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human rights and continuing to teach sunday school at his church in his hometown. a person of faith, president carter said he is ready for what comes after his death. jonathan is joining us from georgia with more on former president carters health condition. reporter: the carter center said that former president is moving to home hospice care. his grandson, jason, a former georgia state senator, tweeted saturday. i saw both of my grandparents yesterday, they are at peace, and always th...

this train was almost 1.8 miles long and had 158 cars, 38 cars ultimately had derailed. 11 were containing hazardous material and there were some five toxic chemicals on board, including vinyl chloride. thats the one that has a lot of folks worried right now because even though its colorless and you almost wouldnt know it or sense it or smell it, some can. and that was the one that would have normally alerted people along a path of the train carrying it that youve got a train coming in...

so now heres what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so theres a lot of discussion about how thi...

>> you know, have not gotten invitations recently, mehdi, to get out to iowa. but i was happy to see the dmz finally make a change, and put south carolina first. >> i agree we should have a primary calendar that looks more like america, you are very bold at the time to go to iowa and talk about something other than ethanol. appreciate you, appreciate you show, have a great rest of your sunday night. >> thanks, mehdi. >> tonight, on the mehdi hasan show, a racing black history from our ...

white men. donald trump and parker carlson. >> one quick thing, i know youre about to start your show, i have to say, to be fair to tucker, wouldnt you to pummel ted cruz when you saw him unable to defend his wife after donald trump called her ugly? i mean ted cruz, it is not hard for him to kind of debase and self. >> i agree with you, great to see you as always my friend, great show. best of luck with your new book. we are going to talk about that next week. im looking forward to it,...

the country. when the liberals fight back? will we ever get any real genuine reform from the place? ill speak to new york congressman and sworn member, who is himself a former police violence. and more on that surveillance balloon from china and the sheer it is sea of the response from some republicans. >> good evening. welcome to the show. congratulations on surviving another week in the life of our public. 70s of craziness, mainly from the republican party. mainly, i mean, no words t...

were lives in fear of two privilege white men. donald trump and tucker carlson. >> one quick thing, i know youre about to start your show, i have to say, to be fair to tucker, wouldnt you to pummel ted cruz when you saw him unable to defend his wife after donald trump called her ugly? i mean ted cruz, it is not hard for him to kind of debase himself. >> i agree with you, great to see you as always my friend, great show. best of luck with your new book. we are going to talk about that n...

how did this happen? >> thats an excellent question, katy. the balloon was able to get past our west coast anti-balloon defense system, the seattle space needle, but once it was here, we were able to keep an eye on it with our sophisticated tracking technology of going like this. >> our thanks to "saturday night live" there. there are rising dramatic tensions, however, between the united states and china after a white house decision to shoot down that massive spy balloon. well walk thr...

that would come. and it was handled appropriately. >> and we are now getting a clearer picture of exactly how the u.s. response played out, at last saturday the balloon was first detected in alaska. on tuesday, it relented continental u.s. airspace, which is when the president asked for military options on wednesday, the president ordered the military to take out the balloon as soon as practicable. on friday, the president was briefed on an execution plan, and on saturday the balloon w...

>> oh, man he kicked it down now. he kicked it down. theres two of them. >> there was a shot at that. >> yeah. >> they got it. they got it. >> did you hear the noise? >> they got it. >> did you hear that noise? >> that was a missile. >> wow. >> the balloon was first seen last week saturday over alaska, by wednesday it was over montana, by friday over missouri, and yesterday, over the carolinas. defense department officials told nbc news that it clearly crossed over sensitive sites, inc...