about republicans looking into his corrupt son hunter. the public isn t going to pay attention to that, they want these guys to do something. the only thing they could do is make up things about my family, it s not going to go very far. jeanine: but in reality there is bipartisan support to look into the slimy first sodden. 61% support an investigation. then there s that giant chinese spy balloon we just learned some startling new details. the spy craft contained multiple antennas that were capable of collecting communications. but apparently biden thinks it s no harm, no foul. have relations now between the u.s. and china taken a big hit no. no. how do you know? i know, i talked to them. i talked to xi jinping before and talks with other people, i didn t talk to them during this. jeanine: president biden downplaying his document to scandal the only way he knows how, by throwing his staff under the bus. dave informed me not to speak of this issue and to anyway
federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we re live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. the truth is i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. by the administration s logic, we would allow the chinese to fly surveillance balloons over the pentagon or other sensitive sites near populated areas. as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i m not going to. i want to bring in nbc s ryan nobles who s on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplomatic c
between trump and aj tish james. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? i think. is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong, but the answer is, yes, i do understand it. i don t know what i did wrong. donald trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats some of the same many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we ve heard from him for years now, that he s the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor, blah, blah, blah. here s a snippet. this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. the there has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed, and in every other way unfairly treated like president donald j. trump. not anything we haven t heard before from the ex-president but what happens next is. here s trump repeatedl
we ll get access to all thei money, starting monday more details in just a moment. then, empty words from mik pence, he wants history to hol donald trump accountable for january 6th, but refuses t testify against the ex president. and then, two gop le committees are on the ropes, but me moments ago, treasury secretar janet yellen released statement along with the federal reserve in the fbi and see on this silicon valley bank saying, quote depositors wante access to all their mone starting monday, march 13th, and no losses associated wit the resolution of silico valley bank will be borne by the tax perry. this means that the taxpayer will have access to all th money starting tomorrow also announced it you are seein future bank was closed, and deposit is there would also be made whole the rapids demise of silicon valley bank, began with th surprise announcemen wednesday. you need to raise over two billion dollars to keep up its balance sheet, within 24 hours depositors had with
markings to federal investigators, who also informed agents that it had been electronically copy to a laptop of a current trump aide. abc news learned, after the information was recovered, federal agents retrieved the laptop from the aid. the laptop was not retrieved on mar-a-lago grounds, the sources say. cnn tonight says, in addition to the folder, which was entitled, classified evening briefing, trump s team also handed over an unknown number of classified documents. it also reports, the aid, and owner of the laptop works for the save america pack. they copied the documents onto a thumb drive, and laptop, not realizing that they were classified. the phone drive, also, reportedly, given to investigators. i should say, nbc news has not re-confirmed this reporting. it is customary for us, and is reviewed circumstances such as this. for the first time, it raises the questions of classified materials, electronically, by trump in his inner circle. it is found in trump s possessi