bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
aishah hasnie has the latest from capitol hill. on thursday, every lawmaker in the house and senate will get a classified briefing from defense, intelligence, and state department officials on the chinese spy balloon. 10 days after it entered the mainland. house leaders already filled in. it s very power of attorney that we do capture it, to find out what s on it. find out what they are doing. new images show the navy working around the clock to recover the rest of the downed aircraft as china s dirty secret is out. this is what we assess as part of a larger chinese surveillance balloon program. the pentagon reveals china s espionage program is run by the people s liberation army and based in the hay man island province designed to gather intelligence on military capabilities. when you look at the scope of this program and the fact that we know that these balloons have been spotted in what we now can assess to be chinese balloons operating over at least five