so now here s what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there s a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we re watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. we re waiting for fresh answers about what happened up there, new reaction. china says there might be a further response merited for the united states from our taking this out of the sky over the weekend. today fox news spoke with the gentleman who disclosed that this was up there in the sky without
secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for the russian ambassador to the u.s. be expelled along with journalists. president biden said that wasn t part of the immediate plan and offered this. detaining the wall street journal reporter. let him go. you heard the president say there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. th
potentially swindle more than $5 billion, almost $6 billion in taxpayer money. marc thiessen and ari fleischer in moments. first to david spunt who is investigating this. good afternoon, david. good afternoon. this came as an urgent alert from the pandemic response account ability committee better known as praac, this is a watch damage made up of government officials and government organizations. march will be three years since the government went into a lock down. many businesses survived but in not the same as from before. praac uncovered 69,000 questionable social security numbers that received 5.4 billion and that s just from studying more than 33 million applicants. there were many more. in many cases, the name did not match the correct name and birthday or the number was bogus, not even from the government. still the money went out in many cases. last spring i sat down with michael horowitz, chair of the pandemic response accountability committee and inspector general
cade of the nation s best minds, we begin with gordon chang. go. freeman of new york times he has praised the chinese system. the one party they know how to get things done. while condemning the american system. has he turned out to be right? what is going on in china? well, thomas friedman has been wrong, so has klaus schwab head of world economic forum who said that china was a model for the developing world, they are wrong, we ve seen the fire on the 24th. immediately there were protests, they were not coordinated. people were on the streets. they were on streets protesting covid rules which contributed to deaths in that fire, they said down with xi jinping, and down with the communist party. the mood on the streets in china, is they realize the root cause of the problems is the communist party, the system does not work. and if they thought about it, they would have said, thomas friedman is wrong. mark: yeah, new york times, and cnn, have both praised the communist c
minutes. i had the sour police in texas a gun and set fire to an apartment complex and then shot and killed three residents as they ran out of the burning building. the suspect is also dead. we will have the latest on the investigation. the jerusalem post reports the israeli prime minister is pushing for a meeting with president biden about the u.s. possibly rejoining and trouble getting to the present when he s on vacation. lucas tomlinson live at the white house with more. and israel s equipment of the cia will travel to washington next week hearing a message asking the white house not to rejoin t the nuclear deal on fx news sunday in the former u.s. forces following a question about the deal as i run nuclear deal looks like it s going to sanction relief are provided, what impact will that have on the iranian revolution i think it will get us added to further support and on the line activities across the region. as you mentioned, the report of meeting with president bid