you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across america s skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. cnn has team coverage of this very tense moment in u.s./china relations. i want to start with warren lieberman who is over at the pentagon. what are you learning about the recovery effort that is gong on? i say sum that officials want to get their hands on it as quickly as possible. absolutelily. but the debris, what was left of the payload, the length of three school buses has fallen in 47 feet of water.
hard to erase female athletes. and later, more shocking video d from the breakdown of lawca s and order in america s major cities. it s happening everywhere, every place, every day. take a looplace,k. s mr. now, as mr. rogers usedegular to say, just a regular day in ht the neighborhood. not really. this has to end now.o en bau re not going to believe how bad these far left has nows become. it is getting worse every day.o and we ll have more in a moment. but first, for many, today t days represents one of the worst days of the year. it is the official deadline today because the 15th weekendoi to file your taxes this year, you, the american people, youe e have already forked over more money to the federal government than ever before in history. even if resnow, even if you ren a deep blue city, in a deep vas t mablue state, the vast majorit of your tax dollars being sent to the washington sewer and swamp, the average american household is now forking overo almost thirty seven
steve bannon, he s in a federal courtroom right now about to be sentenced for defying a subpoena from the january 6 congressional committee. earlier this year, a jury convicted bannon, you remember, on two counts of contempt of congress regarding this insurrection investigation. and defying that subpoena. this comes also at a really interesting moment. when everyone is also standing by for that committee, the january 6 committee, to formally issue a subpoena to donald trump himself. let s get to washington. cnn s sara murray is live outside of the federal courthouse are bannon is listening to his sentencing right now. what are hearing is happening inside of the courtroom right now? reporter: that is right, kate. the judge just ran through the factors that are at play here and just hasn ted down the sentencing. steve bannon is sentencing to four months in prison. now it is four months for each count but will run concurrently so that is four months as well as a 650$65,000 fin
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attempt to overturn a free and fair election. we saw stunning new images of officers desperately calling for backup as they were attacked by the rioters. there were also several new revelations from members of trump s inner circle in their testimony. his former attorney general bill barr detailed how he told the president his election fraud claims were b.s. trump s own daughter, ivanka trump, testifying that when she heard that she believed barr, and the committee vice chair, republican liz cheney revealed that multiple republican congressmen including scott perry sought presidential pardons for their roles in trying to overturn the election. cheney had a stark warning for members of her party. tonight i say this to my republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. there will come a day when donald trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. capitol hill police officers who were attacked, wounded by the rioters watched the proceedings in distress, some you ca