administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understan
away, he will run a source telling cnn. it s no longer helpful or necessary to not just say the obvious. the exact day, however, still being debated. already the oldest person to serve the president would be weeks away from his 82nd birthday. should he win a second term advisors tell cnn the decision to announce comes at a time with the campaign fields it needs to energize voters about the president. his policies. and a second term. mattingly our chief white house correspondent joins me, so no date has been set. not finalized, i think is probably the best way to frame things, but advisors have made clear and have been privately meeting and planning to announce on tuesday of next week, and the reason that s important and it would be through a campaign video. it s not going to be a major rally, but officials start to things launch that we have long expected long been told, was coming, but never really had a firm timeline on that seems to be shifting pretty clearly. that date on
captioning brought to you by meso book .com. we offer a free book on mesothelioma call for the free book and receive so much more call 1 808 31 37 100. good evening. cnn has learned that president biden s announcement to run for a second term. now maybe days away, he will run a source telling cnn. it s no longer helpful or necessary to not just say the obvious. the exact day, however, still being debated. already the oldest person to serve the president would be weeks away from his 82nd birthday. should he win a second term advisors tell cnn the decision to announce comes at a time with the campaign fields it needs to energize voters about the president. his policies. and a second term. mattingly our chief white house correspondent joins me, so no date has been set. not finalized, i think is probably the best way to frame things, but advisors have made clear and have been privately meeting and planning to announce on tuesday of next week, and the reason that s important and i
their own city overnight. a russian warplane targets the wrong side of the border, damaging buildings and leaving a 130 ft crater in its wake what the russian defense ministry is now saying and in court today, three men charged in connection with a white nationalist rally in charlottesville will appear before a judge and cnn is live outside the court. new this morning, deeply disturbing details about the kentucky bank shooter from notes he himself wrote police now piecing together his motive for the massacre were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. new overnight. a large blast rocked a russian city near the ukrainian border, and they did it to themselves. you can see it right here as one of russia s own planes targets its own city firing into that city, russia state news agency says a russian jet dropped the bomb during a mid air emergency over the city of belgorod. you can see that city is over the border from
the russian defense ministry is now saying these stories and more on cnn news, central. alright we ve learned that louisville bank shooter left behind too lengthy notes, and they seem to reveal why he opened fire on his co workers earlier this month, enforcement sources said one note was found in the gunman s home, the other found on him at the scene on april 10th. the shooter killed five people and injured several others, including a rookie police officer who was shot in the head. he still remains in the hospital. police then killed the shooter. the notes revealed that part of his goal was to show how easy it is in america for someone with mental illness to get ahold of an assault weapon. after the shooting, the gunman s family acknowledged he struggled with depression, but he was able to legally purchase an ar 15 style rifle just seven days before the attack. kentucky is known to have some of the least restrictive gun laws in the country perspective, gun buyers only need to