being controlled by the cartels and smuggling drugs. the family of bruce willis revealing he has been diagnosed with ftd, a form of dementia. his condition has gotten first. but first this. president biden: make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people i will take it down. bill: president biden finally breaking his silence. we ve been waiting for ten days on those aerial objects shot down by the military. says the last three do not appear to be connected to beijing or any foreign surveillance campaign. meanwhile a hobby club out of northern illinois fears its silver coated party-style balloon may have been shot down by a side winder missile over canada. the missile costs a lot of money. the balloon not so much. sandra: estimated cost $12 of the balloon. bill: the missile upwards of $4 hundred grand. dana has the day off. welcome, i m bill hemmer. sandra, welcome back to you. sandra: i m sandra smith. president bid
crisis looms. i want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can take control of this runaway spending. all of these officers failed their oath. we need a national conversation about policing. the question is where do we go from here? parents send their kids back to school tomorrow for the first time since that shooting in early january. am i 100% comfortable sending him back? no. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are live in the cnn newsroom. the fate of the u.s. economy may hinge on a meeting this wednesday between president biden and newly elected gop house speaker kevin mccarthy. it has been a little more than a week since the treasury department announced the u.s. government has reached its borrowing limit. if the the debt ceiling isn t raised, the u.s. could start defaulting on its loans. i know the president said he didn t want to have any discussions, but i think it s very important that our whole government s designed to find compro
Cautious and prudent. if the military thought there was a risk, then it is better we shot them down than let something traverse american airspace and find out it was from a foreign country but we need to have a better system to determine what are objects truly dangerous to american security and what objects are more innocent. sandra: shouldn t that plan be in place? the administration confirmed this week that we ve known about china s balloon spy program for quite some time and that it is only growing in nature and posing a bigger threat to us. why weren t the protocols in place to begin with? look, this has gone on for a number of administration essential, not a biden administration challenge but a challenge for the country. there needs to be stronger protocols. what happened with the chinese balloon can t happen again. i think it was of a different order of magnitude when americans saw the balloon going across the country and a wake-up
Has safety protocols, trainings, active smooter training. why weren t the protocols followed in this particular case? and from a liability perspective there could be significant civil liability against the school. there are additional legal hurdles. however, in a case of gross negligence, meaning that the school failed to act, they did not do their due digits, there absolutely could be civil liability in this case. i keep thinking about the shooter. i mean, this little 6-year-old boy. it s so unusual to have a suspect that s so young. what happens to him? yeah, absolutely. well, the criminal justice system really doesn t have isn t really equipped to deal with somebody of this age, and there s reasons for that. generally a child of this age is pretty much protected from prosecution because of several legal threshold issues. one is called an infancy defense, that a child at the age of 6 just doesn t have the capacity to formulate intent in the way that you would have to present th