hunt is live with us with the breaking news. good evening, trace. we learned the balloon is just one of a fleet operated by the chinese military. with a significant game of spying on the u.s. in this game, many other countries in many other cases and the balloon shot down by a u.s. fighter jet on saturday was laden with sophisticated equipment to gather intelligence and possibly to transmit that intelligence directly to beijing. the tool package, the equipment package on that balloon, was enormous. we were not able to jam the transmissions. we don t know the extent of the program. as the u.s. navy continues to collect debris from the waters off south carolina where the balloon was brought down, it s emerged that some of the recovered parts were western made and had english writing on them. officials have not pickly name the manufacturer of those parts, but they have said they believe that manufacturer has a direct relationship with the people s liberation army of china.
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so at one day you wake up inh kamala harris is the vice president . how does that happen, youyo wonder? no one will say, but youu can r be sure there s a story there.ef so here s the latest example of unexplained weirdness in the news. mike pence, of all people, has just swooped in to save joe biden. yeso , mike pence, a man so flamboyantly pure he won t have minner with ladies, not his wife. and yet mike pence also hadkp secret documents in his house, just like joe biden that you didn t see tha that coming. it wasn t so long ago thatene pence was on television saying was sure he had no classified documents in his possession. he said that a few times. then just days ago, then mike pence sent his personal attorney to searche sent his fah home in carmel, indiana, fore in classified documents. now, if mike pence didn tnk think he had classified documents, why would he send his lawyer to go look forhe sen classified documents? we can t say for certaihin, but it s
dana: why did the administration let it spend days floating over sensitive military sites? among those pressing the pentagon for answers is montana senator john tester. say yes or no. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes or no? yes. we think we know what they were going to collect, we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we are building our understanding of what capabilities they have. i have a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state, much less the rest of the country. mike: president biden down playing the incident. president biden: it is not a look, it is totally violation of national law, our airspace. once they come in our space we can do what we want with it. mike: we begin with bryan llenas off the coast of south carolina where the salvage operation is moving forward. good morning, bryan. good morning. the f.b.i. says a majority of the chinese spy balloon remains underwater spread out in two separate sections in
and tonight here, the moment, what we witness with rescuers on that pile. ian pannell and marcus moore right here on the ground with me tonight. back in the u.s., the urgent hunt for crucial pieces of that chinese spy balloon off the east coast. tonight, u.s. officials now revealing the balloon was capable of not only conducting surveillance, but monitoring communications, as well. martha raddatz with new reporting. in the u.s., at least four reported tornadoes across multiple states. and tonight, the system now moving into the northeast. rob marciano timing it out. the breaking headline from washington tonight. abc news has learned that former vice president mike pence has now been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing probes into former president trump. pierre thomas in washington. the war in ukraine tonight. and the troubling signs. russia planning a major new offensive. on capitol hill tonight, the major u.s. airline and the acknowledgement, saying, we m