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welcome back to the cnn newsroom, i'm jim acosta in washington on this busy saturday afternoon, and we begin this hour with unsettling new development in the skies over canada. norad says it is monitoring a high altitude airborne object and military aircraft are currently operating in the area from alaska and canada. this follows yesterday's shoot down of another high altitude object, 10 miles off the northeastern coast of alaska near the canadian border. natasha bertrand joins us now. what can you tell us about the latest object? we have to keep underlining and highlighting the poin...

majorities and avoid the shellacking he experienced in 2010. i will speak to michigan democratic congresswoman debbie dingell about the battle for the house and cheri beasley on whether democrats can pull off a surprise in a traditionally red state. jon meacham will join me. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we have breaking news from california where nancy pelosi's husband, 82-year-old paul pill pelosi was attacked with a hammer. he is recovering at the hospital. we are expecting a press conference late they are hour. we will bring that to you live. joining us from ...

Reality. when you look at the protections we give to presidents and former presidents, formally and informally, it makes it really difficult to go after them. i dug into this in the book. a surprising number of developed democracies have in fact prosecuted presidents or former presidents or prime ministers and come out without devolving into civil war. israel, south korea, south africa, many others have done this and they're fine. yet in america we are for maybe good reason or bad, i'll leave it up to the reader, hesitant to do this. >> and you write in your book, we can share this with the vi...

He will push this log down the hill as long as he can because he thinks he is going to get more out of us. look, this administration is getting sick of it but both side understand that all of this is, really in the best interests of both countries. the afghans need under the circumstances and our money to prevent this country from devolving into civil war and we need to have a presence in the region, lilly pads if you will, in afghanistan, small numbers of troops, to stand in the way of a, of a regrowth of terrorism in that country. so at end of the day it will be win-win but the patience of t...