together with you broadcasting balloons. rachel: that s right. if you get a little chilly, i have a heat or here, will. will: is it on? pete: i don t know why you haven t turned it on yet. rachel: because it s been cozy. pete: have you been to the great american ballpark in cincinnati? will: no. never been to cincinnati. pete: never been? will: have you been to cincinnati? everybody acts, like, wow. pete: dial up a diner for will in cincinnati, and you ve got to have chili for breakfast. rachel: that sounds good right now. pete: on noodles. will: let s do a list of american cities by population and find the biggest city you haven t been to. want to do that? i don t think cincinnati is the biggest city we ll find out, let s do the three of us, what s the biggest american city you ve never visited? @. pete: it s going to be a small i know i ve been to all 50 states, multiple times over. will: i ve never been to. pete: i don t know if i ve been to big cities in maine. yes, i
hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
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
back underway. a preview of what to watch for just hours from now. then, a trump insider reportedly flips and says it was none other than the former president himself who ordered top secret documents moved in his florida home. plus, alex jones and the billion dollar consequences of his conspiracies about sandy hook. i will talk with two parents who won in that courtroom today, as the 11th hour gets underway on this very busy wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. the house select committee trying to uncover what led to january 6th in less than 24 hours from what is likely to be their final public hearing. that attack on the capitol was fueled by conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election. and so far, nobody has been held accountable for telling those lies. but this afternoon, in connecticut courtroom, a jury revealed that someone who spreads lies for a living can be held accountable in a big, big way. conspiracy theorists alex jones, wh
those who are impacted by that hurricane as we get through this. and on that note, i wish all of you a very good and safe tonight. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow we have a lot to get to. today, right thing alex jones was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary vicious lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre. in just a few minutes, we will be joined by the lawyer who won that case for the sandy hook families. we will also be talking to the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her races super close, and it s one of a handful of contests that could determine senate control. national democrats understand that, and are making a huge last-minute investment in their candidacy. she will join us live a little bit later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight of donald trump s mar-a-lago document sca