this is, remember the big scandal under george w. bush about the program monitoring people s e-mails, elon said the federal government is doing that actively in private communication. todd: an eye-opening interview. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. another major focus of the sitdown is musk warning about artificial intelligence and he gives us information on the software he is working on now. jackie ibanez is here. good morning, jackie. jackie: elon musk s candid interview with tucker carlson aired last night. musk called for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence. listen. it s a danger to the public. when you have things that are danger to the public, like let s say, food and drug, that is why we have the food and drug administration and federal aviation administration, the fcc, agencies to oversee what affects the public when there could be public harm and you don t want c
looming over it all the latest and boldest example of chinese spying on u.s. soil. bill: that s the chinese spy craft shot down over south carolina. the military is in the process of recovering debris as we speak. crews combing through search area the size of 15 football fields. they ve already apparently pulled some pieces from the water and taking those to the f.b.i. lab in quantico for analysis. dana: republicans are pummeling the white house to allow the air ship to spend days over military sites. the president, through the national security advisor directed the military to refine and present options to shoot the balloon down immediately. to collect the bull balloon. we took maximum precaution to prevent any intel collection. i was in close coordination with the united states strategic command and we provided counter intelligence messages out of our intelligence shop across the entire department of defense and interagency so that we could take maximum protective m
the latest on the biden administration s response. hey, lucas. before leaving ireland last night president biden spoke to reporters in dublin about the leak of classified information. i ve instructed the department to make sure that they get to the root of why he had access in the first place, number one, and number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which it all occurred. there s no way to predict how long an investigation will take. i don t think it s going to take very long. i think we re getting to the bottom of it quicker. now more leaks of highly classified information has been discovered. u.s. intelligence agencies were made aware of additional four chinese spy balloons in addition to the 4,000 chinese craft that made the odyssey over the u.s. before it was shot down. over a million have top secret clearance, the pentagon is looking how many in addition to the leaker had access to the military s joint wide intelligence communication system better known by
brutal blizzard record through bluff low. president biden approved a disaster designation. 27 confirmed dead in the region around buffalo. i stranded motorists, knocking out power to thousands and trapping people in their frigid homes. the national weather service saying winter storm warnings are still in effect in parts of the state through this afternoon. there is no end in sight and no plan in place so far anyway from the white house as a record number of migrants continue to flood illegally across the southern border. while president biden heads off to sunny st. croix to celebrate his new year. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m julie banderas. dana and bill are off today. jonathan: i m jonathan hunt. border patrol agents are preparing for the daily onslaught to get even worse when the title 42 asylum policy comes to an end. that could happen as soon as today, depending on a decision by the u.s. supreme court. there were more than 16,000 migrant encounte
Beat. The reidout with joy reid starts now. Tonight on the reidout this is embarrassing for the Republican Party. Its embarrassing for the nation, and we need to look at one another and solve the problem. Kevin mccarthy imparting his limited wisdom to the caucus he briefly led as speaker. And with the world in crisis, republicans at this hour are beginning a game of speaker survivor. Were Behind Closed Doors a new batch of speaker wanna bes will be voted off the island one at a time. But we begin tonight with major developments in the middle east. More hostages released as the Israeli Ground assault on gaza looms. The two hostages identified as nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz have been released by hamas. They released a video on their Legram Channel showing the two hostages apparently filmed bere and during their release. Heres a still from that video showing lifshitz, who is 85yes. Here they are, too, in a video shot by the Egyptian State tv network, showing them inside ambulances