in america now. there s an extremist movement, does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. the maga movement. they are willing to violate the u.s. constitutions at levels never seen before in order to win this election. we must be stronger, more determined and more committed to saving american democracy and maga republicans are destroying american democracy. no, i m not a threat. i will save democracy, the threat is crooked joe biden. john: any moment now, more than a dozen states could join colorado in removing biden s rival from the presidential ballot. jacqui: i m jacqui heinrich, in for sandra smith. the battle for the white house quickly a race to stay on the ballot as democrats across the country push to block americans from having the opportunity to vote for former president trump. president biden says there s no question donald trump supported an insurrection, his administration is refusing to weigh in on the legal aspect saying we are not involved i
georgia, where the former president lives just ahead. but first tonight to east palestine, ohio, where a train derailment and toxic chemical spill have residents and lawmakers demanding answers about the safety of the air and drinking water. garrett tenney is live in that small ohio town near the pennsylvania border. garrett. reporter: yeah, jon, it s now been more than two weeks since that train derailment, and a lot of people here are still feeling sick despite officials saying the data shows the air and water are safe. and these are just the short-term symptoms from chemical exposure with. what is even more concerning for a lot of folks here is the long-term effects, what things could look like 10-15 years down the road potentially as a result of this disaster. i think we coneed to be concerned about the long-term effects of exposure to this chemical. back in 20 the 12 is the there were hundreds of people who went to the e.r. in the aftermath of that train derailment
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
the president says he is ordering new rules to track and monitor such devices. we he have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon on more on what the defense department knows and does not know about what is in the skies. first up, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich with the president s message. good evening, jacqui. hey, good evening, mike. president biden revealed the three objects shot down since friday were most likely tied to private companies or research institutions. but he defended his choice to blast them out of the sky following chinese spy balloon. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazard to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. critics watching the president s remarks say he missed a golden opportunity to drive home the threat about china s spy program. in the last several weeks. i have been informed this is a program that our country has kno
month or so of the exposure. but again, the long-termfects do take years, sometimes decades to actually occur. reporter: norfolk southern railway has promised it will be here for the long haul to make things right, and curl his visit to the area this weekend during his visit this weekend, the railway ceo reiterated that commitment. the has been devastating to this community. and i want to make sure you understand i am terribly sorry that this happened to the community. norfolk southern is fully committed to doing what s right for this community. reporter: city and state officials say so far norfolk southern has done everything that they ve promised to, but they acknowledge this is going to be the a very long road ahead and if at any point the railway tries to back out, there is going to be lots of legal action against them. jon? jon: garrett tenney live in east palestine, ohio. garrett, thank you. selena zito joins us now,