talk about it a lot in recent days so we will take you live to the border, will get reaction from about the Supreme Court decision and what the impacts will look like in texas coming up momentarily. What first, what happens when two top u. S. Generals in charge of our deadly exit from afghanistan testify for the first time before congress as free speaking, private citizens about what really happened as the talent taliban swept the country and President Biden announced our unilateral pullout. Time in many ways to happen just befor
the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining that discrepancy. what this does is it allows democrats to show that they ve got more money and it allows speaker johnson to kind
young. and uh and so it s a it s not exceptional that that young people are doing important things in our military. that s that s really not the issue. the issue is and by the way he had a top secret clearance. the issue is, uh, you know how, uh, you responsibly execute, carry out your duties and how you protect the information. as the pentagon tries to contain this, a secret document not previously reported on shows the chinese military is preparing a supersonic spy drone unit. we have cnn s alex marquardt here with us on on this story. what do we learning about this drone? it s pretty incredible. it is pretty remarkable. it does show significant advancement in china s drone capabilities. and as you noted, this is an assessment that comes from the national geospatial intelligence agency. it was a document was obtained by the washington post, which we ourselves have not seen. verified but what it does indicate is that they have made significant leaps to this drone , which is
Well ask the company whether this has anything to do with President Trumps America First approach. And. The girls not for turning why this statue of defiance is staying put on wall street. The scottish and uk governments look to be on a Collision Course tonight. Within the last couple of hours, the Scottish Parliament has backed the Scottish First ministers demands for a second Independence Referendum. The final decision to grant that vote still rests with the uk government In Westminster, and tonight they have refused to even enter into negotiations with the Scottish Government until the Brexit Process is complete. That could be years away, and well outside the timetable set out by edinburgh. Our Scotland Editor sarah smith reports on a looming confrontation between holyrood and westminster. Jubilant excitement as supporters heard the Scottish Parliament had just voted for a referendum. Tears of joy today, but disappointment will follow. They are shouting yes, the Prime Minister will
of the country that committed themselves to supporting a grifter, a charlatan, a person who has no interest in democracy, and his only interest in himself and his own needs and desires and wants. and we face at this moment, irrespective of donald trump, we faced people trying to restrict the vote, we face a kind of the cultural war as people are trying to live into these divides, whether they re blue, red, urban, rural, democrat or republican, however you want to describe it, we re in the midst of a continuing conversation of this war. and choices need to be made, side seem to be chosen, and those that are going about their business thinking that everything will be okay, they re gonna look up and everything is gonna crumble and collapse right in front of them if they don t understand the urgency of now. you know you mentioned the civil war, i don t know how it s actually been quite a toc of conversation in the republican presidential prary. donald trump said, it could ve