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>> now, santos was completely denying the allegations. he also was making a reference to the fact that this prospective staffer who is a former reporter made some audiotapes, recorded conversations with santos and then leaked them. but this is just the latest serious allegation in a long string of allegations against the embattled congressman. >> a long string that keeps on getting longer. melanie, thank you. it is the top of the hour. just a short time ago the pentagon defended the president's choice to delay shooting town a suspected spy balloon from china. a fight jet brought it down satu...

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Going straight to the active runway, in this case runway 4 left. and i'll bring it to a stop here. so, the -- while -- if you listen to the audiotapes, you can hear first officer, which is the pilot who normally works the radios, actually saying, clear kilo culture 3-1 left and they were crossing 4 left. and on the map and on the ipad which all airline pilots have access to them, we have the chart saying it is clearly going to be the wrong runway. but incidents do happen, we're humans at the end of the day. >> but how common -- >> there are markings everywhere to minimize these kinds of incide...

Challenge. >> why? >> because a lot of people thought we'd lose it. >> lot of people saw this, as a referendum on whether it's okay to protect your property, and protect your life. you don't see it that way? >> not this case, not these facts. >> but to prove murder, in the first degree, the state would have to show that byron acted, not just with excessive, unreasonable force but, also, with premeditation. and while the defense may have had a lot of townspeople on its side, the prosecution had something else. a piece of evidence, they felt, would sway any juror to see byron smith, not as a fea...

Safety, affordability. and the intersection between all three issues. >> you know, it strikes me that a number of other topics have creep into this race. and, you know, there is been a lot of talk about the rise of antisemitism and the rise of extremism. and it was here in los angeles that banner hanging over the 405 with overtly anti traumatic messages. were you surprised to see this kinds of hate speech popping up in the city here. >> well, actually, there have been numerous incidents of antisemitism. i think that was the most graphic because it was hung over the freeway, but prior to that t...