dialed in they were listening in and american officials believe the spy balloon was tuned into u.s. conversations. president biden is down playing the entire episode. president biden: it is not a measurable breach. it is a violation of national law. or airspace. we can do what we want with it once it s there. the balloon had multiple antenna to eavesdrop and soak up information. the government wants to know exactly what the chinese heard. until we actually have the hardware that was on that balloon we can t say for sure. we can take educated guesses of it. we can t know for sure. that s why we should have shot it down as soon as it was approaching alaska, china should not be able to send air ships into our airspace. upset lawmakers pressed officials about what the balloon was doing and why the u.s. held off for so long before shooting down the balloon. you can just say yes or no. you don t need to get into specifics. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes
addressing the series of crisis piling up for his administration. president shrugging off the chinese spy flight, low polls, investigations, classified document scandal. sandra: all of that as the nation waits to hear whether or not he will run for office again. how is all of this playing in new hampshire where a presidential challenger could soon emerge. we will be speaking to new hampshire governor about his possible 2024 white house run coming up. john: begin america reports waiting for a briefing from john kirby from the white house, and the pentagon, they have found the payload of the chinese spycraft shot down off the coast of south carolina. new department after state department officials revealed more about the scope and capabilities of the spycraft. i m john roberts in washington. let me say it again, sandra. happy friday. sandra: happy to make it to friday with you, john, details, the american public are going to want to hear. according to the state departme
will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. i m not giving you my private, financial information. that s what the justice department wants. they also want punishment for bannon s bayer. the trial was very simple. it was about, did he show up or did he not, wherever he was subpoenaed. today is about how he has acted throughout this process of the congressional proceedings, of the court proceedings, and the justice department writes throughout the case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety to display to the public the source of his bathe refusal to comply with the committee s subpoena. a total disregar
Top of the hour on cnn newsroom. Im victor blackwell. And im bianna golodryga. President biden is in florida to rally democrats ahead of the midterms. Meantime two major developments in the two separate investigations involving the former president the Supreme Court has just rejected senator Lindsey Grahams request to block a subpoena into the 2020 election in georgia where a District Attorney is demanding that he testify before a grand jury. The Committee Investigating the january 6th insurrection they could be one step closer to getting former President Trump to testify. The committees in discussions with President Trumps attorneys, and he has an obligation to comply and we, you know, treat this and take this very seriously we havent made determinations about the format itself but it will be done under oath, it will be done potentially over multiple days, we have significant questions based on the evidence that we developed and as i said what we know already about the extent to which
hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on