Im Bianca Nobilo live from london. Max foster has the day off but hell be back monday. Just ahead former President Trump reacting to his georgia indictment for the first time on camera and calling for his party to come to his defense. President biden prepares to host the leaders of japan and south korea on friday at camp david. China and north korea high on the agenda. Emergency alert. To you regret not sounding the sirens . I do not. That is what he said before suddenly resigning a day later. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and Bianca Nobilo. It is friday, august 18, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In washington, d. C. Where Donald Trumps legal team is proposing a new date for the trial in his federal election sub version case. The date . April 2026. Which is years away. Of course special counsel jack smith is pushing for the trial to start in the january of 1202. This comes on the heels of Trump Calling off the News Conference where he was going to provid
the pentagon working together in hopes of finding more answers as to where it came from and what its purpose was. fox team coverage on the latest development with alexandria hoff in washington and lucas tomlinson outside the white house. lucas: senior white house official this object was not detected after penetrating air space in alaska. yesterday the pentagon would only say when it was detected thursday night and not where. it entered into u.s. air space on february 9th. we sent up aircraft to assess what it was. the decision was made that it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic. the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. lucas: right now helicopters used to rescue airmen, are combing the area off the rugged north of alaska where the object was destroyed by raptor in anchorage. the temperature minus 20 degrees. at the white house john kirby was asked about the nomenclature. shot down near prudhoe bay, enormous 2,000 spy machine the size
and russia and chinese warships on joint maneuvers have triggered a strong diplomatic response from tokyo. on thursday nearly a dozen ships from the two navys were seen transiting international waters together. russian military released this video of what it said on the ships with joint pacific patrol. cnn can t verify these are the same vessels. japan s defense ministry denounced it as a show of force against japan and a threat to its national security. still ahead, a new drone estimate in moscow, just the latest in a spate of drone encounters in the russian capital in recent weeks. we ll have a live report. and plus the u.s. says that it will give the go ahead to sending f-16 jets to ukraine but it will still be a while before the planes are headed there. we ll explain why that is. and she s taking the concert scene by storm. still ahead for you, exclusive data obtained by cnn on just how much taylor swift is on track to
incursions, it s a daily occurrence. they do drones to their advantage that way being able to bring down people or drugs. we can extract the data from the droop and see what kind of surveillance they are using against us and their tactics to try to facilitate that and hopefully capture more of the drone encounters. griff: though, we didn t get the smuggler? correct. it s very rare to see them on the u.s. side. for the most part in mexico flying the drones. it s rare to see them flying on the u.s. side. it s importance to having manpower, boots on the ground to capture smugglers or capturing in this case drones. griff: alicia, this happens every single day. had had that s just incredible and pretty frightening. lieutenant, i have a question, you are talking about the smuggler and not being able to talk the smuggler in one
reports of operators not following rules to stay miles away from airports, now about 200 a month. we went along with the nypd helicopter team as they tracked down a report of an illegal drone. you see this problem getting worse before it gets better? absolutely. it s a huge spike in the drone encounters. you re talking a 737 coming in, they had to alter their course to avoid these things. so that s how serious it is. reporter: u.s. officials are taking this incident seriously. the faa is assisting in the investigation of what may be the first strike of a large commercial jetliner by a drone. david? all right, david, thank you. from washington tonight, special counsel robert mueller s team answering claims from former national security adviser michael flynn. mueller s team responding to flynn s claim that he was essentially tricked into lying to the fbi about his conversations with russia. prosecutors say he should have known not to lie to federal agents. flynn will be sentenced