up for discussion as well. but that same official played down the idea that a broad range of deliverables would come from this trip. the two days that secretary blinken is spending in high stakes talks marks the highest level american to visit china since president biden took office. keep in mind, the visit was already delayed once. that was after the chinese spy craft was detected roaming over the u.s. president biden this weekend called that air space intrusion silly. i don t think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. i think it was more embarrassing than it was intentioned. so i m hoping that over the next several months i ll be meeting with xi again and talking about legitimate differences we have but also how those areas we can get along. reporter: the taiwan strait is likely not one of those areas at present. the white house recently acknowledged that china secured a spy base in cuba, back in 2019. president biden has
the country s interior ministry said one of the dead in yesterday s shooting is the head of the institute of musicology of charles university faculty of arts, lenka hlavkova, adding that three of the injured faculty of arts. this is the scene where we expect the police news conference very closely turn shortly. lenka hlavkova was at the head of the institute of musicology. tow killed in the shooting are foreign citizens one from the netherlands and two from the uae. all the deceased were czech nationals. the shooting happened in the heart of prague as the gunman opened fire at charles university s faculty of arts in the city s old town a major tourist attraction. authorities evacuated staff and students, who were told to stay put and lock themselves inside classrooms. as you can see from these pcictures some climbed on to rooftops and window ledges to escape the gunfire. police said the gunman was a 24 year old student who s been named by local media as david koz
conference in germany. this is an important moment, a critical moment in the fight in ukraine. western allies are meeting and have been there to hammer out the latest plan to support ukraine now and support ukraine going forward. a key point of contention right now is germany s refusal so far to supply ukraine with tanks that it said are necessary to win against russia. tanks are not part of the latest aid package that was just announced by the pentagon. a very big package, though. $2.5 billion for ukraine. that does, however, include striker armored vehicles for the very first time. we re going to stand by and going to this press conference any moment. oren liebermann is standing by at the pentagon. what are we expecting to hear. reporter: one of the things that we could hear from lloyd austin is a thank you for everything that countries have provided. the u.s. on the front foot here with a just announced yesterday $2.5 billion package. the second largest the u.s. has ev
the top american spy, covertly travels to ukraine to share what the united states knows about russia s spring battle plan. the cia briefing comes as allies meet today to discuss new military aid and ukraine pleads for tanks. plus, the new special counsel is just getting started. but president biden lays down a marker. i think you re going to find there s nothing there. i have no regret, i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it s exactly what we re doing. there s no there there. today is the halfway mark of the biden term and the classified documents probe a cloud over his re-election ramp-up and nikki haley says why not me. she comes oh so close to announcing her 2024 presidential run and takes aim at a potential rival, swatting away the notion she plotted to boot mike pence from the 2020 ballot. were you trying to get mike pence off that ticket? no, and, you know, pompeo even says he s not sure if it s true. it s really sad when you re havin
The possibility of issuing himself a pardon. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, september 15th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with Tens Of Thousands of United Auto Workers hitting the picket lines. The union officially went on strike against detroits big three auto makers at midnight. Nearly 13,000 members walked out of three plants in missouri, ohio, and in michigan. The strike is against general motors, ford, and stellantis. The union and the companies failed to reach a deal on a new collective Bargaining Agreement before the current contract expired at the stroke of 12 00. Tonight for the first time in our history we will strike all three of the big three at once. We are using a new strategy, the stand up strike. We will call on select facilities, locals, or units to stand up and go on strike. This strategy will keep the companies guessing. It will give our National Negotiators maximum leverage and flexib