dereliction of duty. what began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon, testing president biden s strength and resolve. unfortunately, the president failed that test. i think this entire episode telegraphed weakness to xi and the chinese government. this is all about china testing the american resolve. they know that tensions are escalating. they want to see what kind of leadership we have. no, the president failed on this one. let s talk about all that transpired on this over the weekend. with us now, our cnn national correspondent and our political and national security analyst. he is also the white house and national security correspondent for the times. good morning to you both. we ll get to the blame game in a moment. it does matter. there are real questions that the biden administration has to answer. the wall street journal editorial board calls this a trial balloon over montana, right? but where does this put us, david, big picture? u.s.-china relations. . a fe
every sunday votes, rain, snow, sleet, shine, she loves biden. the classified documents, you know the whole thing. then you read what the democratic party leaders say and just a disconnect. i just want to know what is real. that s been how we that s why the presidents he s defied logic for most people at least. thank you, ben. appreciate it. history made several times last night s grammy awards. did you watch? no. did you watch? i was sneezing. did anybody here go? i don t know. chloe is here. she has a recap. we got to talk about it. whose night? b beyoyonce s night. i m greatful.
if you watched the grammys last night you know it was a soulful tribute to whitney houston. one performer there still too shaken up to sing and we ll talk about all the winners from last night. a massive budget battle. an election preview. it seems to be. the president is unveiling his final spending plan before the 2012 election today. and you know what, it s mot even delivered to capitol hill and the gop is already on it. what are they going to say about it and how do we know this will be the preview of the general election campaign? and lin han sanity. look at this guy. knicks new sensation, jeremy lin, making headlines on the other side of the globe as well. keep your eyes on that one. this is one of those sensations that just sort of came out of know where. did you know about him before they wrote about him this weekend. never heard a thing about him. i don t know a lot about basketball. i do. i couldn t believe i didn t know this guy. wait until you hear
an hour before her death by someone in the very hotel room where she died, according to ed winter, the assistant coroner here. the person left the room and then came back about an hour later and found whitney houston s body inside the bathtub. and then ed winter said her body was removed from the bathtub. they tried to revive her. they coop revive her. of course, at 3:55 a.m. pacific time she was pronounced dead. as you know, you had been covering these beats when stars die, when people die. they want to do toxicology reports. and usually they have some sort of idea just from doing the autopsy which, by the way, has been completely. they might have an idea or a suspicion about how that person died. but using the toxicology reports, that s the final word. and i pose that question to ed winter a short time ago during a briefing. and i spoke to him afterwards, as well. here s part of our conversation at the briefing. and i ll tell but our conversation afterwards toxicology repor