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China balloon incident lends a backdrop to the president of the union speech just a couple of days ago. on my reporting, a lot of people on both sides of the aisle are interested in what he says about china and his tone. >> you know as well as anybody the president right now is making final decisions about whether to run again in 2024. he has one potential challenger in the former president donald trump saying hell run. he posted shoot down the balloon on his twitter like posts as well, of cours...

Hello, everyone, im alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn newsroom. >> im victor blackwell. today the republican-led house voted to remove democrat ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. omar calls it revenge. it passed along a party line vote of 218-211. she faced backlash over her anti-israel comments in the past which were criticized by members of both parties as anti-semitic. before he was even house speaker, republican leader kevin mccarthy promised he would take this step. >> he claimed ...

Even though she was pulled off, it was a partisan vote. >> you have democrats saying it was a tit for tat and it goes back to what happened in 2021 with members of the republican party. marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar in some of the social media posts involving violence that they posted and some conspiracy theories around 9/11. temperatures are high on congress. its a very polarized congress. if you think about mccarthy, his own caucus is polarized so he has to kind of balance the needs an...

Successful pod save america. dan, thank you for being here, my friend. i really -- for those of you who have not read your wonderful, illuminating posts on substack, i highly recommend them. but one of the things that is so eye-opening is your comparison -- well, lessons learned between the last time a democratic white house had to negotiate with republican hostage takers. if you could sort of paraphrase, summarize, the wisdom that you gleaned between 2011 and 2013 as a member of the obama admin...

Training for the ukrainians to actually get brushed up on. but remember the americans also gave a similar reason for not providing the abrams tanks and now they are on their way. >> scott, thank you. george santos telling house republicans to remove him from his two committee assignments until he gets his issues resolved. the congressman is facing calls to resign for lying about his professional experience, education, identity, just about everything on his resume. despite all that, he was stil...

International news about music. for the first time in about five years beyonce will go on a world tour. huge demand. huge intrigue about this. news broke today. she announced it herself. also a test for ticketmaster, which has been under scrutiny for all the problems it had when taylor swift tickets went on sale. an issue that hit congress. there was a backlash online that ranged from angry, irate fans to posts like, this people making memes about how ticketmaster -- youre clearly the problem. n...

Of hundreds of pages of obvious right-wing conspiracy theories, who seems to be a supporter of qanon, the far-right cult, the worshipper of donald trumps figure, was actually some kind of political lefty, and not a conservative at all. now, its true he made some sort of weird trajectory over test, test. course of his life. but republicans and ted cruz of texas push this particular like, just days after he initially condemned the attack on the political violence, sharing a post from a self descri...

Delays in the procurement of specialised machinery and in filling of critical posts are among the reasons for 36,237 patients being on the waiting list for operations in Gauteng public hospitals.

Handcuffed her to that after he finished assaulting her so he could get a few hours of sleep. >> the house matches, the inside of the house matches. she described the car. car matches. >> a lot of things were falling into place, certainly verifying her story. >> they see an ace bandage in hansens car. they notice some gloves. they notice a little hole in one of the posts that they thought couldve been used to put an eye bolt in, thats where she was chained. >> the year was but, turns out, hes go...

Instagram, what you are most concerned about when it comes to disinformation? >> im really concerned with two things. one, this qanon conspiracy can get supercharged here, because as the reporting noted, hes promoted qanon more than 400 times on his own social media platforms. in the week after the last midterms, 50% of his posts either undermined the elections or quoted qanon. that either ties into extremism, which is that the greatest threat for extremism going forward is this narrative. the d...