and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did. and it came inside our territorial waters. will: so, what is this thing? is this another chinese balloon in the pentagon says they have no clue or they are just playing stupid. can you say definitively it was not a balloon? i don t at this point, considering the fact that we re still assessing the object. i don t want to get into characterizing it. will: so, they are calling it an object. we don t know what kind. an object could literally be anything. they say it was so lynn democratic call in shape. but, also, the size of a chevy malibu. apples and oranges here in terms of size. as i said, this was the size of a small car and it was over very sparsely populated area but also more critically over it was over water. but, it completely different size. the debris field much, much smaller. will: biden wasted no time in shooting down this so-called object.
minute to finish this conversation while they ready. ari is having a little bit of technical difficulty, but will be here at any moment. claire, on the security piece, do you think capitol police retain any veto power if it does what you said it does and jeopardizes the lives of the current members of congress of both parties? i don t think they probably have veto power since they serve at the pleasure of the architect of the capitol and you know, i don t think anybody is going to tell the speaker of the house that he can t release video. i think needs to happen is the american people need to tell kevin mccarthy that you can t just shovel video to a favored outlet and allow them to pick among 40,000 hours and find pieces that will be misleading or tell an untrue picture of what actually happened that day. so the most important thing that has to happen now is first, he has to be spurned for what he did because it s ridiculously bad and stupid, but secondly, people need to
good evening leah, begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right. now it is been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of that continues to rise from hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands. right now at least 21,000 people known to have been killed in other 78,000 insured. because, there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is the casualties there could be far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance, and from a distance it looks one way. but a close, is where the horror and heroism is. it is disaster is happening one person at a time. in this case, one little girl. we don t know her name, she has bought five years, old she was rescued after being trapped for 89 hours. two other girls a life waiting to be freed. small victories, one at a time, from a distance, small lifeboats on a sea of despair from up close the entire world. from a close as well a
facility on a business in northeast syria, two of the wounded service members were treated on site while the other three and the injured contractor were airlifted to coalition medical facilities in iraq, we will bring you more on the breaking news as it becomes available. meantime, president biden s approval rating has taken a hit, matching his lowest every, a key reason appears to be the economy with a closer look at the numbers and what thionine, the white house correspondent kevin cork is live in the nation s capital. evening, trace. president biden is actually on a two day swing through canada where he and the first lady will talk about climate change, the war in ukraine, mass migration from several south and central american countries. back home the president is under water with voters especially in the latest national surveys, that s important while he is yet to announce officially he is running for reelection in 2024, his approval ratings are dipping near their lowes
and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. it was june of 2022, and the venue for the conservative political action conference, cpac. the venue was packed. hundreds of far-right politicians and activists gathered to claim election fraud, to launch attacks against the press, donald trump was one of the main speakers, and he was slated to give a talk on chinese election interference. jason miller was there, trump s senior campaign advisor, and now the ceo of the conservative twitter clown getter. also in attendance, republican mark, green a far-right congressman who voted against the certification of joe biden as president. in a lot of ways, this was just another cpac conference. the main difference was that this one was happening in brazil. months before that country s presidential election. all of the false claims about election fraud, they were dubbed in portuguese. this is the extent to which the maga movement embedded itself in brazilian politics. a relationshi