you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across america s skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. cnn has team coverage of this very tense moment in u.s./china relations. i want to start with warren lieberman who is over at the pentagon. what are you learning about the recovery effort that is gong on? i say sum that officials want to get their hands on it as quickly as possible. absolutelily. but the debris, what was left of the payload, the length of three school buses has fallen in 47 feet of water.
look in the storage records and then they find these three files, three classified documents, in trump s desk drawer. so certainly laying out the case that this was justified. they also on this issue because this is really about whether a special master and third party can review these documents, they re saying these aren t trump s documents to review, they belong to the american people. there is no executive privilege. trump never asserted executive privilege at any point along the process until the search warrant was executed. they re saying that, you know, to permit a special master to get involved at this point could cause unnecessary significant harm because there s also a you have the intelligence agencies to see what was in these documents and whether there is any potential harm to sources and methods. thank you for helping us just begin to understand what s in here. a lot that we did not know yesterday at this time. thank you so much. and joining us now is cnn
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decision starting with a reversal a federal abortion rights have left america s political fault lines even deeper. on one side of the divide are blue states racing to codify abortion rights and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side are mostly red states that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortion with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishment for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. if not just an outright national ban. of course, rose reversal was just one ruling of the court s conservative majority. it has also issued a full slate of decisions on guns, the environment and voting rights. that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court usually is. by all accounts will be for sometime. is america being remade by the rulings? that is the big question on politicsnation. and another big question, just h
of guilt, jumping off the screen at these hearings and what the department of justice is doing about it. and how donald trump and his mom dusted off a pre-existing american script to try to pull off their insurrection when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. it did not seem like there could possibly be any secrets left, that there could be possibly be new have literally shocking details about the ex presidents plot to and american democracy. and yet, oh my, there is. yesterday s historic testimony from cassidy hutchison, and advisor, to chief of staff mark meadows, forced everyone to update their basic understanding of what it was we saw in the period leading up to and during the insurrection on january 6th, both for donald trump and the people who supported his attempts to end the peaceful transfer of power. the old model of our understanding of what happened on january 6th is basically as follows. the ex president told a bunch of lies abo
what happens next. then, more states take action on abortion, after the supreme court decision, with democrats pushing the president to do something more, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening, i m alicia menendez, in for stephanie ruhle. after days a very public invitations to come talk, the january 6th committee tonight has issued a formal subpoena for pets to pallone. the move comes just one day after that devastating testimony from cassidy hutchinson, who the former trump white house counsel s actions ahead of him during the insurrection. in a statement, the committee writes its investigation has, quote, revealed evidence that mr. cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about president trump s activities on january 6th and in the days that preceded it. the panel notes cipollone did sit for an informal interview on april 13th. but goes on to say that, unfortunately, however, you have declined to cooperate with us further, inclu