young. i need a recovery beer. it wasn t a recovery beer. but his teammates were waiting for him in the locker room with a nice refreshing water bottle shower. now isn t that how we finish the show every morning, too? yes. that s what i do. totally what we do at 9:01. i never heard the phrase recovery beer but i love that. love it too. thanks for making our morning. you got it. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. don is off this morning. southwest airlines, though, coming under federal scrutiny as officials are vowing to hold the company accountable for the meltdown that has left thousands of passengers stranded. more flights have been canceled today and the chaos is expected to continue into the new year. also overnight, the supreme court handing a victory to 19 republican-led states as they order title 42 to remain in effect for now. she said she thought her daughter was going to die overnight because it was so cold. t
day-to-day. all right, welcome to cross connection everyone. i am tiffany cross, and you just heard a little advice from former president barack obama. as president biden is hitting the campaign trail, trying to convince voters that the democratic party can t help. because trust me, they need more money. it does not mean more problems. people can definitely use if you are going to the bank. account inflation and the economy are at the top issues that fish voters care about. but listen, abortion rights, immigration, and protecting our democracy are all on the ballot to. so if you don t think you impact politics, believe, we politics definitely impacts. you get in that game and by all means. good morning, it. tiffany thank you for having. we every time you re on the show. we have so many things to talk, about not a lot of talk. time silica get off, you have seen a lot of the republican attack ads and i think there are some bad faith efforts out there to pin the economy on t
reporter: yeah, i just returned from the chinese foreign daily briefing and i asked the spokeswoman several questions about this spy balloon. and she did not reject the pent gone officials remarks, but gave a rather vague response saying we are aware of reports of the balloon and are trying to understand the circumstances and verify the details of the situation. i d like to stress that before it becomes clear what happened, any deliberate speculation or hyping up will not help the handling of the matter. china is a responsible country, we act in accordance with international law and have no intention of violating other country s air space and hope relevant parties will handle the matter in a cool handed way. so this muted response gives some credence to this analysis by some american experts that the revelation was deliberate on part of some of the u.s. officials ahead of the blinken visit to put the chinese on the
kaitlan, beijing s response is to defend its own decisions. this was at a press briefing when the ministry accused western countries for hyping up and distorting covid changes. this is what the foreign ministry said, quote, we need all parties to work together, scientifically against the epidemic to ensure the safe movement of people between countries maintain the stability of the supply chain and promote healthy growth in the world economy. china believes the measures taken to prevent the epidemic, should scientific and moderate. the irony here is that since the start of the pandemic china has had the strictest border controls in the world. but now that the country is abandoning zero covid, opening up and cases are surging, other cou countries are getting nervous.
much stra teejry to what the president is doing here. clearly someone was buzzing in his ear or he s responding to cable news, probably all of the above. you mentioned a number of different factors here. i think this is a president that s clearly frustrated about something. almost all of this is baseless. almost none of it is true. you know, including some of the topics that weren t focused on immigration. so i think these are more rants from the president, and as you said, you know, republicans and frankly some democrats in congress have just stopped bothering to respond. it s not worth it. i do wonder you brought up the midterm elections. i m sure republicans are going to try to pull out, you know, their same bag of tricks on division over the question of immigration and hyping up, you know, things that aren t very true. but i wonder how much this kind of behavior will be tolerated if the stock market continues to decline. the president has been standing on one leg, and that s a st