tonight. a foreign policy stumble. the biden administration sending two senior officials to china yesterday the exact day the tin men square anniversary. we don t know to this day how many people were killed. recognizing that atrocity still forbidden in china. tom cotton says this official visit sends exactly the wrong message. biden administration officials should stop chasing after the chinese communist counterparts like love struck teenagers. it is embarrassing and pathetic. it projects weakness to china and encourages them to do things like buzz our aircraft or come within a few hundred yards of our ships and encourages them to send spy balloons all over america. john: there has been 0 direct communication between biden and xi since the u.s. shot down the china aircraft in our airspace earlier this year. jake sullivan down playing tensions. the desire on both parts to put a floor under the relationship, to manage the competition responsibly and insure competition do
looking to enter the u.s. in the next few hours. do not risk your life and your life savings only to be removed from the united states. we are making it very clear that our border is not open, that crossing irregularly is against the law. cnn s nick valencia is in brownsville, texas, on the southern border, where officials are working with buses and airlines to try to get migrants out of that city. nick, is that working? reporter: well, we got some clarity from the city, just a short time ago, jake. we asked them where they re going to be sending migrants to. and they said the destinations that migrants are asking to go to and that the city is going to help them get to include chicago, dallas, houston, brooklyn, denver and miami. and though the city is known for quite some time along with the state and really the nation that title 42, this policy is going to end in less than a day, they re still working out the specifics of their plans and things they want to avoid acco
heard the name george santos. oh, we do know him now, though. a wild scene today as the republican congressman caught in lie after lie is arrested and charged on 13 criminal counts. will george santos, aka anthony devulder stay in congress, go on his own or will he be pushed out? plus, taking the stage, donald trump now hours away from facing questions at a cnn town hall one day after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. and following the money. republicans flagging what they call shady deals as they lay out their case against president biden s family, including son hunter. is there evidence behind these allegations? welcome to the lead. we start with our politics lead, and a defiant congressman george santos saying he has no plans to resign despite facie ing 13 criminal charges. santos pleaded not guilty in a new york courtroom this afternoon before facing the news media where he insisted he is innocent. this is the beginning of the ability for
of strikes aimed at southern lebanon and gaza. and we re learning this morning that the idea has mobilized its reserve forces, the latest on this fluid situation. cnn is on the ground important new jobs numbers just in moments ago, 236,000 jobs added, but that is below expectations. the unemployment rate is down to a low, low low 3.5% there are signs that things might be cooling off. expelled in an extraordinary move. tennessee house republicans vote to remove two young black democratic members for protesting on the capitol floor backlash and how republicans are defending it. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central . major retaliatory strike in the middle east is really forces firing rockets overnight hitting palestinian targets in lebanon and gaza. and the i, d f is now ordering the mobilization of reserve forces. israel strikes are in response to the dozens of rockets fired from southern lebanon into northe
pandemic-era policy, set to expire in just under three weeks. new reporting on how the biden administration is getting ready at the border. meanwhile, charges dropped what we re hearing from alec baldwin since prosecutors announced the actor will not face criminal charges for his role in the fatal rust shooting we ll break down the latest push against transgender rights across several states and we ll bring you inside the billion dollar latin music industry breaking records around the world. and we begin this morning with the news that president biden appears to be on the verge of announcing his re-election campaign three sores familiar with the matter tell nbc news the president will make his intentions to seek a second term official next week the tuesday will be four years since he launched his last run to the white house. a new wall street journal poll out this morning gives the president a three-point advantage over donald trump among registered voters. that same