origins and the handling of the trumpet russia collusion claims. now it is time for the people that have consequences for their actions. jonathan: chief among the speakers, democratic congressman adam schiff. it raises a lot of questions about his, adjust his character, his standing inside of congress and whether he should even be in congress. jonathan: the congressman on the other hand dismisses the durham report and its finding of fbi feelings and bias. this is investigation that started in a fraud manner. it was conducted in a flawed manner and its conclusion is a flawed conclusion. it began a flawed way because this was the result of donald trump battering bill barr to investigate the investigators. jonathan: separately, republicans congressman jim jordan is demanding answers from cia director william burns over the letter sent by 51 former intelligence officials downplaying the hunter biden laptop discovery as possible russian disinformation. former director
And Briefing Materials on topics including ukraine, iran and the u. K. All of this at the center of a Special Counsel investigation. Lets get right to cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, who is following all of this. Evan, what more can you tell us about these classified documents that were found . Not always a good thing whenela saturday. Not always when you fix a statement that was provided a day earlier. What the white house is now confronting, they have had to explain multiple times in the past week about the finding of these classified documents. And a lot of it, frankly, theyve known about the documents since at least december, that there were additional documents they chose not to disclose it. What we know is there was an additional five pages of classified documents, that they were found in the president s home in williamington. Thats in addition to one document they had disclosed just yesterday. And the issue for the white house is that now were talking about around
evening. hi, bill. reporter: hey good morning good evening to you two sisters as well as their friend all disappeared in mexico after crossing two weeks ago as you mentioned to go to a flee market to sell some clothes let s take a look at photos right now this is 47-year-old perez rios her older sister 48-year-old marina perez rios and friend dora alise none of them seen or heard from since february 24th again two weeks ago when they crossed into mexico. as you look at more photos of these women we ll tell you pd confirms us to families are in touch with them that families are worried would these women he been potentially kidnapped somewhere in mexico. local police department says they did contact the fbi. the fbi telling fox news they are aware of these missing women. they are investigating but cannot comment at this point in time an the local police here saying women last seen wearing green 1996 chevy siffled rad doe with texas plates and talk about where they crossed where
top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat
i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. we re hours away from president biden s state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the president s left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. he s expected to talk about lowering inflation, improving infrastructure and getting past the worst of the pandemic. he s also expected to talk about america s stand against china. of course just days after an american fighter jet shot down one of its supply balloons. the president will likely increase the urgency for congress to act on policing reform and an adult weapons band. all of it will be a test run for his re-election bid. phil mattingly is with us now. what more should we expect from the president tonight? you know, vict