hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us this sunday. happening right now, more anti-immigration rhetoric from former president donald trump causing reverberation, the white house calling the comments fascist after the former president said this in new hampshire saturday. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve done. they ve poisoned mem institutions and not just? south america or three or four countries, but all over the world they re coming in from africa, from asia, all over the world pouring into our country. cnn s priscilla alvarez is in washington. this is a strong rebuke from the white house. what will is it appeared the president saying? reporter: that s right, fred. the white house saying it s similar to other authoritarian regimes, but the white house slamming the former president for his comments on immigration yesterday. in a statement this morning, a white house spokesperson saying echoing the grotesque rhetoric, and t
shop for people who wanted access to things that they shouldn t have. no one should be in those conditions, wnba star brittney griner speaking out about those ten months she spent in a russian prison. it s her first press conference since returning to professional basketball. hear what she says about the other americans still wrongfully detained. plus, after four hours on the stand, the woman accusing donald trump of rape now in cross examination. what we expect to hear from the former president s attorneys. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. just moments ago we heard from the judge in the hearing from the air national guardsman accused of leaking highly classified intelligence documents. he said he will not yet rule if jack teixeira will remain in custody ahead of his trial. prosecutors claim that if the 21-year-old is let out before then, he will either try to flee or further obstruct the inve
thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it s the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bow little lis is with us. what are we learning about this second object? reporter: this object is still quite a bit of a mystery. what we know is that on thursday the military observed this unknown object in us air space just off the coast of alaska. they sent up military aircraft to get a look at this thing. pilots weren t able to tell a whole lot. they could see it was flying at about 40,000 fe
A preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. The former president s attorney claims a Special Master is necessary to ensure the Justice Department returns any of trumps private belongings and documents covered by Attorney Client privilege. But, the Justice Department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. For now, cnns Political Correspondent sara murray live now, sara, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj . We are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the Justice Department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a Special Master, an independent third party to overview these documents. The Justice Department is saying look, after the search they did on the president s residence in maralago at august, theyve already gone through those materials. Theyve already had a filter team set up to remove any
[ inaudible question ] not in detail at this time, other than what i described earlier, that the this suspect walked in, armed. he was disarmed by a couple individuals. that s that s [ inaudible question ] reporter: chinese new year s events in this area? changes, we ll immediately notify our community through all of you. reporter: the weapon found at alhambra, was that a long rifle? an ar? it was not an assault rifle. thank you. reporter: the events yesterday, with thousands of people, i wonder if there s any safety measures in place before that happened, like what were we doing before that? are you speaking about the lunar new year event? reporter: yes. were you there yesterday? reporter: yes. thousands of people. i had dozens of officers around, some in uniform, some not, tactical officers walking around with long guns. dr drones were overhead. it s impossible to screen everybody for weapons. yesterday was a safe event, primarily because of d