the senate will get its own briefing later this morning. bill: the u.s. revealing the spy flight was part of a larger espionage program going on for years. china maintains it with as a weather balloon that drifted off course and traveled over sensitive military sites in the u.s. the pentagon says no chance. i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. we re 100% clear about that. we are very confident we ll be able to detect these kinds of capabilities as evidenced by the continuing body of knowledge that we ve been able to build up on this. obviously that s something our intelligence community will continue to work closely on for this and any other potential threats. dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debris. we begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today s briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members e
this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members exit the briefing. they are not talking to our cameras. not telling us exactly what they heard inside but they are being briefed by intelligence, defense and state department officials ten days after this thing actually entered u.s. mainland. it comes as the pentagon reveals the balloon is part of china s massive espionage program run by the people s liberation army based in a province designed to gather intelligence on military capabilities. it is bound of the president gave the order to shoot it down. what was the sequence of event and when was the order given? we want to get as much information as we can get and prevent them from gaining that information and our intelligence community takes it very