come from. new video appears to show that russian jets spraying fuel on to our american drone before colliding with it, the defense department says it attacked the american drone damaging the propeller and forcing the u.s. to crash the $30 million drone. russia has suggested the video doesn t show the jet contacting the drone but the biden administration says russia is responsible for its unsafe behavior. the video is pretty conclusive about what happened and absolutely just december mates the russian lie about what they said happened or didn t happen and it s pretty darn good evidence when you look at it that that fighter jet hit the drone. it happened about 40 naught camp miles southwest of crimea. the u.s. thinks its unlikely russia will be able to recover the drone and the pentagon took steps to protect information on the drone. the defense department says the u.s. did not ask for apology for the down drone. the u.s. insists it will continue to fly in the air space
you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
four contests in all tonight. hawaii and american samoa also casting ballots. most of the attention focused on alabama and mississippi. late polls in both states showed races too close to call. our exit polls also suggest a fierce competition in both states with conservative support. early exit polling, we ll bring this over for you. here we are in the state of mississippi tonight. voters were asked as they went to the polls. what s the most important candidate quality. you can see more than four in ten republican voters in the state of mississippi today say their number one priority is beating president obama in november. about 20% say they want a true conservative. 20% say strong moral character matters most to them. look at the state of alabama. same question. what s the most important candidate quality? little lower number there about four in ten say the most important thing they want is a candidate who can defeat president obama, a true conservative, strong moral charact
jessica yellin is at the white house tonight with what her sources are telling her. jessica, what have you heard from these differing accounts? reporter: anderson, democratic sources say that bottom line is that the president was schooling the crowd in the room when eric cantor changed his position. all along eric cantor as you have said, the house majority leader, had endorsed doing a deal that did reduce the deficit. and that had some of these vary krause components we talked about. but when he supported the short-term deal which as you ve pointed out the president has made clear he opposes, the president sort of told the entire group that this is exactly what americans think of as washington at its worst, washington catering to the base, catering to politics, putting their own political future ahead of doing important things and taking on the big issues. and that he called on the group to take on this challenge and then called the meeting to an end. no matter how you rea