katy tur, welcome to katy tur reports at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we know that three more objects were shot down over american and canadian airspace over the weekend. what we do know not know is what exactly all of those objects were, what they were doing, and who sent them. we also don t know if we re just seeing more of them because we re looking more closely. these are answerable questions and the white house just tried to fill in some of those blanks, speaking from the podium and the white house briefing room a moment ago, national security council spokesperson john kirby told reporters the intel community is assessing. as of now, it does not look like these additional objects were conducting surveillance. they weren t maneuverable. there was no propulsion, and they were not manned. as to who sent them, that is still unclear. but kirby did begin the briefing by calling out china. china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that s connected to the peo
i know you re happy about it. i know you want the money because you have been telling me, whenever you see me, wherever you happen to see me, around town ask, telling me on social media, you need the money. a lot of people do. stimulus payments. up to $1,400 a person. hitting americans bank accounts as soon as this weekend. you can use the money, right? but the president and vice president, kamala harris, heading up a team to go out and sell the bill to the country over the next few weeks. while the president is showing leadership, what are we seeing from the gop? let s talk about that. the party of lincoln. doesn t care about the rescue plan and what it will do for desperate americans. what they re fighting for is taking away your voting rights. trying to disenfranchise voters. mainly people of color who voted for joe biden. there are more than 250 bills nationwide to roll back voter access. and it s nothing but a blatant attempt by republicans to claw their way back to p
and he is spewing blatant racism, claiming he wasn t afraid of the capitol rioters, because, well why don t you take a listen for yourself. criticized because i made the comment that on january 6th, i never felt threatened. because i didn t. and mainly because i knew even though those thousands of people, there were marching on the capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, i knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law. so i wasn t concerned. had the tables been turned, this could mean trouble. had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been a little concerned. did you hear him? he wasn t afraid of those people maybe because they re white? not maybe. that s the reason. because if they were black, he would be afraid of them. he said the
go to aerotrainer.com to get yours now. a very good day to all of you from world headquarters here in new york welcome to weekends with alex witt. here s what s happening for all of you. we re turning to the breaking news out of louisville where that crowd has gathered to commemorate the one year anniversary of breonna taylor s killing. let s go to antonio hilton who s there for us. we heard a lot of cheering and singing there when benjamin crump had taken to the podium, the stage there. what s that right now? it sounds like singing. reporter: there s been some singing here today, alex. but right now the mood is a lot of hurt and anger. benjamin crump is still speaking, he s one of the lead lawyers working on breonna taylor s case from the start. but family members, supporters are on the stage here. you re hearing renewed calls for transparency. there s a major divide between residents in the city and those they counted on to serve them. what you re hearing from black res
increases across the country change and new data emerge. we re also keeping a close eye on capitol hill where the house is debating, you see kevin mccarthy there, get ready to hold a historic vote on president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief package, a monumental piece of legislation that offers aid to almost every part of life right now. $1400 checks to individuals, unemployment boost, child tax credit, funding for schools. joining me now for the state of play on where things stand there, manu raju is on the hill joining us from the white house and director david chalian is joining us as well. manu, walk us through what is about to happen in the house. we do expect final passage to occur late in the 12:00 hour in the east, 12:45 or so is when we expect that vote to begin. republicans have tried to delay, specifically one republican, marjorie taylor greene tried to delay the vote by forcing a motion to adjourn the house. that was rejected. a lot of republican colleagues