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
Taiwan roc by its strongest earthquake in people trapped in a Highway Tunnels as aftershocks shake the island. And rare apology from israel after it strikes a convoy of food trucks in gaza, killing humanitarian aid workers. The military says it was an accident, but cnn and analysis is raising some serious concerns. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn newsome the prosecution is now laying into the judge in the Trump Classified documents case Special Counsel jack smith is Questioning Judge Aileen Cannon Understanding of the case in a new filing suggesting that shes tilting the case in Donald Trumps favor. Now, this isnt the first time that smith has taken issue with the trump appointed judges handling of the case . But this is his most bluntly worded pushed back, yet lets break it down with cnn, chief Legal Correspondent paula reid. Paula essentially, jack smith is arguing that judge cannon is totally disconnected from the facts of
Central new street journal poll president ial poll out this morning shows donald trump, lean President Biden, in six of seven swing states. The exception here is wisconsin. Biden holding a tight lead. There at all its also worth thousands of progressive voters used last nights president ial primary two protest bidens handling of israels war against hamas or the 45,000 voters picked uninstructed on the ballot. And that is more than twice the margin that biden had when he won the state back in 2020. Last night, President Biden came out also with some of his harshest words yet toward israel criticizing israel over the deaths of seven world central Kitchen Aid Workers. They were killed in israeli airstrike in gaza. He shared those frustrations also with a small group of Muslim Community leaders during a meeting at the white house last night. It wasnt enough to keep one Palestinian American doctor from walking out in the middle of the meeting in protest arlette saenz, is that the white hous
and something that the wta can point to as they try and bring about this goal of equal prize money. but the wta chief executive knows that there will be criticism in some quarters, although the players have either been supportive or not spoken out against it for the most part. he knows he will have to justify his decision and his argument is that by going to riyadh, tennis is supporting growth and improvement and change across the region. staying with tennis news. third seeded dan evans is out of the atp tour event in marrakech. the british player and world number 42 was beaten in straight sets by the defending champion roberto carballes baena. the spaniard moves into the quarterfinals. rafael nadal has withdrawn from the upcoming monte carlo masters where the 22 time grand slam winner was expected to make his atp tour comeback. writing on the social media platform x, nadal said, unfortu nately i have to tell you that i am not going to be playing in monte carlo. my body si
files with disclose information about afghan and iraqi operations by the us, place lies it risks. we are judged by nomia iqbal. there was about the agreement. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hazarded? his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned this bridge that the american it was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks military history. wikilea ks released military history. wikileaks released more than 90,000 classified military documents on the afghanistan war and also released more than 400,000 secret documents on the iraq war and he has long been accused of putting american operatives lives at risk. as you mention, almost all the charges that he faced were under the espionage act and he won t spend any time in the us, once again, the plea, expected to be finalised later this week, because it is roughly equivalent to the amount of time that he