good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let s get straight to cnn s oren liebermann at the pentagon. oren, what more are you learning? i understand you were listening to officials explain how all of this went down. what can you tell us? it started on wednesday when president joe biden gave the authorization to shoot down the chinese balloo n as soon as possible. there were tankers and others to shoot this down. it was an f-22 that fired an a 9 side wind er. the ai
deserves a full pardon? he has a hearing tomorrow. yeah. his hearing is tomorrow. you know, i think that there is hardly any evidence that linked him, if none, you know, to his case. i think that i personally don t believe in the death penalty. i think that everyone deserves at least to have their case fully examined before they re about to be executed. it s just really that simple. i just don t feel like he s gotten a fair chance. the attorney general urged a new trial. the court of appeals denied. that he ll be executed may 18th if nothing changes. this is his ninth execution date. next hour on cnn this morning we ll have much more of that interview with kim kardashian. we ll be right back. a thing of the past. because only tempur-pedic uses our one-o-of-a-kind, incredibly adaptptive tempur® material. to r relieve pressure points and support your body,
a pretty interesting choice and it actually, you know, is kind of unchartered waters in the sort of theory of escalation between powers, right? because this hasn t really happened before and it s a really interesting experiment of sort of how far you can push the envelope and kind of ruffling feathers without putting yourself, airmen at immediate risk. all right. arthur holland michelle, thank you very much for your time. we re all going to be keeping our eyes on this. thanks for your insights. we appreciate it. great to be here. coming up next as i just mentioned, the ground stop issue while the u.s. military shot down the spy balloon has been issued. how this affected commercial air traffic. that s next. because only tempuc uses our one-o-of-a-kind, incredibly adaptptive tempur® material.