testimony, let s get live to the white house correspondent kevin corke in the nation s capitol. reporter: rare partnership on capitol hill tonight as members of both parties were talking about progressive democrats, even conservative republicans. they re all demanding answers about how and why the government apparently is snooping on its own citizens without justification or legal authority. that after new revolutions disclosed today revelations disclosed today that your government has collected the communications information of millions of your fellow americans without legal justification including phone calls and text messages. many of which they claim were obtained, by mistake. i lose sleep over the 3.4 million warrantless searches of americans communications. while reports indicate the fbi conducted fewer queries in 2022, it still made roughly 559 searches per day. now the pfizer court found querrey information has already been legally required and is not consi
up about one year later to the senate with his hands very bruised and it is still kind of unclear as to what caused that. the condition of the minority leader remains unknown and we will keep you up to speed as the show goes on. also breaking right now, three police officers in los angeles have been shot in the line of duty after some sort of standoff with a barricaded suspect. a tactical alert has been issued to, which is another phrase for all hands on deck. this happened in lincoln heights which is near downtown los angeles, primarily an asian hispanic area. we are told they responded to a call and someone open fired and somebody involved in a standoff. the police officers were taken to usc medical center, a level 1 trauma center that s good news. we are being told that we don t know exactly what the injuries are and we are being told all three officers are expected to survive. we ll have breaking information on that as well as the show moves on. now to our other top story
the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
extraordinary. and it shows just how well-trained how decisive and frankly how heroic the police officers were as they entered that building knowing that an active shooter was at large and with weapons drawn began sweeping every room in a textbook covering each other, switching positions, never slowing down or hesitating for one moment. go! jonathan: the officers appeared to hear shots from the other level and began sprinting upstairs toward the gunfire. they then close in on the shooter. by this point, already shot and killed six people. and then there s a moment they confront the shooter. [sirens] as we reported last night, three children were killed, all nine years old. and staff members katherine koonce and mike hill. police say the shooter had planned the attack in detail and had legally bought seven weapons. using three to carry out the shooting on monday. we also learn the shooter, audrey hale, was under a doctor s care for undisclosed emotional disorder. hale wa
eric williams and latavia mcgee. the four crossed the border for mcgee to get cosmetic surgery. officials believed they got lost. the cartel gunman opened fire and this video shows them throwing mcgee in a back of a pickup truck and dragging the two men, two of them likely dead to the same truck. the president takes this seriously. the fbi and other agencies have been on top of this from day one. some critics of the biden administration have said the president must now send a message to the cartels, possibly through military action. others argue financial pressure would be a more effective tool. we need to bankrupt them and put them out of business and the people responsible for these murders need to be brought to justice. whatever happens next is clear than ever that the cartels control much of mexico s border. it has the potential to turn into this kind of violent tragedy. jonathan, thank you. standby if you will, i want to bring in marianne ratliff. the biden a