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by energy companies to forcibly install prepayment metres in homes. thousands of people join pope francis, and other christian leaders, to pray for unity and justice at the mausoleum of south sudan's founding father, john garang. welcome once again. the us has shot down a chinese surveillance balloon that it says has been spying on key military sites across america. the department of defense confirmed its fighterjets brought down the balloon over us territorial waters on the east coast. we can see that moment in these pictures from our partners cbs in the united states. we can see th...

little confidence in our government implying, why should they? the biden team's retort that beijing violated protocols. the trump administration maximum pressure campaign widely reviled by the left. supporters of it say the point was to enforce respect in order to gain results. there will long be a debate about how well it worked but what we are witnessing tonight was not seen during the trump administration with if anything was accused by domestic political enemies of closing up too much to tyrants from beijing and moscow. the biden administration's posture towards iran and hardenin...

There was barack obama. a lot of people, democrats and republicans can acknowledge now he was extraordinary. he was extraordinarily talented, he was sort of intouch with where the party was heading. is there an obama in the field? >> no. that's on purpose i think. there's a set of ideas. the problem we face as a country is not reducible to individual personality, it's reducible to ideology, a way of governing so folks want to turn the corner, do something different. are we going to be backward or forward looking, that's the choice the democratic party is facing. >> does your reporting show tha...

T optics of it. it is unknown and i think it is not clear whether he's going to try to take that hard line or whether he's going to do what he's done in the past and befriendb be friendly towards vladimir putin. i am sure he's been thinking about this for a long time and be prepared. >> great to see you both. happy 4th weekend to you. hope you get to enjoy time with family and friends. coming up, allison griner is joining me. take a listen. there is not enough burden here in kentucky to make those requesting sensible, not on my watch are we going to be releasing information relating to the p...

I've been involved in several of these, where the gcm has turned around the recommendation, in both directions, judge. it's all because we're an organization that's under the chain of command. ultimately it's the commander that decides. but to your point, what disturbs those of us who served and all the veterans watching this on television, is not so much the legal niceties of it all. it's the optics. you know, the thing that defines a soldier's service is his willingness to lay down his life for his buddies. we call this the band of brothers effect. there's so much about the optics of this th...