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wednesday over at the office of direct tofr of national intelligence. >> phil mattingly at the white house, thanks so much. we're getting brand new information including the object flew through u.s. sensitive sites. kylie atwood joining us now. what else does the memo say? >> this was a memo sent to lawmakers today. what it is saying according to the pentagon is the object that wu downed over canada was a small metallic balloon that had a payload beneath it. that was the object that is said to have traveled over sensitive u.s. sites before being downed. that's concerning because we don't know if it had collection surveillance capabilities on board. this memo also said that the object that was down over lake huron on saturday descended slowly into the water after it was shot. this memo that was gathered by my colleagues jeremy herb and zach cohen is giving us some of
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legislative form for 30 years. they attempted tofr step of the way to stop that's our background check system. so it says a lot that they are trying to revise history and say they don't comment on things like this. of course they do. what they're afraid of is the reality that their talking points that gown violence in this country has nothing to do with firearms, that a good guy with a gun is all that it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun have been proven wrong. but for the american people, i this i we see with this framework that it has. the devil is in the details. we all need to continue to lift our voices but it's a big victory for gun violence prevention and the movement that's about the american people and wanting to be safe in public spaces and dropping our kids at school. this is a parents and kids almost as much as it is about anything else. >> let me ask you about the
some explosives on board and destroys the target down below. the u.s. is now going to send some more of a similar kind of drone to the ukrainians. getting to them with the goal of them being fielded in the flex several weeks. but press secretary john kirby, when i asked him a little bit more about what exactly they're hoping to accomplish from this meeting next week with these chiefs of defense and these defense ministers in germany, he said it's largely about somewhat ukraine needs now and going forward and how they're going to fund it. here's what he had to say. >> we certainly want to hear from ukraine and from other nations about what they're doing in terms of immediate defense assistance and how that might change as the fighting there changes. but i think he he also wants to take a longer, larger view of the defense relationships that ukraine will need tofr going forward. >> defensive systems also includes the radars the u.s. is providing to them. that is anti-artillery. it will hopefully give the ukrainians the ability to hone in on where the russian
september and into early december. everything is yelling joe manchin, he has tofr police protection because people are so crazy going after him when he's been saying crazy going after him. he's not a tweeter, he's a legislator and has told them where he stood. so people are shocked? this is not on manchin. this is on the democrats that have set unrealistic from the start. >> they seemingly don't appreciate that point because of the various complexities. he has tried to be clear but everyone is setting their own timetable. so schumer is saying this and the basis is, no, that's not
2024 candidates and what they might have tofr. he said the biggest question what people might need to ask, including trump himself, is if he would be the guy to win in 2024. >> meanwhile we keep learning about 2020. you're out with a new profile by stephanie grisham and the headline is striking, i was part of something unusually evil. she's doing a lot of press and confessing to her sins in the trump white house. it was striking to hear her use the word evil. what was the context for what she said? you flew out to kansas to see her. she really opened up to you. >> keep an eye on the midwest tour. i did. i flew to kansas, spoke with her there. she was with the trump from washington, d.c. where she maintained her high-level position back to kansas where she purchased a house. so i think it was maybe something about being in that setting, somewhere she kind of found refuge over the past year
also movement in the concrete floor slab on the north and the south corner of the building to cause additional failure tofr -- of the building, and the big point of concern is that there is a big column hanging from a structure that is still standing, and it had moved 6 to 12 inches and if it were to fall, it could bring the rest of the building down, so structural engineers told the rescues to stop working and evacuate the area, and so that is what they did. again, no timetable right now in terms of when they might be able to go back out there and continue the work, but for the families of those who were still unaccounted for, this is a devastating setback. geoff. >> yeah, it is heartbreak on top of heartbreak. ellison, what can you tell us
control for number two decades. in florida a recount under way in key cases there ahead of thursday's deadline and tensions continue to flare prompting a judge to urge both sides to, quote, ramp down the rhetoric. theres a lo tofr we want to din with dan simon who is live in that devastated town of paradise, california, in northern california, with more of these developments. dan? >> reporter: good morning. there was fear at the very beginning that there was going to be a very high death toll with this fire given the fact that it came in so fast and you have a lot of elderly retirees who live in the town of paradise. well, here we are 42 people dead and we know that there are going to be at least 150 more search and recovery crews today looking for bodies. they are also going to be aided by cadaver dogs. there is the grim task of trying to identify these bodies. we know that many were just so badly burned that they can't be recognized so they are asking
she's been in communication with the special counsel. >> oh, i have plenty. >> anything mueller would like to see, mr. robert muler? >> if his office calls again, anything they want, i'll share. >> reporter: today is the day that that book is actually released. omarosa is not going away quietly. she has several television interviews scheduled for today, and we will see what else president trump has to say about all of that. erica? >> abby, appreciate it. thank you. also want to get to this breaking news this morning, a new cnn poll just being released shows two thirds of americans want special counsel robert mueller to wrap up his russia investigation before the november midterm elections. and for the first time, president trump's approval rating is higher than some of his predecessors at this point in their presidency. david chalian joins us with those new numbers. david, good morning. >> good morning, erica. let's look at tofr all approval rating at 42%, disapprove 53%. this is remarkably steady for months. couple points higher than it was
the uproar over his performance at their summit on monday. >> all right. finally, here's an image you're not going to forget any time soon. it is a face mash courtesy of "time" magazine. i'll let you figure out who the two faces are. you're welcome. all right. as presidents trump and putin stood side by side on monday, the president made an tofr allow special counsel robert mueller to question 12 russian intelligence officers charged with hacking democrats in the 2016 presidential election. a number of americans including former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfoul. an incredible offer but after a criticism that he would consider such a move, in fact, some from his own party, the white house rejected putin's proposal. one of the men on putin's list, jonathan winer, a former deputy, he joins me now. jonathan, great to have you with us. i want to first of all get your reactions, sir, to what was it